The 2009 Derwent Poetry Festival will take place at Masson Mills, Matlock Bath over the weekend of 20^th-22^nd November.

The festival launches nine new titles from poetry publishing house, Templar, including the four new pamphlets from the 2009 Pamphlet and Collection Competition, which was judged by Tim Liardet.

The winners were Paul Maddern, David Morley, Nuala Ni Choncuir and Dawn Wood. Many of the shortlisted poets will also be reading from the competition anthology.

Admission is free, and doors open from 6.15 pm. The festival starts with a reception & reading by Pat Winslow, and finishes on Sunday afternoon at 3pm with final readings from the first collections of  Angela Cleland and Katrina Naomi.

All the poets will be reading from work published by Templar Poetry, and these are available at the Festival Bookshop.

Further details of the festival, and the poets attending can be found at:

http://templarpoetry.co.uk/