Award-winning performance poet Zena Edwards will be joined by Orla Price and Annie Rockson in the Young Voices event at Winchester poetry festival on Friday 12 September. Edwards specialises in conjuring up a small neighbourhood of characters, and weaving their stories together. She worked with Price and Rockson as part of the Poetic Debaters project. Young Voices: Zena Edwards and Friends is from 9.30-11pm at Winchester Discovery Centre, tickets £10 / £8. More festival details 

 

SEPTEMBER

Bristol poetry festival, 10-21 September 

Winchester poetry festival, 12-14 September

Release the Hounds performance festival, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, 12-14 September

Celebrating Seamus Heaney on Home Ground, Magherafelt, Northern Ireland, 12-15 September  

Wise Words festival, Canterbury, 12-21 September

Wigan Diggers' festival, 13 September 

Wakefield Lit Fest, 18-30 September

King's Lynn poetry festival, 26-28 September

Exeter poetry festival, 29 September - 5 October 

 

OCTOBER

Exeter poetry festival, until 5 October 

Warwick Words festival of literature and spoken word, 1-5 October

Swindon poetry festival, 2-5 October

Birmingham literature festival, 2-11 October

Cheltenham literature festival, 3-12 October 

Havant literature festival, 3-12 October

Ilkley literature festival, 3-19 October

Durham book festival, 6-18 October

Manchester literature festival, 6-19 October

Essex poetry festival, Chelmsford, 11 October 

Teesside poetry festival, Middlesbrough, 16-20 October

Ted Hughes festival, West Yorkshire, 24-26 October

 

NOVEMBER

Aldeburgh poetry festival, 7-9 November

Reading poetry festival, 7-9 November