News

  • Rebecca Bilkau has recently been shortlisted for both the Sentinel Poetry Prize and the Plough Poetry Prize.

    [13-Feb-14 ]


  • Joan McGavin has been selected to be the Hampshire Poet for 2014. She will also be involved with the Winchester Poetry Festival from 12th to 14th September.

    [13-Feb-14 ]


  • There was an interview with Oversteps poet, Robert Cole, in the recent issue of the Central Brittany Journal.

    [24-Jan-14 ]


  • Ross Cogan won the Cannon Poets ‘Sonnet or Not’ competition, and A C Clarke was highly commended.

    [24-Jan-14 ]


  • Ross Cogan and A C Clarke both received commendations in the Troubadour Poetry Competition.

    [24-Jan-14 ]


  • Christopher North and Ann Segrave were both shortlisted for the Bridport Prize in 2013; and Tony Watts was commended in the Buzzwords competition.

    [10-Dec-13 ]


  • Three Oversteps poets, Maggie Butt, Mandy Pannett and Ken Head were commended in the Poetry Kit Poetry Competition.

    [10-Dec-13 ]


  • R V Bailey and Alwyn Marriage gave a reading with Dannie Abse at Keats House in Hampstead after the Poetry Society’s AGM at the end of November.

    [10-Dec-13 ]


  • An interview with Robert Cole (Spool, 2013) was recently published in the Central Brittany Journal, in France.

    [10-Dec-13 ]


  • Oversteps News 28.
    Oversteps News is now posted as a blog and can be found at

    [13-Nov-13 ]