Inspire Poetry Festival 2019 BRINGING POETRY to BEESTON, MANSFIELD CENTRAL, SOUTHWELL, WEST BRIDGFORD and WORKSOP LIBRARIES, and the OLD LIBRARY, MANSFIELD

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WELCoME To inSPiRE PoETRY FESTiVAL 2019 BRINGING POETRY TO BEESTON, MANSFIELD CENTRAL, SOUTHWELL, WEST BRIDGFORD AND WORKSOP LIBRARIES, AND THE OLD LIBRARY, MANSFIELD

Featuring celebrated poetry stars, regional favourites Booking and cutting-edge newcomers, and with styles ranging from the formal lyric to freestyle spoken word, this year’s festival promises a plethora of poetry delights at venues Tickets for events can be booked: around the county. online: www.inspireculture.org.uk/ We’re hugely excited to welcome the much-garlanded poetry-festival Patience Agbabi, Colette Bryce and Jacob Polley for By phone via Ask inspire: the ﬁrst time, alongside multiple prize-winning young 01623 677 200 poets Raymond Antrobus and Birmingham-based or in person at any of the nafeesa Hamid. Festival libraries.

Wendy Cope returns for Afternoon Tea, george Szirtes Tickets are non-refundable except headlines Word!, John Harvey celebrates turning 80 where an event is cancelled. and Notts-based Andrew graves is back by popular Programme is subject to change. demand!

Alongside readings and performances, we have Access information workshops to develop your writing skills with Deborah All our festival venues are accessible to Tyler-Bennett, a poetry masterclass with Colette Bryce, wheelchair users, and full access details on and special sessions to enhance your poetry reading all venues is available on request from Ask enjoyment with Jenny Swann. Inspire. Please notify us on booking if you require a wheelchair space or have any There’s also a touring exhibition of heartfelt poems and speciﬁc access needs. beautiful photographs, a ﬁlm about Keats, opportunities Email: [email protected] for open mic performers, community events at Phone: 01623 677 200 Southwell Library and a free Poetry Takeover day for everyone to enjoy. A large print version of this brochure is available on request. Whether you’re already a poetry reader, writer, student or teacher, or a complete newcomer, join us this September to enjoy a week of wonderful words in the nottslibraries #inspirepofest welcoming surroundings of your libraries. inspireculture.org.uk

Thank you! Thanks to our booksellers; Five Leaves and The Bookcase, Lowdham, and to LeftLion for their continued support of the festival.

Front cover: John Harvey, Nafeesa Hamid, Patience Agbabi, Andrew Graves, Raymond Antrobus, Jacob Polley, Colette Bryce, Wendy Cope 03 tHURsday 5 - sUnday 29 septembeR

Poet, playwright and performer Ben Norris worked with four very diﬀerent groups across Nottinghamshire to develop a body of poems that express their emotions, experiences and stories.

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eXHibition With very special thanks to the groups involved: Woodleigh Christian Care Home, Mansﬁeld; VoiCes at inspiRe Building Bridges, West Bridgford; Bassetlaw Day Service, Worksop and Nottingham and poetRy FestiVaL Nottinghamshire Refugee Forum, Youth Project. mansFieLd CentRaL LibRaRy thursday 5 - sunday 29 september A printed anthology of the poems and Free photographs featured in the exhibition will be distributed to all Inspire libraries during Inspire Voices presents a thought-provoking collection Poetry Festival. of poetry created by and with people whose voices, for health, social or age-related reasons, Voices is touring Inspire Libraries until April 2020. may rarely be heard, combined with For details visit inspireculture.org.uk/voices photographs of those involved.

LaUnCH eVent VoiCes: antHoLogy LaUnCH mansFieLd CentRaL LibRaRy saturday 28 september, 11am Free | booking advised

Join us to celebrate the launch of Voices – the anthology based on the project and exhibition.

Gain an insight into this inspiring project and enjoy readings from poet Ben Norris.

