2017

Tickets: £6 (£4 conc) available from webstore   The work of these poets push the boundaries of poetry. David Harsent’s most recent collection Fire Songs (Faber & Faber) won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2014. Winner of the T.S. Eliot … Continued

Walter Benjamin said ‘ All translation is only a provisional way of coming to terms with the foreignness of languages’.   Join us for a discussion about translating poetry with the poets, editors and translators W.N. Herbert, Jean Boase-Beier, Sophie … Continued

Come and hear the inspiring work of current Newcastle University students based at The Poetry School, London, and Newcastle. With readings from: Edmund English Imogen Forster Sandra Galton Stephen Kendall Steph Morris Nick On Molly Rowan Elizabeth Young

Join the poets, Patricia Smith, Carolyn Forché and Jericho Brown who are from the USA, and whose work reflects international and humanitarian concerns, for a discussion on poetry and politics.  

Is there a difference between a poem that works on the page and a poem that wins a competition? How can you make your stand-alone poem grab the attention of the judges? Mslexia Editor Debbie Taylor, ex chair of the … Continued

The Basil Bunting Poetry Award is an annual, international poetry prize administered by the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts. This year’s judge, Ahren Warner, will present the prizes and welcome winners to the stage to read their poems.

Tickets: £6 (£4 conc) available from webstore   An enthralling double bill: Alice Oswald’s Falling Awake (Cape, 2016) is a meditation on the primacy of humans in the natural world. Penelope Shuttle’s new collection will-you-walk-a-little-faster (Bloodaxe Books, 2017) explores the … Continued

Tickets: FREE Three poets based in the North East read from their new publications. Cynthia Fuller has five poetry collections and her latest publication is a pamphlet, Home is where (Red Squirrel Press, 2017). A graduate of the Newcastle Creative … Continued