Friday | Newcastle Poetry Festival 2020

9 Mar 2018

Poetry and Human Rights Discussion with Shami Chakrabarti, Carolyn Forché and Patricia Smith

13.00-14.00 | Northern Stage | Stage 2 | FREE

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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

9 Mar 2018

Launch of Commissions: Sean Scully responses and Waves and Bones

11.00-12.00 | Northern Stage | Stage 3 | FREE

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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

9 Mar 2018

Such a Terrible Beauty with Patricia Smith (SOLD OUT)

10.00-12.00 | Newcastle University | £15

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Poets often find themselves faced with the difficulty of writing the ‘difficult’–especially in reaction to a world that constantly teeters on the edge of tragedies both personal and political. What strategies can we use to approach, enter and execute 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

8 Mar 2017

In Praise of Wonkiness with Wayne Holloway-Smith

10:00–12:00 | Newcastle University | £15

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Workshops are held on the Newcastle University campus. Exact location TBC. We have all experienced the restrictions of the English language, as it is used in the everyday. I want to tell you I am sad, but there are … Continued