Poetry and Documentary with Carolyn Forché
9:00–11:00 | Newcastle University | FULLY BOOKED
Film and Poetry with Kate Sweeney
11:00–13:00 | Newcastle University | FULLY BOOKED
Source and Sauce with Ahren Warner
14:00–16:00 | Newcastle University | £15
Ekphrastic Poetry with Sinéad Morrissey
16:00–18:00 | Newcastle University | FULLY BOOKED
Gillian Allnutt and Rachael Boast
19:00–20:15 | Northern Stage | Stage Two | £6 (£4 conc)
In Praise of Wonkiness with Wayne Holloway-Smith
10:00–12:00 | Newcastle University | £15
Lisa Matthews and Melanie Ashby: A Year in Beadnell
11:00–11:45 | Northern Stage | Stage 3 | FREE
The Cold Boat 0.3
12:00–12:45 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | FREE
Clinic presents Edward Doegar and Rebecca Tamás
13:00–13:45 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | FREE
Messenger: poetry between life and science
14:00–14:45 | Northern Stage | Stage 3 | FREE
Cynthia Fuller, Marilyn Longstaff and Andrew Sclater
15:00–15:45 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | FREE
Tara Bergin, Sophie Collins and Wayne Holloway-Smith
16:00–17:15 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | £6 (£4 conc)
Pippa Little, Fiona Sampson and Jo Shapcott
17:30–18:45 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | £6 (£4 conc)
PBS Presents: Alice Oswald and Penelope Shuttle
19:00–20:15 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | £6 (£4 conc)
Friday Day Ticket
Day pass for all NPF events at Northern Stage on Friday
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The Basil Bunting Poetry Award 2017: Prize Announcement and Reading
10:30–10:55 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | FREE
Discussion: Writing a Competition Poem
11:00–11:45 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | FREE
Discussion: What role does poetry have in the current political landscape?
12:00–13:00 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | FREE
MA in Writing Poetry student readings
13:30–14:30 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | FREE
Discussion: Poetry and Translation
15:00–16:00 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | FREE
Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi and Bejan Matur w/ trans. Jean Boase-Beier and Erica Jarnes
16:15–17:15 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | £6 (£4 conc)
David Harsent, Sinéad Morrissey and Ahren Warner
17:30–18:45 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | £6 (£4 conc)
Jericho Brown, Carolyn Forché and Patricia Smith
19:00–20:30 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | £6 (£4 conc)
Saturday Day Ticket
Day pass for all NPF events at Northern Stage on Saturday
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Filmpoem | The Poetry Society at Newcastle Poetry Festival
Filmpoem | The Poetry Society at Newcastle Poetry Festival is a series of short, engaging and beautiful poetry-films drawn from the National Poetry Competition commissions and a selection from the Filmpoem archive. Showing from Thursday 11 May to Saturday 13 May at Northern Stage (Stage 3). See the full programme here.
Showcase of Bloodaxe Archive
3pm, Thursday 11th May 2017
Robinson Library, Level 1
To celebrate Newcastle Poetry Festival 2017, Newcastle University Library’s Special Collections invites you to a drop-in showcase of unique modern poetry archives. The showcase will include a wide range of material, from letters by A.E. Housman and Rudyard Kipling to the internationally significant archive of Bloodaxe Books. Visit us on Level 1 of the Robinson Library to browse and speak with archivists and researchers involved in the care, curation and study of modern poetry archives in the Special Collections.
Steps in Time
Steps in Time is a mobile phone app that guides you on a poem-walk across Newcastle upon Tyne. Sixteen regionally-based poets offer their responses to sixteen locations in the city to tell new stories and shine new light on the cultural and social history of Newcastle. Find out more here.
For all Wednesday Sage events, please book via the Sage Gateshead website
Transparencies of Sound screening, Poetry and Music discussion event and the Poetry and Music performances.
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Northern Stage Pass – £30 (£22 concession)
Access to all Northern Stage events on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
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