Places of Poetry: Daljit Nagra at the Wordsworth Trust

Places of Poetry meets Reimagining Wordsworth, a project led by the Wordsworth Trust which aims to re-examine the poet’s life and legacy from a modern perspective, creating new ways to enjoy his poetry. Poet and broadcaster Daljit Nagra will be leading poetry workshops and walks in the hills around Grasmere. Keep an eye on the website for dates and times.

Reading, Performance

Places of Poetry: Jack Underwood at Sherwood Forest

Sherwood Forest is home to the Major Oak, a tree so ancient (estimated 1000 years old) it has seen the births and deaths of Shakespeare, Henry VII, Dickens, Darwin, Newton and Chaucer. It grows within 375 hectares of forest which is also home to hundreds of species of birds, insects, mammals, fungi, trees and plants. For Places of Poetry lecturer and poet Jack Underwood will be leading poetry activity including walks, story telling and a workshop - look out for more details

Reading, Performance

Places of Poetry: The Kia Oval

Places of Poetry’s final stop is the Kia Oval, for the 5th Test Match of the 2019 Ashes series between Australia and England. Life-long cricket fan Zaffar Kunial is poet-in-residence. Zaffar will be producing cricket-based poetry and reading one of his poems during Test Match Special on BBC Radio 5. Places of Poetry will be running a flash sports-themed poetry competition – all you have to do is pin a sports based poem onto our map (dates for entries will be announced week commencing 2nd September, so keep an eye on the website).

Reading, Performance

Places of Poetry: Kayo Chingonyi at Hadrian’s Wall

Places of Poetry will be working with the National Trust team, at Hadrian’s Wall and Housesteads Fort, Northumberland from the 19th to 23rd August. Kayo Chingonyi, Places of Poetry’s poet-in-residence, will be working with local residents exploring the changing history of the wall through poetry related activites.

Reading, Performance, Open mic

Places of Poetry: Poetry walk with Sarah Howe

Places of Poetry will be based at Dovedale in the Peak District between Mon 12 - Sun 18 August when Sarah Howe will be Poet in Residence.

On Friday 16 August Sarah will be leading a poetry walk, from Ilam to Dovedale (Lover’s Leap) and back. This is a bookable event, max 12 people, tickets £5, 10am – 12.30pm. To book a place please Tel: 01335 350503.

Reading

Oundle Festival of Literature

Prize-winning poet Charles Bennett reads from his new book Cloud River, a book of lyrical landscape poetry set in the Cambridgeshire Fens.

A light supper is included, and you may take your own drinks or purchase hot or soft drinks at the venue.

Tickets £10 available from the Oundle Box Office, 4 New Street, Oundle.

Open hours: 10.00am – 4.00pm Mon to Fri: Tel 01832 274734, online at www.oundlefestival.org.uk

Reading, Performance

Poetry Month

A whole month dedicated to the wonders of Poetry. Including Poetry Pick and Mix, Our Favourite Poem, displays and poetry events throughout the month.

Free, Library

Allie Esiri presents Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year

Following the resounding success of her intimate poetry evenings at the National Theatre and Bridge Theatre, Allie Esiri’s latest show celebrates her new anthology: Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year, published by Macmillan this autumn. The evening will feature powerful and timely readings from Christopher Eccleston and two further actors, to be announced shortly.

Reading, Performance, Spectacular

The Good Life Experience

A festival of discovery and fun, curated by Cerys Matthews and featuring a line up of star poets including Saleena Godden and Helen Mort.

Reading, Performance, Spectacular

Reading the Nation’s Favourite Poems

We will choose as many poems as possible in the time available to be read aloud and discussed in a relaxed atmosphere.

Ticket: £5 to include a glass of wine/tea/coffee.

Age: 12+

Ring the library to reserve a place on
0116 3053523

Reading, Performance, Library

National Poetry Day Celebrates Creativity

1. House tutor to read their favourite poem.
2. Watch NPD clips from the website.
3. Houses to make a display of a NPD recommended poem for display in corridor.
4. Creative writing club to run a poetry competition through Houses.
5. Poetry lines hunt.

