![Northern Poetry Symposium 2024: Making a Place for Poetry](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/NPF-2024-long-banner-with-dates-470x140.png)
This panel gathers leading literary organisations for a timely discussion on the next steps in inclusive programming, sustainability and tips on how one can establish…
![Newcastle Poetry Festival 2023: Valzhyna Mort & Maura Dooley](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Untitled-design-470x140.png)
This reading will provide a resonant and thrilling finale to the festival, combining the thoughtful, probing poems of one of the UK’s most significant poets,…
![Newcastle Poetry Festival 2023: Jacob Polley](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Untitled-design-470x140.png)
Jake Polley won the T.S.Eliot prize for his fourth poetry collection, Jackself (2016). His fifth collection, Material Properties, is published this year. He is Professor of Creative Writing at…
![Newcastle Poetry Festival 2023: Sean O'Brien](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Untitled-design-470x140.png)
Sean O’Brien, novelist, playwright and one of the UK’s foremost poets, published his twelfth collection, Embark, in 2022. He is the winner of multiple awards, including the…
![Newcastle Poetry Festival 2023: Tara Bergin & Ahren Warner](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Untitled-design-470x140.png)
This reading will also feature film and images and provides the opportunity for reflection and discussion about both poets’ work and the relationship between word…
![Newcastle Poetry Festival 2023: Carola Luther, Kris Johnson & Matthew Hollis](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Untitled-design-470x140.png)
This afternoon’s readings present rich meditations on Nature, wildness and the idea of home. Carola Luther was born and brought up in rural South Africa and now…
![Newcastle Poetry Festival 2023: The Chancellor's Poetry Prize](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Untitled-design-470x140.png)
Inspired by Newcastle’s iconic cityscape, students were asked to write poems under the theme of ‘Bridges’. The prize will be presented by judges Imtiaz Dharker, Chancellor…
![Newcastle Poetry Festival 2023: Imtiaz Dharker, Carol Ann Duffy & John Sampson](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Untitled-design-470x140.png)
The special event will feature the luminous words of Imtiaz Dharker and Carol Ann Duffy, who will also be accompanied by the musician John Sampson. Carol…
![Newcastle Poetry Festival 2023: Daljit Nagra & Owen Sheers](http://archive.nclacommunity.org/content/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Untitled-design-470x140.png)
This event with two award-winning poets explores home, landscape and language. Owen Sheers is a poet, author and playwright. He has been twice-winner of Welsh Book of…
![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…
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