Newcastle Poetry Festival

This new three day festival kicked-off in 2015 organised by Newcastle University’s Centre for the Literary Arts (NCLA). It marked the culmination of an 18-month project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) cataloguing, creating digital access to, and creatively exploring the extensive archives of Bloodaxe Books, acquired two years ago by Newcastle University.

Looks like funding has been secured for 2016 and back again with a May date.

When? 5th-7th May 2016

Where? All events take place at Northern Stage, Newcastle Upon Tyne.

All events are free, but ticketed. Poetry Festival Day Passes for Friday and Saturday can be ordered from the Newcastle University WebStore.

Who? 2016 TBA

Website? Newcastle Poetry Festival

Facebook? Newcastle Poetry Festival

Festival Director? Guest Director 2016 : Carolyn Forché

Past Festivals? Inaugural event in 2015

Newcastle Poetry Festival Programme 2015

2015 - Sean O’Brien, Rebecca Perry, Niall Campbell and Vidyan Ravinithiran +

Also poets from the USA, Canada, Jamaica, France and Italy. Among them, George Szirtes, also a T. S. Eliot prize winner, as well as Kei Miller, recent winner of the Forward prize, and the multi-award winning poet Michael Longley. View full programme below.