![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…
![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…
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