Saturday

  Join us for this special event celebrating the inaugural Newcastle Poetry Competition and Young People’s Poetry Prize. Judges Deryn Rees-Jones and Phoebe Power will announce the winners in both categories who will read from their prize-winning work. With generous … Continued

  The pamphlet is an important stepping stone in a poet’s development. As a showcase of promise, it gives a focussed and exciting insight into a poet’s particular world. These four upcoming and widely-published poets – Martin Kratz, Marjorie Gill, … Continued

  Come and hear the inspiring work of current Newcastle University MA in Writing Poetry students basedat the Poetry School in London and at Newcastle: Diana Cant, Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana, Natalie Crick, Madelaine Culver-Goldstein, Caroline Davies, Anne Gill, Arpit Kaushik, Lydia … Continued

  The Festival’s penultimate reading welcomes back Deryn Rees-Jones, whose new collection Erato is just out from Seren. Deryn is a poet, critic and editor of the Pavilion Poetry list. Liz Berry, whose debut Black Country (Chatto, 2014) was described … Continued

  We’re thrilled to conclude with two leading international poets. Slovenian writer Aleš Šteger has published seven books of poetry, three novels, and two books of essays. A Chevalier des Artes et Lettres in France and a member of the … Continued