Welcome to the 2017 Newcastle Poetry Festival. READINGS | MUSICAL COLLABORATIONS | PERFORMANCES | WORKSHOPS | FILMS | BOOK SIGNINGS | FOOD STALLS
Tickets: FREE Join poet Christy Ducker as she reads from her new pamphlet, Messenger, written in residence at York’s Centre for Immunology and Infection. Her reading is accompanied by film-poems by Kate Sweeney.
Tickets: FREE Small press Clinic brings poets Edward Doegar and Rebecca Tamás to celebrate the publication of their pamphlets, For Now and Savage. Both poets will read from their new publications.
Tickets: FREE In this ‘Poetry of Witness’ reading, the Cold Boat hosts, Joanne Clement and Tracy Gillman, invite a selection of authors to share poems in response to unsettling current affairs. Featuring an extract from a new documentary film with … Continued
Tickets: FREE Elegy | Poetics for a beleaguered sea Open your window and let the stars fall. / The tide is coming and for it we will wait. – Lisa Matthews Join poet Lisa Matthews and visual artist Melanie Ashby … Continued
Workshops are held on the Newcastle University campus. Exact location TBC. We have all experienced the restrictions of the English language, as it is used in the everyday. I want to tell you I am sad, but there are … Continued
Workshops are held on the Newcastle University campus. Exact location TBC. In this workshop we will be exploring ekphrasis: poetry which responds to visual art. We will consider the complex relationship between word and image, and work specifically with … Continued
Workshops are held on the Newcastle University campus. Exact location TBC. This workshop will look at the use of “source materials” – from archival papers to literary allusion; pop culture, translation and centos – to explore the act of “poetic … Continued
Workshops are held on the Newcastle University campus. Exact location TBC. A workshop outlining techniques and creative methods for making ‘poetryfilm’. For writers, filmmakers and artists or anyone interested in the potential of combining images, text and sound, … Continued
Workshops are held on the Newcastle University campus. Exact location TBC. This workshop will focus on new movements in Documentary Poetics: the use of archival materials; interleaving of lyric, journalistic and other textual forms; redaction, erasure, cut-ups and … Continued
Tickets: £6 (£4 conc) available from webstore A chance to hear two distinguished poets read their work. Rachael Boast’s first collection, Sidereal, won the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize, 2012. Void Studies, realising a project that Arthur Rimbaud … Continued