Rebecca Goss, pictured, will be taking part in a panel discussion on “writing motherhood” with TS Eliot prizewinner Sinead Morrissey and Carolyn Jess-Cooke at the Dorothy Wordsworth festival of women’s poetry at Grasmere on 11-13 April.  There will also be talks and workshops, and the poet laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, will be reading at the festival, along with Sinead Morrissey, Forward prizewinner Emily Berry, Patience Agbabi, Marianne Burton and Gillian Allnutt. More details  

 

APRIL

Stamford verse festival, 10-12 April 

Dorothy Wordsworth festival of women's poetry, Grasmere, 11-13 April 

Wenlock poetry festival, Shropshire, 25-27 April 

 

MAY

Strokestown poetry festival, Co Roscommon,  2-4 May 

Poetry-next-the-sea, Wells, Norfolk, 9-11 May

Bodmin Moor poetry festival, Liskeard, 30 May-1 June 

Suffolk poetry festival, Stowmarket, 31 May 

 

JUNE

Bodmin Moor poetry festival, Liskeard, 1 June 

Bridlington poetry festival, 12-15 June

Dinefwr literature festival, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, 20-22 June

Cornwall contemporary poetry festival, Calstock, 28-29 June

 

JULY

Wirral Festival of Firsts,  5-13 July 

 

SEPTEMBER

Winchester poetry festival, 12-14 September