Library, Prize, Exhibition

Poetry writing competition at Bodelschwingh Gymnasium

The pupils are invited to write their own poems and hand them in to the English Room at our school. These poems are judged, exhibited for the whole school to read, and prizes and certificates are awarded. This will be our third year of taking part in the National Poetry Day here at the Bodelschwingh Gymnasium in Herchen, Germany. The pupils love it and are always thrilled with the typically English prizes they receive, such as tea or Union Jack pencils!🇬🇧

Free, Prize, Exhibition

Dancing With Words

Dancing with Words explores the relationship between poetry and dance. Three dancers and three poets have taken inspiration from the NDP theme of Truth and worked in pairs to create a trilogy of exciting new work. The performance will be followed by a Q&A with the artists.

Performance

Festival of Poetry

Join us in a celebration of poetry at the Chatterbox Tea Room in Oxton Grange Care Home on Bidston Road, Wirral. Bring a favourite short poem or one you've written. Everyone welcome!

Reading, Performance, Free

Paul Henry | Crickhowell Literary Festival, ‘The Glass Aisle’ with Rev Margaret Williams

Explore the stretch of the Monmouthshire & Brecon canal above Crickhowell, which inspired Henry’s long poem, 'The Glass Aisle'. Including readings from the poem and talk from local historian Margaret Williams.

Time: 2 - 4pm
Tickets: £15

Buy tickets from: https://cricklitfest.co.uk/event/paul-henry-the-glass-aisle-with-rev-margaret-williams/

Performance

Katherine Stansfield | Poetry Upstairs at the Hen & Chicks Abergavenny

Katherine will be reading alongside Frank Olding and John Jones at this monthly poetry happening organised by Ric Hool.

Time: 8pm
Entry: £5 on the door

Flannel Street, Abergavenny NP7 5EG

Performance

Katrina Naomi | Reading at the Loose Muse, Winchester

Katrina will be reading from her new pamphlet 'Typhoon Etiquette', published by Verve Poetry Press.

Time: 7:30-9:30pm
Tickets: £6 on the door

Performance

Inspire Poetry Festival 2019

Featuring celebrated poetry stars, regional favourites and cutting-edge newcomers, and with styles ranging from the formal lyric to freestyle spoken word, this year’s festival promises a plethora of poetry delights at venues around the county.

Reading, Performance, Library

Lincolnshire Schools Poetry Competition 2019

Competition for a poem on the subject of - “TRUTH” open to pupils of Lincolnshire Schools in the following groups:- Key Stage 1 (5-7 years) 2 (7-11 years) 3 (11-14 years) 4 (14-16 years). Entries will be judged by Chris Martin, Stamford Poet Laureate and winners will be invited to read their poem at a Prize-giving Evening on Friday 29th November 2019.
Entries via the website or by post.

Free, Prize

National Poetry Day Celebration with Chrissie Gittins

National Poetry Day Ambassador Chrissie Gittins will be performing her poems and running workshops at St Margaret's School, Hampstead.

Performance

Visit from Poet and Illustrator Chris White

A visit by poet/illustrator Chris White. More later ...!

Performance, Library

St Bartholomew’s Church

We are running a competition for our young parishioners for the best poem.

Prize

The Quality of Mersey

Contributers to the Quality of Mersey anthology will be reading their odes to our great river at the fabulous Museum of Liverpool.

Performance

An Interactive Poetry Performance with John Hegley

National Poetry Day is the annual mass celebration of poetry and all things poetical. This year’s theme will be Truth. Many a true word is spoken in jest – No Nonsense Poetry!

For primary school years 4, 5 and 6, enjoy the rhyme and rhythm of a mandolin playing poet, acclaimed as one of the greatest and wittiest wordsmiths in the UK.

Accompanied by the many keyboard voices of the fascinating Clare Elstow, with music ranging from the Blues to Baroque and Roll.

Performance

Celebration of National Poetry Day

Poetry Cafe will be putting on a staged showcase of local poetry to celebrate the day. Admission £2
East Sussex based poets are invited to take part.
If you would like to perform your poems based on the theme 'truth' at this evening event, please submit your request for a slot of 5 minutes maximum. Email to poetrycafeugt@aol.com

Performance, Open mic

National Poetry Day with The 1000 Monkeys

An evening of Open Mic with local guest readers at the Cranleigh Arts Centre, with Janice and Dónall Dempsey hosting. Performers will be announced nearer the date, by email to subscribers to our newsletter at our website and on our facebook and twitter pages.

