Pam Ayres looks back and forward at Hexham book festival
There is plenty of poetry among the literary events at Hexham book festival in Northumberland next month. On Thursday 8 May Pam Ayres will be talking about her new collection, Doggedly Onward: A Life In Poems, including poems from the 1970s to the 2020s, and subjects such as dogs, wildlife, travel, mistakes, regrets, the heartbreak of leaving the family home, and ageing.
Saturday 10 May sees no...
24th April 2025
Sighs in Blyth: Elaine Cusack marks 40 years in poetry with pamphlet launch and reunion reading
A north-east poet who was first published as a teenager by Bloodaxe Books is celebrating 40 years of writing poetry by launching a new pamphlet next month. Elaine Cusack’s launch event also marks a reunion with friend and novelist Geoff Smith, who will also be reading new published and unpublished w...
23rd March 2025
Simon Armitage returns to Marsden on latest leg of libraries tour
The poet laureate, Simon Armitage, is lining up the next leg of his 10-year tour of the UK’s libraries. Each spring this decade, Armitage is giving readings in libraries across the UK and his journey...
3rd March 2025
Remembering Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath
The Poetry Hour is staging a reading by actors of the works of Emily Dickinson, pictured, and Sylvia Plath at the British Library, in the week of International Women’s Day. The reading will take place...
25th February 2025
Two multilingual poets to help celebrate International Mother Language Day in Manchester
Manchester is celebrating International Mother Language Day 2025 with two newly appointed Multilingual City Poets, Charlotte Shevchenko Knight and Nóra Blascsók.
Charlotte Shevchenko Knight is a po...
16th February 2025
Dominic Berry at Write Out Loud Bolton tonight
Award-winning poet Dominic Berry is the guest at Write Out Loud Bolton open-mic night at Bolton Socialist Club on Sunday 2 February. Dominic, who has twice won the Saboteur award for performance poets...
2nd February 2025
Tribute show to remember Jackie Hagan in Manchester tonight
Friends of Jackie Hagan are re-staging Magic Animals, a poetry session she used to host, in a one-off tribute show on 1 February at Manchester’s Contact theatre.
Jackie, a multi-award-winning poet,...
1st February 2025
Billy Collins to appear at Seamus Heaney HomePlace
The hugely popular American poet Billy Collins will be reading and in conversation with poet Paula Meehan at the Seamus Heaney HomePlace in Bellaghy, Co Derry on Saturday 8 February at 7.30pm (doors o...
22nd January 2025