Voices was a community poetry project led and facilitated by writer and performer Ben Norris, with photographs by lens-based artist Ben Harriott, in collaboration with Inspire: Culture, Learning & Libraries. It was supported with funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

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HeadLine peRFoRmanCe “His insights into the asLant bUt minds and hearts of stiLL standing… others – there is a tenderness here that JoHn HaRVey at 80 many British poets do beeston LibRaRy 7pm not risk.” £8 John Burnside on Bluer Than This booking advised adults (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult) "One of our most Novelist, poet, dramatist and sometime publisher, John Harvey has accomplished writers... been a professional writer for some forty years. The ﬁrst of his Charlie Resnick series, Lonely Hearts , was named by The Times as in any genre." one of the 100 most notable crime novels of the last century, and in Daily Telegraph 2007 he was the recipient of the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger for Sustained Excellence in Crime Writing. He has been awarded Honorary Doctorates by the Universities of both Nottingham and Hertfordshire.

His latest poetry collection, Aslant, is published by Shoestring Press. BOOK ONLINE inspiReCULtURe.oRg.Uk Join him to hear a reading of his ‘new and selected’ poems, along with the odd anecdote, in celebration of his life in writing. /poetRy-FestiVaL 05 tUesday 24 septembeR t t e n n s e i B D

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WRiting WoRksHop FiLm HeadLine peRFoRmanCe CReating bRigHt staR (pg) poetRy CaFÉ inspiRed images mansFieLd CentRaL LibRaRy WitH JoHn 3pm WitH deboRaH £2 HaRVey tyLeR-bennett booking available at 80: a soUtHWeLL LibRaRy Written and directed by CeLebRation 11am – 1pm Oscar-winner Jane Campion WoRksop LibRaRy £5 (The Piano ), Bright Star tells the 6.30pm booking essential story of the three-year romance £6 adults between 19th-century Romantic booking advised poet John Keats and Fanny adults (under 18s to be A workshop using pictorial Brawne, near the end of his life. accompanied images with a local flavour, which by an adult) Nottinghamshire-born poet and Together they rode a wave of fiction writer Deborah romantic obsession that Author of the celebrated Tyler-Bennett will provide. The deepened as their troubles Notts-based Charlie Resnick workshop exercises will help you mounted. series of crime novels, John explore ideas of tone, rhythm, Harvey’s latest poetry collection detail and narrative voice. Come Aslant is published by Shoestring along, be inspired, and have a go Press. at creating a piece of work from scratch. Join him to hear about his life in writing, including how a crime novelist approaches poetry, and CommUnity Hexameter is a group of six poets put your own questions to John peRFoRmanCe from Leicester, Lincoln, over drinks and refreshments HeXameteR Nottinghamshire and Sheffield during this relaxed Poetry Café whose work has been published in session. FOLLOWED national and international journals BY OPEN MIC such as Acumen, Dream Catcher, “. . .a uniquely readable soUtHWeLL LibRaRy Magma and The North. Join them to enjoy a selection of poetry from 7.30pm poet of great integrity.” contemporary voices. To perform at £3 Andy Brown on Bluer Than This the open mic please apply in booking advised person at Southwell library. Places limited. 06 INSPIRECULTURE.ORG.UK/POETRY-FESTIvAL

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£7 / £5 booking advised adults (under 18s to be accompanied by an adult)

Join WORD! - one of the longest running poetry nights in the UK and former Saboteur Award Nominee - for this very special Beeston Library, Inspire Poetry Festival edition, with poet and compere Lydia Towsey, special y guests - and the multi-award winning George Szirtes. l a z r o g o P george szirtes was born in Hungary in 1948. His ﬁrst a n e z r book of poems The Slant Door won the Geoﬀrey Faber a M

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College and an Honorary Doctorate from the University o e of East Anglia. He has won numerous international prizes G for his poetry, and the Man Booker International Prize for his translations of novels by László Krasznahorkai. His latest work The Photographer at Sixteen (Maclehose Press, 2019) has attracted unanimous praise from across both the media and the literary community.

Don’t miss this exciting opportunity to see him in Beeston and be part of what’s sure to be a truly outstanding evening. praise for The Photographer at Sixteen by george szirtes: “A courageous and remarkable achievement. I’ve read no memoir that moved me more.” Miranda Seymour, Financial Times.

