Anjum Malik, a poet who fuses eastern and western forms, will be headlining a performance by a collaboration of local writers whose first language is not English on Wednesday 25 June as part of the first Bolton poetry festival. More details of the festival programme are to be announced soon. Malik appeared in Write Out Loud’s The Beat is Back event at the Marsden jazz festival in October last year.

 

MAY

St Ives literature festival, 10-17 May

Wigan and Leigh Words festival, 12-24 May 

Sheffield Lyric festival, 14-17 May

Bodmin Moor poetry festival, Liskeard, 30 May-1 June 

Suffolk poetry festival, Stowmarket, 31 May 

 

JUNE

Bodmin Moor poetry festival, Liskeard, 1 June 

Bridlington poetry festival, 12-15 June

Charles Causley festival, Launceston, Cornwall, 12-16 June 

Dinefwr literature festival, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, 20-22 June

Poetry in the City, World Curry Festival, Bradford, 20-22 June

Worcestershire literary festival, 20-29 June 

Cornwall contemporary poetry festival, Calstock, 28-29 June

 

JULY

Stratford-upon-Avon poetry festival, 2 July - 3 August  

Ledbury poetry festival, 4-13 July

Wirral Festival of Firsts,  5-13 July 

 

AUGUST

Stratford-upon-Avon poetry festival, until 3 August 

 

SEPTEMBER

Winchester poetry festival, 12-14 September