January 2019
February 2019
Jane Slavin, Joseph Butler and Hannah Lowe at the Poetry Café: National Poetry Competition readings
L-R: Jane Slavin, Joseph Butler, Hannah Lowe (photo: Hayley Madden) Before the winners are announced in March for 2018's competition, a chance to hear National Poetry Competition 2017 commended poets Jane Slavin and Joseph Butler, whose poems last year reached the top 10 out of over 13,000 entries. They will read alongside poet Hannah Lowe, one of the three judges of that year's competition, who will be reading from her new chapbook The Neighbourhood. Jane Slavin works as a communications…
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March 2019
Peggy Poole Award readings – Yvonne Reddick and Deryn Rees-Jones at The Bluecoat
The Poetry Society presents a special event featuring readings and Q & A from poet Yvonne Reddick, the winner of the inaugural Peggy Poole Award – a new talent development award recognising emerging writers in the North West of England – alongside the judge of this year’s competition, celebrated poet and critic Deryn Rees-Jones. Yvonne Reddick is the author of Ted Hughes: Environmentalist and Ecopoet and Translating Mountains, which was selected as a favourite pamphlet of 2017 in the Times Literary Supplement. She has received a…
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