This will be a very special event with poets Fleur Adcock & Liz Berry celebrating their most recent collections, including Fleur’s ‘Collected Poems’ and Liz’s ‘The Home Child’ 📚
Sat 11 May, 3.30-4.30pm

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We are so excited to host Hannah Copley & alice hiller to help celebrate Pavilion Poetry 10th Anniversary 🎉🎈We look forward to hearing poems from dynamic collections ‘Lapwing’ & ‘bird of winter’ 🐦🕊️📚Sat 11 May 1.30-2.30pm

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🤓We’ll open on Sat 11 May with poems by Newcastle University students inspired by local landmark Morden Tower 📚(intro’d by poet & lecturer John Challis) as well as a performance by The Peoples Theatre Youth Group 🎭inspired by Shields Road, Heaton 🌲

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Heading to the #NewcastlePoetryFestival next week? 🎶 Why not register for our annual RSL lecture, delivered by the wonderful Anthony Joseph NCLA

Tickets are free to RSL Members/Fellows, register for yours here: bit.ly/3wnc2g0

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🤓This will be a great event discussing community, migration and heritage with poets from the State of Play anthology: Troy Cabida Jennifer Wong & Kit Fan
Friday 10 May, 3.30pm, Northern Stage

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🤓This will be a wonderful event celebrating Northern writing ✍️ with Harry Man, Jane Burn & Linda France ✨Friday 10 May, 5pm Northern Stage

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🤓This is an important panel featuring leading diaspora poets on topics of exile and refuge. We look forward to hearing poets Carolyn Forché, Marjorie Lotfi Charlotte Shevchenko Knight & Yousif M. Qasmiyah on Fri 10 May 12-1pm

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🤓This will be an exciting event for those writing about natural landscapes 🗻🌊🐟We look forward to hosting this global panel of Sonam Pem Tshoki, Alycia Pirmohamed, Helen Mort & Rolf Hermann ⛰️📚

🐝Find out what's on in May!

📚Hexham Book Festival (Hexham Book Festival) and NCLA's Newcastle Poetry Festival are on this month! Make sure to check out our North East Book Events newsletter to see these and everything else.

Find out more 👉readdurhamenglish.wordpress.com/events/english…

🤓We still have spaces on our Festival workshops Thurs 9 May to Sat 11 May with Fred D’Aguiar, alice hiller Mymona Bibi & Natalia Bukia-Peters & Suji Kwock Kim 📚More info and booking newcastlepoetryfestival.co.uk ✍️

Many readings from Imtiaz Dharker coming up over the next few months, including at Hexham Book Festival, NCLA, Out-Spoken, Topping & Company Booksellers of Bath, Books On The Rise, Ledbury Poetry & Five Leaves Bookshop
All event details here: shorturl.at/hszJO
#ShadowReader published this month.

🤓We are please to announce that Bridget Hamilton is our Festival Poet in Residence at Grainger Market 🍒🍓Bridget will be reading new work inspired by the residency at the NPF Showcase, Sat 11 May, 11.30am, Northern Stage, free NewcastleCityCouncil

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Getting ready to take my 🎨colour 🎨 kit north to ⁦⁦NCLA⁩ for an in-person workshop extravaganza on Friday 10 May of writing prompts & supportive discussions aimed looking at colour as portal & energy channel & opening rainbows of new work webstore.ncl.ac.uk/short-courses/…

🤓We’re very excited for our T. S. Eliot Prize reading with Abigail Parry & Jane Clarke Bloodaxe Books on Thurs 9 May, 6.30pm Northern Stage #NPFP24

Tickets here newcastlepoetryfestival.co.uk 🎫

This Thursday 2 May, NCLA welcome novelist Mike McCormack (pictured), in conversation with English at Newcastle Prof Bill Herbert (@billherbert)
Free event, details and ticket booking here
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🤓We’re looking forward to the Global Showcase with Amelia Loulli, Rolf Hermann & CAConrad 📚Come and hear these exciting voices #InternationalPoetrySymposium
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🤓This will be a great event with Molly Rosenberg Royal Society of Literature, Aki Schilz The Literary Consultancy & Ryan Van Winkle StAnza Poetry in conversation about sustainability, programming and careers in arts management today 🎭
Booking info newcastlepoetryfestival.co.uk

🤓We’re excited for the ‘Introduction to translating poetry’ workshop with Mymona Bibi and Natalia Bukia-Peters in partnership Poetry Translation Centre on Sat 11 May 10am-12pm ✏️Booking info newcastlepoetryfestival.co.uk📚

TONIGHT! 🦻🏽Raymond Antrobus + Dr Shalini Sengupta in conversation w/ poems, in celebration of the life and work of Professor Benjamin Zephaniah - SOLD OUT w/ WAIT LIST (so let us know if you can't make it...)
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'Sometimes the truth is not a beacon/ but a small flame// or only the light of a phone/ falling on the face of a witness'.
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