Denise Saul

Denise Saul is the author of two pamphlets. White Narcissi (Flipped Eye Publishing) was Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice and House of Blue (Rack Press) was PBS Pamphlet Recommendation. She is the recipient of Poetry Society’s Geoffrey Dearmer Prize for her poem ‘Leaving Abyssinia’. Her first full-length collection, The Room Between Us, will be published… Continue reading Denise Saul

JL Williams 

Books by JL Williams include Condition of Fire (Shearsman, 2011), Locust and Marlin (Shearsman, 2014), House of the Tragic Poet (If A Leaf Falls Press, 2016), After Economy (Shearsman, 2017) and Origin (Shearsman, 2022). Published widely in journals, her poetry has been translated into numerous languages. She has read at international literature festivals and venues… Continue reading JL Williams 

Ben Wilkinson

Ben Wilkinson was born in the English Midlands and lives in Sheffield. His poems and criticism regularly appear in national publications including the Guardian, New Statesman, The Poetry Review, The Spectator, and the Times Literary Supplement. His debut collection of poems, Way More Than Luck, was published by Seren in 2018 and won a Northern… Continue reading Ben Wilkinson

Khairani Barokka

Khairani Barokka is a Minang-Javanese writer and artist from Jakarta, whose work has been presented widely internationally, and centres disability justice as anticolonial praxis. Among her honours, she has been Modern Poetry in Translation‘s Inaugural Poet-in-Residence, a UNFPA Indonesian Young Leader Driving Social Change, an Artforum Must-See, UK Associate Artist at Delfina Foundation, and Associate Artist at the National Centre for Writing… Continue reading Khairani Barokka

David Spittle

David Spittle is a poet, filmmaker, and essayist. His second collection, Rubbles (Broken Sleep Books, 2022) was praised by the PBS as a ‘provocative and electric read’. His debut, All Particles and Waves was published by Black Herald Press (2020) following the pamphlet, B O X (HVTN, 2018). A book of interviews with filmmakers on… Continue reading David Spittle

André Naffis-Sahely

André Naffis-Sahely is the author of The Promised Land: Poems from Itinerant Life (Penguin UK, 2017) and the editor of The Heart of a Stranger: An Anthology of Exile Literature (Pushkin Press, 2020). His second collection, High Desert, will be published by Bloodaxe Books in June 2022. He is from Abu Dhabi, but was born… Continue reading André Naffis-Sahely

Northern Poetry Symposium:

Emergency Poetry Summit

Thursday 5 May, 10am-5pm Northern Stage £15 £10 concessions (includes unwaged, under 18, students, carers) £5 Digital Ticket The Poetry Book Society and NCLA have called an Emergency Poetry Summit on the 5th May at Northern Stage. We’re reuniting the poetry community for our first Newcastle Poetry Festival since the pandemic began; a chance to… Continue reading

Northern Poetry Symposium:

Emergency Poetry Summit

Rishi Dastidar

Rishi Dastidar’s poetry has been published by the Financial Times and BBC amongst many others. He is a fellow of The Complete Works, a consulting editor at The Rialto magazine, a member of Malika’s Poetry Kitchen, and chair of writer development organization Spread The Word. A poem from his debut collection Ticker-tape was included in… Continue reading Rishi Dastidar

Simon Armitage

Simon Armitage was born and grew up in West Yorkshire. He is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. He has published over a dozen poetry collections, including Magnetic Field, and acclaimed medieval translations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Owl and the Nightingale. He is the… Continue reading Simon Armitage