The Ledbury Poetry Festival takes place over ten days each July. Touted as the biggest and best poetry festival in the UK and celebrating its 23rd year in 2019, the Ledbury Poetry Festival features poets from all over the world. There are live readings, performances, workshops, open mics, music, exhibitions, …
Literature is haunted by that which covers two-thirds of our planet, the sea. Its myths and marine life offer inexhaustible inspiration for writers. This course, led by Paul Henry and Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, delights in the sea’s influence on poetry and considers different approaches to reflecting its pervading presence in our …
The West Cork Literary Festival features workshops, readings, seminars, family events and more. Griffin Poetry Prize winner Anne Carson is among the writers attending this year's festival. Learn more here.
Uncover your creativity at a poetry workshop with the writer of incisive, intimate poetry collection The Perseverance (PBS Winter Choice 2018). Raymond Antrobus is the winner of the 2017 Geoffrey Dearmer Prize. His poems have been published in Poetry, Poetry Review and the New Statesman, and he is the recipient …
Farming districts, factory villages, ghost towns, bedroom communities, alternative societies, touristic hamlets, and shtetls: Poetry is Dead wants your poems and creative nonfiction on the subject of small town life. It isn’t necessary to have grown up in a small town to have an experience of one. Whether it be …