To perform on the open mic, email Lydia Towsey in advance via [email protected]. Some spots may also be available on the night. 07 Wednesday 25 septembeR

Reading WoRksHop Join Jenny Swann as we all eVeRytHing expose our own ignorance, misunderstandings and general yoU Wanted confusion on the path to to knoW enlightenment. By the end, we’re hoping that all of us will be the aboUt poetRy richer for sharing our unknowns bUt didn’t and our humanity, and will come to poetry with renewed daRe ask excitement and faith in our own WoRksop LibRaRy thought-processes. 10.30am – 12pm mansFieLd CentRaL LibRaRy If there’s a particular poem that 2 - 3.30pm has always stumped you, or left £5 you blank, or made you hate it, booking essential bring it along to share and adults discuss! Poetry is an adventure. Some of Find out more about our us set oﬀ fearful that everybody workshop leaders on page 18. else understands what’s going on in a poem, whereas we may feel confused, inadequate, BOOK ONLINE bewildered even. Some poems inspiReCULtURe.oRg.Uk speak to one person but not another. This workshop explores /poetRy-FestiVaL a selection of poems to see whether and how they work. 08 INSPIRECULTURE.ORG.UK/POETRY-FESTIvAL r e g d e l P

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HeadLine peRFoRmanCe Jacob polley won the 2016 andrew graves regularly T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry for his performs his work throughout JaCob fourth book of poems Jackself the UK. The Nottingham poet which was described by the has featured on BBC 6 Music’s poLLey judges as ‘a ﬁrework of a book; Cerys Matthews Show and the inventive, exciting and BBC 4 documentary Evidently and outstanding in its imaginative John Cooper Clarke . His third range and depth of feeling.’ A collection Not Dancing with andReW poet of the uncanny and the Ingrid Pitt will be published by startlingly lyrical, Jacob’s work Burning Eye Books in 2020. He gRaVes explores his rural upbringing, has performed with the likes of West bRidgFoRd LibRaRy the forces of tradition and Sleaford Mods, John Hegely and 7.30pm history, and the power of speech Henry Normal and been £10 as it approaches song. Born in commissioned by the National booking advised Cumbria, Jacob now lives and Portrait Gallery, BBC Radio 4 and adults (under 18s to be works in Newcastle. Edinburgh International accompanied by an adult) Literature Festival. He recently “. . .one of his generation’s represented the East Midlands Our Wednesday night headline most compelling voices, a for National Poetry Day. event features two hugely talented contemporary poets. poet building his own world for us book by book.” Jules Smith, britishcouncil.org,uk 09 on Jacob Polley tHURsday 26 septembeR

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WRiting WoRksHop peRFoRmanCe Ways WitH papeR CRane: WoRds beeston LibRaRy sHoWCase 2 – 4pm beeston LibRaRy £5 7pm booking essential Free* adults booking advised adults (Under 18s to be accompanied by an adult) This workshop, created by published poet and ﬁction writer Join Beeston Library’s newest resident poetry collective for a Deborah Tyler-Bennett, gets fantastic evening of original spoken word at Beeston Library. writers developing their skills via Weaving humour, social commentary, beauty and truth to create an exercise based around an an eclectic tapestry of stories, this selection of new writing and object, which the writer will performance will make you feel all the feelings! provide. Featuring local poets with something to say, plus a few special So, come along and have a go at guests (to be announced) it’s the perfect way to enjoy a Thursday writing and polishing as you go – evening! and create a piece of new work you can be proud of! *Tickets to this showcase are free. Paper Crane Poets will hold a Pay What You Like collection after the event . Find out more about our workshop leaders on page 18. paper Crane workshops are held every 1st and 3rd tuesday of the month at beeston Library. new members are welcome; email [email protected] for further details or visit inspireculture.org.uk/papercrane

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HeadLine peRFoRmanCe LiVe at tHe oLd LibRaRy: Raymond antRobUs tHe oLd LibRaRy, Leeming stReet, mansFieLd (british sign Language interpreted performance) 7.30pm £7 / £5 booking advised adults (16+)

This year’s Live at The Old Library festival headliner is the brilliant Raymond Antrobus whose Ted Hughes award-winning work explores wide-ranging themes from deafness and race to dementia, death and masculinity.

