International Poetry Calendar

The Canadian Festival of Spoken Word began as a small festival in Ottawa in 2004. At that time, it was dubbed the Canadian Spoken Wordlympics. The first festival included six teams of poets and a small number of guests in attendance. In just nine short years, the festival grew from …

The TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities) -St Edmund Hall Writer in Residence scheme for 2020 is designed to bring a BAME writer to the University of Oxford for the eight weeks of Hilary Term (January 19th through to March 14th 2020). St Edmund Hall, a small and …