Wonderful line-up for this year's Newcastle Poetry Festival, 9-11 May, incl. events with Carolyn Forché, Marjorie Lotfi, Imtiaz Dharker, John Challis, #FleurAdcock , T. S. Eliot Prize-shortlisted poets Jane Clarke & Abigail Parry, plus Georgian poet Diana Anphimiadi & her translators.

Check out this great launch reading from Bloodaxe Books ft. Jane Hirshfield, Maria Stepanova, and Maria's translator, Sasha Dugdale, in conversation w/ Neil Astley, plus readings from the new Soul Feast anthology.

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Very grateful to Greg Freeman for this generous write up of yesterday’s reading for Morpeth Book Festival

Looking forward to reading Morpeth Book Festival today. I’ll be sharing poems written during my residency SeatonDelavalNT and poems from my Bloodaxe Books collection #TheResurrectionists

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Jane Hirshfield, Maria Stepanova and Maria's translator Sasha Dugdale celebrated the publication of their new poetry books this week at an amazing online reading for Bloodaxe also featuring the anthology Soul Feast. This can now be viewed on Vimeo as well: vimeo.com/926273545

🚨 Calling all third year and postgraduate students 🚨
Submissions for this year's beyond the walls anthology are open!
Go to blog.yorksj.ac.uk/creativewritin…
and read our blog for more information :)
If you know anyone who might be interested please do them a favour and tag them below!

Join John Challis on Wednesday for a fascinating online poetry workshop, Welcome To The Machine!

In this workshop we’ll consider ways of writing about machines and question how poems can resemble machinations, working beyond the control of their makers.

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COMING UP THIS MONTH:

John Challis (John Challis) joins us for 'Welcome to the Machine', an online poetry workshop exploring ways of writing about machines, their coolness, their futurity, their detachment...
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Wed 24 Jan, 11am: buytickets.at/thepoetrybusin…

Thanks for reading tonight to John Challis David Clarke, Peter Daniels Rishi Dastidar 🔱🌊 Stuart Henson, Holly Hopkins, Gregory Leadbetter Katrina Naomi Ruth Padel, Tom Sastry, Robert Selby Dr Liz Sennitt Clough George Szirtes Rory Waterman, Rebecca Watts Kevin Gardner Renard Press #poetry

Friends in London: come and hear an array of great poets tomorrow eve at St Mary’s Church, Islington, to celebrate the publication of Contraflow: Lines of Englishness 1922-2022, ed. by John Greening & Kevin Gardner . Free event. I’ll be reading too. Hope you can make it 🙏

Linda France and Lisa Matthews! Thursday 2nd November @litnphil Newcastle upon Tyne, 7pm; Blueprint Press presents an evening of poetry and community. Please come and celebrate the work of two outstanding Poets.

In 2021, I was with Milan Děžinský in Newcastle who read there with John Challis and Dr Jake Morris-Campbell whose poems I enjoyed, esp. Prayer at the Edge of the West by John and Grapnel by Jake. Tonight Jake will read with yet another Czech poet, Petr Hruška. This time in Manchester!

Edinburgh folks, can’t wait to read from #TheResurrectionists tomorrow eve Topping & Company Booksellers of Edinburgh w/ the superb Patrick James Errington & Kris Johnson.

Tickets and details - toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinbur…

Join us for a unique evening with a trio of poets! We're lucky to be joined by Patrick James Errington, Kris Johnson and @johndchallisPatrick for an event celebrating poetry, with the authors reading from their works!

📅Fri 20th October
🕐7:30pm
📍The Bookshop
🎟️⬇️ toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinbur…

Excited to be reading with fellow Bloodaxe Books poets Marjorie Lotfi & Yvonne Reddick at the Berwick LitFest this Saturday! Full details and tickets: eventbrite.co.uk/e/marjorie-lot…

Don't miss tonight's Salon workshop with Mslexia's resident poet Kris Johnson! She'll be talking about all things imagery and helping you write poems that draw your readers in. Join us 5-7pm via Zoom ✍️ mslexia.co.uk/salon/ #AmWriting #PoetryCommunity #WritingCommunity

Great to have ‘The Knowledge’ included in this anthology exploring ideas of Englishness in poetry, ed. by John Greening & Kevin Gardner - there’s a fascinating dialogue between the editors on the subject as an introduction. Many excellent poets and an honour to be included

You won't often get to hear such a lineup of poets - and it's a free event!

Alvi, Challis, Clanchy, Clarke, Copus, Daniels, Dastidar, Ely, Henson, Hopkins, Khalvati, Leadbetter, Naomi, Padel, Siddique, Selby, Sennitt Clough, Szirtes, Waterman, Watts - maybe others Renard Press

Did you know that we run courses in Newcastle, as well as in London and online? We have two Newcastle-based courses starting soon: Writing Poems with pippa little & John Challis (27 Sep) and Writing Crime with Trevor Wood (28 Sep).

Find out more: faberacademy.com/location/newca…

Don't forget about tonight's online launch readings with Nicole Sealey, courtney conrad 🇯🇲 🇬🇧 & Jen Campbell (is mostly elsewhere). All three poets will be reading from their brilliant new work and discussing with John Challis

19:15 BST / 14.15 EDT (or watch later on YouTube): youtube.com/live/XMOWG0Q2f…