The Art Bar is recognized as Canada's longest running poetry-only, weekly reading series. Since 1991, it has featured both emerging and established poets from across Canada and occasionally from abroad. It has become a hub for the poetry community, and entry point for new voices, a place for people to …
Supported by Bankstown Youth Development Service (BYDS), the Bankstown Poetry Slam is a live spoken word competition in which the audience is the judge. Join us for another night of magic at the largest regular poetry slam in Australia, featuring David Stavanger and a multitude of local talent. Learn more …
The Spring Pulse Poetry Festival (northern Ontario's largest annual poetry/arts event) returns in 2015 for its eighth year. The festival has a mandate to share poetry in public places. Last year, poets read in Extendicare facilities, in a Grade 8 classroom and other local schools, in hospital settings and more. …
For 27 years Hay Festival has brought together writers from around the world to debate and share stories at its festival in the staggering beauty of the Welsh Borders. Hay celebrates great writing from poets and scientists, lyricists and comedians, novelists and environmentalists, and the power of great ideas to …
CoastWord is a celebration of written, spoken word and song-writing to bring Dunbar, East Lothian and all the festival's many visitors together in story, song and poetry. Combining grass-roots story-making with readings and workshops from established, emerging and local writers, poets, singer-songwriters, CoastWord provides an unique opportunity to celebrate all …