Raymond antrobus was born in London to an English mother and Jamaican father and is the author of To Sweeten Bitter (Out-Spoken “Antrobus interlaces wit Press), and The Perseverance and pathos as he examines (Penned In The Margins) which was awarded the UK Poetry Book his identity as a deaf Society’s Winter Choice in 2018 and British-Jamaican man in a awarded the Ted Hughes award in 2019. world between sign language and speech.” He is a founding member of Chill Pill and Keats House Poets Forum and Jeremy Noel-Tod, one of the world’s ﬁrst recipients of Sunday Times an MA in Spoken Word education from Goldsmiths University. In 2018 he was awarded The Geoﬀrey Dearmer Prize (judged by Ocean vuong).

In 2019 he became the ﬁrst ever poet to be awarded the Rathbone Folio Prize for best work of literature in any genre.

This performance will be BSL interpreted.

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Reading WoRksHop eVeRytHing beCome a yoU Wanted poetRy FestiVaL to knoW sponsoR in 2020! aboUt poetRy Does your business want to bUt didn’t support the arts and libraries? Are you seeking daRe ask an association with high West bRidgFoRd LibRaRy quality profile-raising 10.30am – 12pm events locally or beeston LibRaRy county-wide? Could your 2 - 3.30pm charitable or community £5 donation enable a young booking essential person to develop their adults writing talent? A range of sponsorship and bursary Poetry is an adventure. Some packages are available at of us set off fearful that affordable rates for “A good poem everybody else understands businesses and what’s going on in a poem, organisations. helps to whereas we may feel confused, inadequate, To request an Inspire change the bewildered even. Some poems Poetry Festival 2020 speak to one person but not sponsorship pack, or to shape of the another. This workshop arrange a discussion about explores a selection of poems opportunities, contact the universe, to see whether and how they festival leads at work. reading@inspireculture. helps to org.uk Join Jenny Swann as we all extend expose our own ignorance, misunderstandings and everyone’s general confusion on the path to enlightenment. By the end, knowledge of we’re hoping that all of us will be the richer for sharing our himself and unknowns and our humanity, and will come to poetry with renewed excitement and faith the world in our own thought-processes.

around him.” If there’s a particular poem that Dylan Thomas has always stumped you, or left you blank, or made you hate it, bring it along to share and discuss! BOOK ONLINE Find out more about our inspiReCULtURe.oRg.Uk workshop leaders on page 18. /poetRy-FestiVaL

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HeadLine peRFoRmanCe patience agbabi’s poetry has been featured on radio and Tv worldwide and patienCe agbabi she has spent over 20 years celebrating soUtHWeLL LibRaRy the written and spoken word. Her poem, 7.30pm ‘The Doll’s House’, was shortlisted for the £10 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem 2014. booking strongly advised She studied English Language and adults (Under 18s to be Literature at Oxford University and is a accompanied by an adult) former Poet Laureate of Canterbury. The author of four books, her latest, Telling Patience Agbabi is a poet much celebrated for paying Tales (Canongate, 2014) , is a vivid retelling equal homage to literature and performance. Born in of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales for the London to Nigerian parents and fostered in a white 21 st century and was shortlisted for the Ted English family in North Wales, her work moves nimbly Hughes Prize for New Work in Poetry 2014 between cultures, dialects and voices, and between and Wales Book of the Year 2015. page and stage. Join us for what promises to be her striking and compelling Southwell debut. “… honest, darkly funny and endlessly creative, she takes the sonnet, chats it up, tattoos it, gives it some motherly advice and then sends it away again .”

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Poetry is an adventure. Some of us set off fearful A workshop using pictorial images with a local that everybody else understands what’s going on in flavour, which Nottinghamshire-born poet and a poem, whereas we may feel confused, fiction writer Deborah Tyler-Bennett will inadequate, bewildered even. Some poems speak provide. The workshop exercises will help you to one person but not another. This workshop explore ideas of tone, rhythm, detail and explores a selection of poems to see whether and narrative voice. Come along, be inspired, and how they work. have a go at creating a piece of work from scratch. Join Jenny Swann as we all expose our own ignorance, misunderstandings and general confusion For more details about workshop leaders on the path to enlightenment. By the end, we’re see page 18. hoping that all of us will be the richer for sharing our unknowns and our humanity, and will come to poetry with renewed excitement and faith in our own thought-processes. If there’s a particular poem that has always stumped you, or left you blank, bring it along to share and discuss!

