Welcome to the 2017 Newcastle Poetry Festival. READINGS | MUSICAL COLLABORATIONS | PERFORMANCES | WORKSHOPS | FILMS | BOOK SIGNINGS | FOOD STALLS
Join us for a fantastic closing event with voices from America. Ilya Kaminsky was born in Odessa, Ukraine and came to America with his family in 1993. He is author of Dancing in … Continued
New-York based Nuar Alsadir is a psychoanalyst and poet whose second collection Fourth Person Singular (2017) was a finalist for the 2017 National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the … Continued
This event celebrates the latest instalment of the Bloodaxe Books series Ten: Poets of the New Generation, which presents the work of exciting British poets from diverse backgrounds. Editor Karen McCarthy Woolf will … Continued
We are delighted to present the Royal Literary Fund Lecture by Sasha Dugdale on the theme of translation, entitled ‘Pushkin is Our All!’ Pushkin, unlike Chekhov, Dostoyevsky and Turgenev, remains relatively unknown in … Continued
Come and hear the inspiring work of current MA in Writing Poetry students based at The Poetry School in London, and at Newcastle University. Readers include Elaine Baker, Diana Cant, Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana, Natalie … Continued
For this event, we welcome multi-award-winning Irish poet, Ciaran Carson, to Newcastle for the first time. Carson is the author of over a dozen books spanning poetry, translation and prose, and is a … Continued
Imtiaz Dharker was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014 and her most recent collection, Luck is the Hook (2018), contemplates the fickle nature of fate and chance. Sasha Dugdale’s long poem … Continued
This event celebrates The Caught Habits of Language (2018), an anthology containing 100 commissioned poems written for the centenary of Greenock-born poet W.S. Graham. Editors Rachel Boast, … Continued
Taking as its starting point the themes of war, poverty and racism identified by Martin Luther King in his 1967 speech in Newcastle, and the focus of the poetry anthology, The Mighty Stream: Poems … Continued
With the generous support of the Newcastle Unversity Institute for Creative Arts Practice (NICAP), we present an innovatve poetry/art collaboration between Newcastle Poetry Festival and the Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums Trust. As part of the festival, eight poets … Continued