Performance, Free, Open mic

National Poetry Day Nook Lane

An annual National Poetry Day event. It culminates in an extended assembly of live poetry readings by children and links to published poets. I prepare a poetry anthology which is read in classes in the weeks leading up to NPD and the children vote on their favourite poem in it. We also launch our poetry competition, The Nooker Prize, which takes place one month after the NPD event, where poetry based on the NPD theme is written and judged, and prizes awarded.

Performance, Prize

Sounding Off: National Poetry Day with Black Horse Poets

An evening of performances from the Black Horse Poets and other very talented local writers. Also featuring readings ('I’m a Nasty Woman' by Nina Donovan and
'Phenomenal Woman' & 'Still I Rise' by Maya Angelou) plus music this will be a night to remember.

£5 per ticket, all money raised will be given to local women's charities and mental health charities for both men & women.

Reading, Performance

Henley Literary Festival

Celebrate National Poetry Day at the Henley Literary Festival. The line up includes two National Poetry Day Ambassadors - Michael Rosen and Roger Stevens. Friends of the Festival tickets go on sale at 9am on Tuesday 16th July and on general sale at 9am on Monday 22nd July. It costs £35 to be a friend of the festival.

Roger Stevens at the Edinburgh Book Festival

A special event for P4-P6 pupils starring National Poetry Day Ambassador Roger Stevens. Part of the Baillie Gifford Schools Programme.

National Poetry Day celebration with Joshua Seigal

A special celebration with National Poetry Day Ambassador Joshua Seigal

National Poetry Day celebration with Michaela Morgan

National Poetry Day Ambassador Michaela Morgan will be leading the celebrations at Bute House School with poetry performances and workshops.

Discover Literature: Schools National Poetry Day Live

Get wordy with your class at a day of workshops and performances on National Poetry Day 2019.

After an introductory performance from SLAMbassadors and former winners of the Foyle Young Poets of the Year award, pupils take part in two poet-led workshops on the 2019 theme of ‘truth’ to develop their writing and poetry reading skills. Workshop leaders include Raymond Antrobus, Dzifa Benson and Young People’s Laureate for London Theresa Lola.

The day is followed by a performance from all the workshop leaders plus Daljit Nagra, which is open to additional school groups.

 

Performance

Forward Prizes for Poetry 2019 Ceremony

The Forward Prizes for Poetry 2019 will be awarded at the Southbank Centre on Sunday 20th October 2019.

See the nation’s most coveted poetry prizes awarded live on stage by the chair of the jury Shahidha Bari, and hear readings from the 15 poets shortlisted.

Performance, Prize

Sweetshop of Words

This sweetshop of conceptual confectionary offers each member of the public a small gold coin which they can spend on just one thing at the counter and it explores the notion of choice in our lives - “Choose well. Your choice is brief, and yet endless” as Goethe says.

NPD Ambassador Sally Crabtree will then invite visitors to design a sweet wrapper for the confectionary that will fill a PinARTa which is hanging on the stall. The PinARTa can be ‘bashed’ at a spoken word event called GOBstopper where all the ‘goodies’ are shared out.

Performance, Exhibition

Great Malvern Primary Poetry Festival

In its second year, the Great Malvern Primary Poetry Festival will be launched this year by none other than 2018 CLiPPA Award winner and National Poetry Day Ambassador, Karl Nova. This year, the school community will be celebrating rhythm and rhyme in a blockbuster week of all things poetry related!

Performance, Free

Caswell Chat

In celebration of National Poetry Day Caswell Clinic Patient Magazine, the Caswell Chat, has brought all the poems ever published in the magazine together into one place.

Between now and National Poetry Day the posters are placed around the clinic and now await responses that will be published in the magazine.

Some patients are too unwell to leave the clinic or interact with the outside world so outside encouragement is welcomed on many fronts.

Free

Bath Children’s Literature Festival Poetry Slam

Schools from across Bath and the surrounding area will be coming together on National Poetry Day to perform on the festival stage and to compete for the title of Slam Champion!