CommUnity peRFoRmanCe Southwell writer Alison Chippindale, who appeared at the Library last year FRom CHoCoLate with her collection Mug Without a to opeRa Handle , returns to share her poetic soUtHWeLL LibRaRy observations about ageing, in an 12.30 – 1.30pm event subtitled ‘Getting Older: One £3 Woman’s Experience’. 14 15 INSPIRECULTURE.ORG.UK/POETRY-FESTIvAL

HeadLine peRFoRmanCe aFteRnoon tea WitH Wendy Cope soUtHWeLL LibRaRy 3.30pm £12 including tea and cake booking strongly advised | adults

Wendy Cope burst onto the poetry scene with her Wendy Cope was born in Erith, Kent. After university first collection, Making Tea for Kingsley Amis (Faber, she worked for fifteen years as a primary school 1986) and rapidly established herself as one of teacher in London before becoming a writer and Britain’s best-loved poets. Her witty, light-hearted critic. She has published five collections of poems for style and talent for parody often belie a serious adults and two for children, and edited numerous intent and she has been described as a natural anthologies. She has received a Cholmondeley Award successor to Betjeman and Larkin. It has been seven for poetry and won the American Academy of Arts years since her last performance at Southwell and Letters Michael Braude Award for light verse. She Library and we’re delighted to welcome her back for received an OBE in 2010. Her most recent collection, an afternoon of brilliant verse and delicious cakes. Anecdotal Evidence , was published last year.

Wendy Cope, photo: Adrian Harvey

“One has to go back to Byron to ﬁnd a poet as consistently witty, wide-ranging, and technically outstanding as Cope.”

Los Angeles Review of Books

Our poetry takeover returns for poetRy 2019! visit the library between takeoVeR 11 and 3 on the closing day of beeston , mansFieLd , the festival and you’re in for a soUtHWeLL , poetry surprise. Have a go at West bRidgFoRd giant magnetic poetry, let the AND WoRksop little ones enjoy the children’s LibRaRies poetry trail, create your poems 11am – 3pm from book titles using our 15 Free, Just drop in self-serve kiosks and more. satURday 28 septembeR

WRiting WoRksHop poetRy masteRCLass WitH CoLette bRyCe West bRidgFoRd LibRaRy 2.30 – 4.30pm £15 booking essential adults

This year’s festival brings the opportunity to enjoy a poetry masterclass led by award-winning poet and former editor of Poetry London magazine Colette Bryce.

In this workshop, conversation will focus on aspects of form and technique, with a view to ﬁne-tuning and editing. Participants will be invited to submit a poem to Colette in advance for feedback during the session.

“Bryce’s phrasing is precise, her word-play sensuous, smart and snappy.”

The Guardian

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HeadLine peRFoRmanCe Colette bryce is the author of nafeesa Hamid is a British four collections with Picador. Pakistani poet, spoken word CoLette Her latest The Whole & artist and playwright based in Rain-domed Universe (2014), the Midlands. Her work focuses bRyCe and which draws on her experience on issues such as mental health, of growing up in Derry during domestic violence, gender, naFeesa the Troubles, was shortlisted for identity and culture. Nafeesa has the Forward and Costa prizes, performed at Cheltenham and Hamid and received a Ewart-Biggs Manchester Literature Festivals West bRidgFoRd LibRaRy Award in memory of Seamus as part of The Things I Would Tell 7.30pm Heaney. She received the You: British Muslim Women Write £10 Cholmondeley Award for Poetry (Saqi Books, 2017) - an booking advised in 2010 and her Selected Poems anthology edited by Sabrina adults (under 18s to be was a PBS Special Mahfouz. Her debut collection accompanied by an adult) Commendation and won the Besharam was published in 2018 Pigott Prize for Poetry in 2018. by verve Poetry Press. West Bridgford Library’s second festival headline event features Colette is a freelance writer and two striking poetic voices. former editor of Poetry London magazine. She lives in Newcastle upon Tyne.

