Festival launches Manchester Poetry Library's Polish collection
Following their highly successful 2018 Polish Poetry Festival, Radość Pisania, Manchester Metropolitan University’s Writing School is having another on Saturday 27 February, this time to celebrate the launch of the Polish language poetry collection at Manchester Poetry Library; and, this time, online.
Poets from the UK and Poland will discuss and respond to work in the collection, from which gu...
24th February 2021
Replying to Keats: new poems from three contemporary poets on bicentenary
The Poetry Society has marked the bicentenary of the death of John Keats on 23 February by commissioning three contemporary poets – Ruth Padel, Will Harris and Rachael Boast –to respond to their favourite Keats poems with a new poem of their own.
John Keats died of tuberculosis in Rome on Februar...
22nd February 2021
StAnza poetry festival marks end of the Soviet Union
StAnza, Scotland's international poetry festival from 6-14 March will mark the 30th anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union as a political unit with a focus on languages from countries of the forme...
20th February 2021
Writ in water: radio play and poetry event to mark bicentenary of John Keats' death in Rome
The Keats-Shelley Memorial Association is marking the start of two years of events celebrating the lives and works of poets John Keats and Percy Bysshe Shelley with a commissioned play, Writ in Water,...
17th February 2021
Celebrating the NHS with These Are the Hands anthology reading at Kendal poetry festival
A reading from the NHS anthology These Are the Hands will be one of the highlights of Kendal poetry festival, taking place online from 19-28 February. The anthology published by Fair Acre Press featur...
3rd February 2021
