The #InternationalPoetrySymposium starts THURSDAY 9th May 1pm @NorthernStage with a session on how to start writing poetry.

Join for hot tips from #LenPennie ✨Lentil Pentil✨ #CAConrad CAConrad & Kayo Chingonyi @kayochingonyi now chaired by Degna Stone.

northernstage.co.uk/whats-on/npf-2…

#NEWCASTLE ! Last chance to book for #InternationalPoetrySymposium tomorrow 9-10th May to open NCLA Newcastle Poetry Festival!
🌎20 world poets read & discuss place, refuge, exile, inclusivity & more. Book now for as little as £12 for a day pass! > poetrybooks.co.uk/pages/northern…

🌍So excited to reveal our PBS & NCLA #InternationalPoetrySymposium at Newcastle Poetry Festival!
📚Join us for inspiring poetry from Newcastle to Switzerland, US, Canada, Ukraine, Iran, Bhutan & beyond.
🌍Find your PLACE in poetry 9th-10th May > poetrybooks.co.uk/pages/northern…

Only TWO days to our #InternationalPoetrySymposium @NorthernStage NCLA Newcastle Poetry Festival! Don't miss this momentous gathering of 20 world poets 9-10th May on PLACE featuring Helen Mort Marjorie Lotfi @KayoChingonyi charlotte shevchenko knight & more > poetrybooks.co.uk/pages/northern…

A late muse this week, but we really wanted to shout about the release of Poems as Friends from The Poetry Exchange! Read all about it here: mailchi.mp/poetrybooksoci…

Lots of interesting events lined up at NCLA' Newcastle Poetry Festival next week, including this PoetryBookSoc Northern Poetry Symposium panel discussion on ‘Poetry of Witness and Refuge’ featuring Carolyn Forché and Marjorie Lotfi.

🤓This will be an exciting event for those writing about natural landscapes 🗻🌊🐟We look forward to hosting this global panel of Sonam Pem Tshoki, Alycia Pirmohamed, Helen Mort & Rolf Hermann ⛰️📚

🤓This is an important panel featuring leading diaspora poets on topics of exile and refuge. We look forward to hearing poets Carolyn Forché, Marjorie Lotfi Charlotte Shevchenko Knight & Yousif M. Qasmiyah on Fri 10 May 12-1pm

🎫newcastlepoetryfestival.co.uk

What better way to celebrate May Day than with our Summer Recommendation MAY DAY by Jackie Kay.

A rousing collection of powerful & moving poems from a life in protest.

Join the Poetry Book Society as a Complete Member for your copy in our Summer #bookbox poetrybooks.co.uk/collections/me…

It's always great to see new bookshops opening in the North East. Don't miss Heaton’s new independent bookshop, 1b Books! Open Tues - Sat 10am - 5pm. (Sun 10am - 4pm.) Pop in and have a look at 1b Bolingbroke St. Newcastle, NE6 5PH.
#BooksAreMyBag #newcastleuk #indie #shoplocal

Happy book birthday to our Summer Translation Choice! Real by Karin Karakaşli, translated by Canan Marașligil with Sarah Howe, published by Poetry Translation Centre.

📚Join today as a World Poetry or Complete Member for your copy in the Summer #bookbox > poetrybooks.co.uk/collections/me…

Book now for the PoetryBookSoc & NCLA
#InternationalPoetrySymposium @NorthernStage
9-10th May. Inspiring discussions & performances from 20 world-class poets inc. CAConrad, Kayo Chingonyi & Len Pennie from Newcastle to Switzerland, US to Bhutan: tinyurl.com/5cdwu8st

🌞We can't wait to share our Summer Selections with you! Join our global poetry community today for exciting new releases by Paul Muldoon, Jackie Kay, Tamar Yoseloff, Hannah Copley and Harry Josie Giles.
📚New members get a FREE book & £10 voucher too! poetrybooks.co.uk/collections/me…

“There’s more days past than ahead of you
Now you can begin”

- Great to see recent PBS Recommendation Kathleen Jamie Hexham Book Festival New Writing North

Wish I could get to this one. Looks absolutely inspiring.