BBC Contains Strong Language 2018

A handy summary of what went on at the 2018 festival of poetry, performance and new writing

More highlights from Hull 2018's partnership between the BBC, Absolutely Cultured, 1418 NOW, the British Council, Arts Council England and Wrecking Ball Press.

A few audio and video highlights from CSL 2017 & 2018

Performance and interviews from the live recording at CSL and Birmingham Literature Festival - with footage from the origin of the project in Jamaica

All about the UK’s biggest poetry and performance festival of new writing, which returned to Hull in September 2018.

BBC Radio 1Xtra celebrates spoken word!

Sean Scully's documentary A Northern Soul, Vicky Foster's one woman performance Bathwater and Tanya Shirley with discussion of Caribbean poetry.

The Verb at the 'Contains Strong Language' festival in Hull with Jackie Kay, Gruff Rhys, Louise Wallwein, Joe Hakim and work inspired by 'Palgrave's Golden Treasury'.

Jacob Polley, Caroline Bird, Wayne Holloway-Smith and Mary Jean Chan share poems about beginnings, arrivals and coming of age.

Extracts from Paul Farley's conversations with poets

Doscover how a music class for disabled children in New York City uses beatboxing as speech therapy.

Poet Simon Armitage and director of JoinedUp Dance Jackie Goodman tell us more.

Written by award-winning poet and playwright Louise Wallwein, and Directed by Mark Murphy, Home Town Story was commissioned and produced by Absolutely Cultured for Contains Strong Language.

BBC Local Radio teamed up with 12 specially chosen poets across England to create a dozen new poems for broadcast on National Poetry Day.

Piers Black-Hawkins on winning the Alfred Bradley Bursary Award 2016.

Making the Caribbean soldiers of World War One visible through verse - with poet Tanya Shirley.

Some pictorial highlights from the 2018 festival