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• LONDON SW5: Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour

  20-May-13

  

  With poets including Kim Moore, Kathryn Maris, Sarah Jackson. » Read more

• Chance to create online magazine

  

  Chance for 16-30-year-olds to create their own online magazine. » Read more

• COVENTRY: Wordsmiths & Co.

  20-May-13

  

  The UK's first live poetry talk show, featuring poets you know from the pages of books and from festival stages. » Read more

• Towersey Festival offering new development programme

  

  Writers Tom Banks and Debs Newbold are looking for "live lit" writers to mentor, who will go on to perform at Towersey Festival. » Read more

• CROYDON: Poets Anonymous

  20-May-13

  

  New Poets Anonymous meeting, on the third Monday of every month. » Read more

• In the Land of the Giants

  

  George Szirtes has won the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) Poetry Award » Read more

• LONDON WC1: The Blue Bus

  21-May-13

  

  Ken Edwards and Philip Terry read. » Read more

• New Children's Poetry Website

  

  The Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE) has launched a children's poetry website » Read more

• LONDON WC1: Lumen Poetry Series

  21-May-13

  

  Ruth O'Callaghan presents Anne Stevenson and Richard Berengarten. » Read more

• Items added to the Poetry Library March/April 2013

  

  Here is a list of items added to our collection in March and April 2013 and now available for reference or loan. » Read more

• LONDON WC2: Stanza Bonanza

  22-May-13

  

  7.30PM » Read more

• LONDON E1: Jawdance

  22-May-13

  

  A splurge of spoken word. Featured performers, pen mic, poetry on film... and all free. » Read more

• LONDON WC1: Shifting Territories

  22-May-13

  

  A conference on "modern and contemporary poetics of space", with David Morley, Jo Shapcott, Alice Oswald and more. » Read more

• WOODSTOCK: Don Paterson

  22-May-13

  

  Don Paterson reading from recent work and his Selected Poems. » Read more

• LONDON SE10: Emily Dickinson

  23-May-13

  

  Lecture-performance-with-readings. » Read more

• PLYMOUTH: Forked

  23-May-13

  

  Performance poetry to inspire, delight and provoke, within the most burlesque bar in Plymouth. » Read more

• LONDON WC2: Matthew Dickman and Ann Gray

  23-May-13

  

  An evening of readings from the much talked about American poet Matthew Dickman and award winning British poet Ann Gray. » Read more

• MANCHESTER: Prole Art Threat

  23-May-13

  

  Free Manchester Fall poetry night » Read more

• LIVERPOOL: Liverpool Poetry Cafe

  23-May-13

  

  John Gorman, Sue Boardman and Martin Daws » Read more

• NOTTINGHAM: Ophelia's Sistas

  24-May-13

  

  Featuring Char March and Valerie Laws » Read more

• CRICIETH: Creative Writing and Dementia Course

  24-May-13

  

  Tutors - Karen Hayes and John Killick » Read more

• LONDON WC1: Farrago Poetry Slam

  24-May-13

  

  With Katie Bonna, AF Harrold, Greta Bellamacina, Bridget Minamore, Lucy Gellman and Philip Meersman. » Read more

• HAY-ON-WYE: Poetry and the Transmission of Errors

  25-May-13

  

  Don Paterson speaking on 'Poetry and the Transmission of Errors';10am. » Read more

• LONDON SE1: Tadeusz Rózewicz

  25-May-13

  

  7:45 PM » Read more

• HAY-ON-WYE: The Gwyn Jones Lecture 2013

  25-May-13

  

  RS Thomas Centenary Series; The Uncollected Poems Of RS Thomas. » Read more

• PORTSMOUTH: Anne-Marie Fyfe

  26-May-13

  

  Anne-Marie Fyfe and The Hanging Tree Band. » Read more

• Le Moulin: Five-day Residential Poetry Course

  27-May-13

  

  With tutor Katherine Gallagher » Read more

• CRICIETH: Writer-in-Residence Retreat

  27-May-13

  

  Ty Newydd Writers' Centre, Llandystumdwy. » Read more

• LONDON E2: The Yellow Show

  28-May-13

  

  Rob Auton performs a spoke-word show about his love for the colour yellow. » Read more

• ABERGAVENNY: The Collective

  28-May-13

  

  Mike Jenkins, Ifor Thomas and John Lovat » Read more

• LONDON NW3: Jane Draycott and Pascale Petit

  28-May-13

  

  6:30 PM » Read more

• LONDON EC2: Saboteur Awards 2013

  29-May-13

  

  Sabotage Reviews celebrates its third birthday with the Saboteur Award winners. Special musical guests LiTTLe MACHine will perform. » Read more

• HAY-ON-WYE: Gillian Clarke - Housman Lecture

  29-May-13

  

  The National Poet of Wales gives this year's Housman Lecture » Read more

• HAY-ON-WYE: A Poem for RS Thomas

  29-May-13

  

  Gillian Clarke, Owen Sheers, Mererid Hopwood, Menna Elfyn, Anna Lewis, Emyr Lewis, Damian Walford Davies, Glyn Maxwell, Eurig Salisbury & Grahame Davies. » Read more

• HAY-ON-WYE: A Tribute to RS Thomas

  29-May-13

  

  8.30 pm » Read more

• LONDON NW3: Emily Dickinson

  29-May-13

  

  Lyndall Gordon talking about Emily Dickinson » Read more

• MARGATE: Big Talk

  31-May-13

  

  7:30 PM; £5/£3. » Read more

• BIRMINGHAM: Level-UP!

  31-May-13

  

  5PM; free. » Read more

• SHEFFIELD: Sheffield Poetry Festival

  31-May-13

  

  The second Sheffield Poetry Festival is a ten-day programme of thirty events celebrating the local, national and international. » Read more

• Arizona, USA: Summer Writing Residency Program

  01-Jun-13

  

  Deadline for submission: 17 December. » Read more

• LONDON SW5: Seeing Red

  02-Jun-13

  

  Themed writing workshop with Anne-Marie Fyfe. Discover what red conveys to us in the archetypal colour-scheme. » Read more

• LONDON NW3: Modern Poetry in Translation

  02-Jun-13

  

  With Chris Beckett, Frances Leviston and Fiona Sze-Lorrain. Part of the Keats Festival. » Read more

• LONDON NW5: Maureen Duffy and Cicely Herbert

  02-Jun-13

  

  Maureen Duffy and Cicely Herbert at Torriano Meeting House. » Read more

• LONDON SW5: Coffee-House Poetry at the Troubadour

  03-Jun-13

  

  Simon Armitage, Freida Hughes, Paul Stephenson, Paul Warren and Stuart Silver. Plus open mic. » Read more

• LONDON E1: Velvet Tongue

  03-Jun-13

  

  7pm; £5/£3 conc. » Read more

The current, "live" magazines stocked at The Poetry Library and online. » Read more

Have a look at the current U.K. imprints that publish poetry.
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"We can not compete but perhaps we meet somewhere." Red Rose » Read more

Help people find out where that line in their head comes from. » Read more