When now-poet laureate Simon Armitage retired from the Probation Service, his dad was “a bit miffed”. “I went into probation because my dad was a probation officer,” Armitage tells Big Issue. “He was ...

Victoria has a new pair of literary ambassadors: Kyeren Regehr and Shauntelle Dick-Charleson have been named the City of Victoria’s new poet laureate and youth poet laureate, respectively.

The laureate is honoured with a solo exhibition at the Hasselblad Center in Gothenburg from 11 October 2025 until 18 January 2026, along with a series of events during Hasselblad Award Week, including ...