There is plenty of poetry among the literary events at Hexham book festival in Northumberland next month. On Friday 9 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, mi...

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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 re...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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...

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