BBC Contains Strong Language 2018

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

Views on Hughes, from Simon Armitage, Helen Mort, Zaffar Kunial and Karen McCarthy Woolf

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

Some pictorial highlights from the 2018 festival

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

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'.

Extracts from Paul Farley's conversations with poets

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

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

Four of the Hull 18 poets reveal their trade secrets.

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

BBC Radio 1Xtra celebrates spoken word!

The Verb on Instagram Poetry and writing for social media.

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

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.

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