![Newcastle Poetry Festival 2023: Patrick James Errington](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Untitled-design-470x140.png)
Patrick James Errington is a Scottish-Canadian poet and has won the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award from the Writers’ Trust of Canada’ and the Callan Gordon Award…
![Newcastle Poetry Festival 2023: Mary Jean Chan, Clare Shaw & Kim Moore](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Untitled-design-470x140.png)
This event offers meditations on the dynamics of romantic and family relationships, and how these relationships affect our identities. Kim Moore’s recent collection All The Men I Never…
![Newcastle Poetry Festival 2023: Sarala Estruch, Anita Pati & Yvonne Reddick](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Untitled-design-470x140.png)
This event explores family migration, legacies of trauma, and climate emergencies, in powerful works. Sarala Estruch’s debut collection After All We Have Travelled is a Poetry Book Society Spring…
![Newcastle Poetry Festival 2023: Paths to Abstraction and Dear Neighbour](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Untitled-design-470x140.png)
This dual event showcases work by Newcastle University students and winners of the ‘Dear Neighbour’ commissions. Curated by John Challis, we will first hear poems written…
![Newcastle Poetry Festival 2023: Zaffar Kunial & Fiona Benson](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Untitled-design-470x140.png)
We are thrilled to to be working with the T.S.Eliot Foundation to bring you two poets recently short-listed for the T.S. Eliot prize, who will…
![Northern Poetry Symposium 2023: Malika Booker & Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Untitled-design-470x140.png)
A powerful collective poetry experience to close the day’s discussions, featuring poems from Malika Booker and an electrifying choreo-poetry performance by Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa. Use the ‘CC’ button…
![Northern Poetry Symposium 2023: Inclusive Communities panel](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Untitled-design-470x140.png)
Our final panel tackles how poetry can represent and reach more diverse communities. The PBS Summer Choice Airea D Matthews joins virtually from the US to share…
![Northern Poetry Symposium 2023: Poetry Collectives panel](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Untitled-design-470x140.png)
Director of the Complete Works and Nuevo Sol British LatinX writers, Nathalie Teitler kickstarts the afternoon with a panel discussion celebrating poetry collectives. Malika Booker (Pepper Seed, Peepal Tree Press), who founded…
![Northern Poetry Symposium 2023: Fellowship panel](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Untitled-design-470x140.png)
The British Council’s Literature Programme Manager Rebecca Hart chairs this exciting case study of global poetry community in action. We’ll be joined virtually by two of the British…
![Northern Poetry Symposium 2023: Festival Focus panel](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Untitled-design-470x140.png)
What are the challenges of running a Poetry Festival? And what are the gains for poets, audiences and publishers? Do festivals contribute to a sense…
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