• Event Listings

    Listings of UK poetry events

  • Events

    Events around the UK
    • CAMBRIDGE READING SERIES
      Reading series in Cambridge organised by Ryan Dobran, Ian Heames, Justin Katko, Laura Kilbride, and Mike Wallace-Hadrill.
    • Chlorine Readings
      Reading series in Brighton organised by Francesca Lisette. (Not currently running)
    • Counting Backwards
      Counting Backwards is a series of text-sound-performance events based in Withington, UK. Run by Richard Barrett, Matt Dalby and Gary Fisher.
    • Desperate For Love
      Reading series in Brighton organised by Gary Goodman, Alan Hay and Wolfy Jones. (Not currently running)
    • Hi ZERO!
      Fiercely fine poetry readings in Brighton, UK.
    • Intercapillary Spaces
      Reading series in London organised by Edmund Hardy and Felicity Roberts.
    • Luton Arts Festival
      Yearly arts festival featuring poetry curated by Kevin Doran and Keith Jebb.
    • The Other Room
      Reading series in Manchester organised by James Davies, Tom Jenks and Scott Thurston.
    • POLYply
      POLYply is a series of events including poetry readings, performances, film screenings and installations foregrounding cross-genre writing. Run by members of the Poetics Research Group at Royal Holloway (University of London).
    • The Situation Room
      Occasional reading series in London. Run by Jonny Liron.
    • Text Festival
      Festival of events in Bury curated by Tony Trehy.
    • Writers Forum
      Writers Forum was founded in the 1950s by Bob Cobbing and others. It began publishing in 1963. In 2002, Bob Cobbing handed on Writers Forum to Lawrence Upton and Adrian Clarke. It still meets every few weeks throughout the year and still publishes.

  • Places

    Places of interest in the UK