Bristol Poetry Festival 2009
Poetry Can announces the programme for this years Bristol Poetry Festival.
The festival brings together the most entertaining,
inspirational and award winning poets and performers from Bristol, the South West, the UK and the World in an annual celebration of language, imagination and life..
Highlights this year include:
Tony Benn & Roy ...
31st July 2009
Ted Walters Competition Winners
Results for The 3rd Annual Ted Walters International Short Story and Poetry Competition 2009
Poetry Section Winners:
1st Prize: No 225 Entitled ‘Tomorrow will be a day beloved of your father and you’ By Rosie Shepperd, London. £200.00
2nd Prize: No 204 Entitl...
31st July 2009
Performance Poetry Workshop in Wigan
25th July 2009
Polyverse Poetry Festival
Buy your ticket for Polyverse before they're all gone! If you're still deciding on whether or not to buy a ticket, here's why you should:
1) AMAZING VALUE - a crazy low price only £20 for the entire ...
18th July 2009
Raise Your Banners Poetry Competition
Theme: “Living in 21stCentury Yorkshire”
1 Poems must be original, unpublished, (including internet publication) and not have won any other prize.
2 They must be typed in English, on...
18th July 2009
The John Betjeman Young People’s Poetry Competition
11th July 2009
Go to the ends of the Earth for poetry!
It’s the home of Bards of New Brighton, who will host their monthly open-mic session at the Magazine pub, Magazine Brown, New Brighto...
11th July 2009
The Poetry Society announces new Ted Hughes Award
11th July 2009
RIP Steven 'Seething' Wells
Just about to leave for Glasto on a Thursday morning, one final e-mail check...among the spam was a message from my footie...
8th July 2009
BBC Blast - opportunity for 13-19-year-olds
Are you 13 -19? Got a way with words? Write & perform poetry? Rap? Spoken word?
BBC Blast has teamed up with the Poetry Society to challenge all budding performers to write and perform an original 60 s...
6th July 2009
Sophie Hall is a Super Heroine of Slam
At an incredibly close poetry slam at Hole in T’Wall pub, Sophie Hall (pictured) pipped Pete Crompton at the post to win the second heat of Commonword's Superheroes of slam. Now, as well as the £50 fi...
6th July 2009
BBC poetry slam success
Manchester poets Michael Wilson and Ben Mellor (pictured) are through to the semi-finals of the BBC national poetry slam championships after winning the North West heat in fine style with magnificent ...
3rd July 2009