Performance

Poetry at George’s

Patients in hospital at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust write poems.

Free

National Poetry Day

Poems of Truth declaimed by members of Suffolk Poetry Society and public from the spiral staircase of the South Outlook Tower at Aldeburgh beach.

Performance, Free

A day of poetry at the Place Theatre

The Place Theatre is giving over the whole of the 3rd of October to a mini-festival of poetry. Workshops in the morning, networking at lunch, readings in the afternoon and performances in the evening.

Performance, Open mic

Her 100 Cerdd

To celebrate National Poetry Day, Literature Wales has once again challenged four poets to compose 100 Welsh-language poems in 24 hours. Each poet will need to compose at least one poem every hour in order to complete the challenge in time. Past teams have reached the deadline with only seconds to spare. Will this year’s fabulous four follow suite and finish as the clock strikes twelve?

Free

An Illustrated Introduction to Modern Poetry with Jan Noble

A taster evening to our Cafe Society season of Poetry workshops over 6 weeks.

Tuesday 19th March
7 - 8.30pm
Sunbury Gallery

Tickets £8 with glass of wine included

To book 01932 788101 or barbara@sunburygallery.org

Performance, Exhibition

Cheltenham Poetry Festival

A poetry party with a healthy dose of anarchy (The Guardian) spread over 10 days. The Festival, which has been praised for its outspoken and socially conscious events, this year offers ground-breaking and provocative performances, workshops and the Slam! Come and join Kim Moore, Nafeesa Hamid, Jamie Thrasivoulou, Annette Badland and many more...

Performance, Open mic

Brave Poets National Poetry Day

We hold curated open mics - invitees are welcome to read a poem of their own.

Date: Thursday 3 October 2019
Location: Soho
Theme: Truth

Poets, writers, singers, rappers perform original work of their own, of any genre, in exchange for audience feedback. We include a live band in the second half. email:bravepoets@gmail.com or see facebook/bravepoets or instagram @bravepoets for more details.

Performance

Reclaim the Frame: The Kindergarten Teacher Screening, Live Q&A + Poetry Workshop

A film screening of The Kindergarten Teacher, followed by a poetry workshop, at Tyneside Cinema Newcastle.

Truth in Nature

Verses in the veg patch, and stanzas in the leaves!

Come along to community allotment PLOT 22 in Hove to discover some poems that explore Truth in nature.

This two hour workshop will facilitated by Story Chaplain, a social enterprise that encourages moments of connection through 'words for wellbeing'.

Reading, Free

An Evening in the Company of Lilian Ross

Poems and songs from the pen of Lilian Ross to celebrate National Poetry Day.

Laugh, listen, sing, join in!

Performance

Poetry Breakfast

Breakfast followed by workshop.

A.F.Harrold Creative Writing Club

Performance poet and all round wonderful author, A.F.Harrold, will be joining us for Creative Writing Club.

There's no need to book.
£5 each, age 6+
Saturday 5th October, 4:00pm-5:30pm

Performance

Poetry Slam

Join us on National Poetry Day for a poetry slam!
You can bring along your own verses to share, recite a well-loved poem or simply be part of the audience.
This is suitable for poetry lovers of all ages and abilities.
Book your free place to avoid disappointment.

Performance, Free

Verve Poetry Festival

Verve is a four-day festival in the heart of Birmingham city centre, 5 seconds walk from the shiny New Street Station. We’ve programmed the very best contemporary poetry all in one building. Hear award-winning poets and local legends sharing the same stage. Attend workshops open to all levels. Experience genre-defying performances. Bring the house down at a spoken word and music gig. Brave an open mic.
Meet your favourite poets and discover new ones. It’s the friendly, down to earth, cosmopolitan and deliciously bold festival you’ve heard everyone talking about. Most importantly, we want Verve to be for everyone: whether you’ve been writing for years or are just starting out; whether you’ve attended every festival on the circuit or this is your first.

Performance, Open mic, Exhibition

National Poetry Day

Come along to Waterstones Gateshead and share your poetry about Truth with us 3rd October from 5pm

Reading, Performance, Free