“Besharam is an outstanding collection from Nafeesa… I think her poems are very

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The festival offers reading and writing workshops running across several libraries during deborah tyler-bennett is a Jenny swann is a publisher and the festival, led by two widely-published poet and poetry consultant. She set up wonderful poets with a wealth fiction writer who has produced and ran Candlestick Press from of experience to share: seven full-length poetry 2008-2016 and now runs One collections and three short story Plum Poem, working on all collections alongside numerous things poetry, including appearances in poetry producing poetry cards and “Poetry is anthologies and magazines. Her poetry podcasts. Her own forthcoming volume, Ken Dodd poetry has been published in language Takes a Holiday , is out from three collections and broadcast King’s England Press this year, on BBC Radio 4. She has led at its most and her first novel Livin’ In a poetry workshops and other Great Big Way is in preparation events at libraries in Manchester distilled for the same publisher. She and Nottingham and in the edited The Coffee House Manchester Art Gallery, the v&A and most anthology from Charnwood Arts and other UK galleries. over fifteen years and is a powerful.” regular poetry reviewer. She has plus: This year’s festival brings run workshops in venues the wonderful opportunity to Rita Dove including schools, galleries and attend a poetry masterclass led museums, and is a prolific by acclaimed poet Colette performer of her work. bryce who will also be reading at one of our headline events. See page 16.

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VenUes southwell Library booking The Bramley Centre beeston Library King Street Tickets for events can be Foster Avenue Southwell booked: Beeston Nottinghamshire Online: Nottingham NG9 1AE NG25 0EH www.inspireculture.org.uk/ Ask Inspire 01623 677 200 Ask Inspire 01623 677 200 poetry-festival By phone via Ask Inspire: mansfield West bridgford Library 01623 677 200 Central Library Bridgford Road Or in person at any of the Four Seasons Centre West Bridgford Festival libraries. West Gate Nottingham Mansfield NG2 6AT Tickets are non-refundable Nottinghamshire Ask Inspire 01623 677 200 except where an event is NG18 1NH cancelled. Programme is Ask Inspire 01623 677 200 Worksop Library subject to change. Memorial Avenue the old Library Worksop Leeming Street Nottinghamshire Mansfield S80 2BP “Poetry is Nottinghamshire Ask Inspire 01623 677 200 NG18 1NG a way of Online bookings only: Full venue details, including inspireculture.org.uk/ access details and locations are poetry-festival available at taking life www.inspireculture.org.uk by the throat.”

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5 - 29 Exhibition sept Voices

mon Performance 23 John Harvey 7pm, £8 sept

tUe Performance Film Writing Poetry Café WoRd! bright star Workshop John Harvey 24 with george 3pm, £2 deborah 6.30pm, £6 sept szirtes tyler-bennett 7pm, £7/£5 11am-1pm, £5 Performance Hexameter and open mic 7.30pm, £3

Reading Performance Reading Wed Workshop Jacob polley & Workshop 25 Jenny swann andrew graves Jenny swann sept 2-3.30pm, £5 7.30pm, £10 10.30am-12pm, £5

tHU Writing Workshop Performance 26 deborah Raymond tyler-bennett antrobus sept 2-4pm, £5 7.30pm, £7/£5 Performance paper Crane poets 7pm, Free

FRi Reading Workshop Performance Reading Jenny swann patience agbabi Workshop 27 2-3.30pm, £5 7.30pm, £10 Jenny swann sept 10.30am-12pm, £5

sat poetRy takeoVeR 11am - 3pm, Free, just drop in 28 sept Exhibition Reading Poetry Launch Workshop Masterclass Voices Jenny swann Colette bryce 11am 10.30am-12pm, 2.30-4.30pm, £15 Free £5 Performance Writing Performance Colette bryce Workshop alison and nafeesa deborah Chippindale Hamid tyler-bennett 12.30pm, £3 7.30m, £10 10.30am-12.30pm, Performance £5 Wendy Cope 3.30pm, £12