forwords is a bi-weekly email bulletin, offering a digest of information about poetry and spoken word events, workshops, and other literary events in Sheffield and the surrounding area (including Doncaster, Barnsley, Huddersfield, and Rotherham).

The organisation is now looking for a new editor,...

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Capital of Culture poems wanted for Orbis 145, Special Issue on the theme of Culture* (see below)
Or Liverpool, Or from poets with some link to the City of Liverpool, eg, used to play in a band there ...

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From 9 -12 October 2008 the Literaturwerkstatt Berlin is organising the ZEBRA Poetry Film Festival, the international festival for poetry films.

 

Poets from Cocteau to Jandl to Handke hav...

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WEDNESDAY 8TH OCTOBER 2008 7PM - 9PM @ FONT BAR, NEW WAKEFIELD ST, MANCHESTER

Would you like to be “Not Part Of” in 2009? On the 8th of October we will be holding a get together for those who want t...

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we thought our poets might be interested in this coming-of-age drama that premieres in The Studio at Manchester’s Royal Exchange Theatre from Wednesday 24 September to Saturday 11 October, before tran...

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Come and get your preconceptions shaken up at this public reading of the work of a highly creative group who open the windows of life, illuminating even the darkest corners of experience with wisdom a...

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Poets studying for PhDs in Creative Writing (Poetry) at the Centre for New Writing, University of Manchester, will unveil their work to the public at a special lunchtime reading.

It will be the fi...

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A play in one act by Brenda Read-Brown presented by Tewkesbury Arts and Drama Society at the Cheltenham Literature Festival – 8:30 pm, Tuesday 14th October 2008.

A man and a woma...

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The Essex Poetry Festival takes place from the 19th September and continues for the whole of October in venues throughout Essex.
Bringing the best in live contemporary poetry to Essex, it is THE showca...

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Manchester Literature Festival 2008 is taking place between 16th - 26th October

Writers will be travelling to Manchester from as far afield as North Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the United St...

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SPINEBREAKERS ANNOUNCES ‘RHYTHM AND RHYME’ COMPETITION

 

 

London, 22 July 2008...  Spinebreakers, Penguin’s teen online book community, and the National Year of Reading today launched ...

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From the 5th to 21st September the Books and Drama Festival in Sedbergh, England's Book Town, is celebrating the greatest British writer of all time?....yes William Shakespeare. In case you have imme...

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The second Derwent Poetry Festival is staged over an autumn weekend (Oct 17th - 19th) in the spectacular Derwent valley gorge at Masson Mills in Matlock Bath. The festival features some of our best mo...

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