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A Festival of Poetry & Spoken Word ☆ Returning 16th - 20th February 2022 ☆ 'Best poetry festival in the UK' -Anthony Anaxagorou

15/08/2025

5 days to send us your poems!

Poem of the Month
A monthly poetry competition for the bold, the beautiful, the bizarre, and the brilliant!

This month’s theme is CHAOS.

£100 prize for the winning poem
£3 per poem, £6 for three
Max 3 poems per person per month

Full info on the website where you can enter.
Read previous winners and shortlisted poems over on our Substack.

11/08/2025

Kay Dixon interview over on Substack talking about language, poetry influences, and this….

“Your corner of the world is worth writing about. I sometimes get overwhelmed with the weight of the world’s injustices. Writing poetry or creating art can feel pointless. But I do believe being creative is an act of resistance, not because it changes the world in some big, deep way but because it helps us become who we are more fully, inhabit our being more fully, love, live and connect with each other more fully.

Sometimes opening the news app or your WhatsApp just makes you want to hide under the covers. I get it. Some days all I’ve got is reciting Italian verbs so I don’t have to think about all that other s**t. But we’re all threaded together.

Whatever your corner of the world is, whatever love or doubt or questions you hold in you – write about them, inhabit them, live them. I think the more we do that, the more space there is for love and light in the world.

“

09/08/2025

OUR zoom poetry workshop series is underway but it's not too late to sign up and join in the poetry fun. With discounted bundles of three and six workshops, and a stellar lineup of poets what's not to like. LINK IN BIO 😍

07/08/2025

Work In Progress *ahem* POETRY

Got a good idea? Submissions open September 1st.

All info on our website!

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01/08/2025

Have a chaotic poem?

31/07/2025

SUPER MASSIVE CONGRATULATIONS to whose debut pamphlet is the PBS Pamphlet Choice for Autumn 2025! We are SO proud of her and her incredible book. Visit our website (LIB) and get your copy! 😍

30/07/2025

Winner: Words fall out my mouth like teeth, crumbling by Kat Dixon

Kat Dixon’s poem delivers experience as sensation through gesture, geography, and miscommunication. We’re placed immediately in a landscape that is foreign, tactile, and almost spiritual; the landscape is where the poet diffuses as the relationship between cloud and mountain reflect the circumstances of the poem.

Focaccia becomes a fluent tongue with utensils, facial expressions and firefly’s communicating fleeting relatedness. This poem is a lesson in staying with the uncertainty of connection, and in finding meaning, familiarity and recognition in the nature that holds our human bonds - met or missed.

Our shortlisted poems include;
Loneliness of the Fold by Jane Burn.
You Know I Don’t Like Grapefruit by Dean Atta.
Mister by Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana.
In This Classic Le***an Love Story by Laura Stanley.
Birds in the Flame Tree by Mark Fiddes.

Thank you to everyone who took the risk to submit.
Thank you for inviting us into the secret places only you knew until we read about them in your poems.

We’re grateful you’re writing.

Keep going.

23/07/2025

Looking forward to this tomorrow night with a couple of favourites and consistent .poetry.festival locals x

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