Northern Stage | Newcastle Poetry Festival 2020

7 Mar 2019

Festival Launch event with Terrance Hayes

19:00-20:30 | Northern Stage

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The opening of this year’s festival is marked by a special event featuring critically-acclaimed poet Terrance Hayes. Hayes is the author of numerous collections of poetry, including American Sonnetsfor My Past and Future Assassin (Penguin, 2018), shortlisted for both the … Continued

8 Mar 2017

Pippa Little, Fiona Sampson and Jo Shapcott

17:30–18:45 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | £6 (£4 conc)

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Tickets: £6 (£4 conc) available from webstore Join us for a reading from three inspiring poets. Royal Literary Fund Fellow Pippa Little’s most recent collection is Twist (Arc Publications, 2017). The author of twenty-seven books, Fiona Sampson’s most recent … Continued

8 Mar 2017

Tara Bergin, Sophie Collins and Wayne Holloway-Smith

16:00–17:15 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | £6 (£4 conc)

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Tickets: £6 (£4 conc) available from webstore We present three exciting new voices. Tara Bergin’s debut collection This Is Yarrow won the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize for Best First Collection in 2014. Sophie Collins’ poems have appeared … Continued