The Poetry Exchange – Pop Up Poetry Swap (8th May)
Meet a poem, meet a friend! Pick a poem. Pair up. Talk about it together. Swap! Come along from 12.30 – 2.30 Monday, 8th May, and join The Poetry Exchange team […]
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From the poet’s mouth: Poetry, culture and the literary scene in Tübingen (Poetry reading, 26th and 27th April)
Is there something divine in everyday life? Is there a source of human cognition and feelings? On 26 and 27 April, two young writers from the University of Tübingen will read […]
Celebrate World Poetry Day with these essays on poetry across cultures
Happy World Poetry Day 2017! World Poetry Day is led by UNESCO, in recognition of the way in which poetry “reaffirms our common humanity by revealing to us that individuals, […]
‘Such a death were sweet’: Invitingly Deadly Waters in the Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith
“Not Waving but Drowning.” The best-known quote of the British poet Stevie Smith exemplifies her fascination with water, drowning and death. Geraldine Bell (University of Leicester) follows the flow of these […]
Celebrate Northern Poetry on Basil Bunting’s Birthday (Poetry readings, 1st March)
Celebrate the birthday of the great Northumbrian Modernist poet, Basil Bunting, on Wednesday 1st March. Join the Centre for Poetry and Poetics at an afternoon of talks and readings with the […]
