Nottingham Creative Community News

Poet Leanne Moden on swimming the channel, Wikipedia rabbit holes and accidentally becoming a teenage goth

UNESCO City of Literature, Paper Crane Poets, Poetry Takeaway, DIY Poets… Chances are, if you’re in any way involved in the Notts...

Hockley Hustle and LeftLion Present: Jah Digga and Poets off the Endz Live at Metronome

16 July 21

The second instalment in a series of live sets and interviews featuring some of our favourite Nottingham artists with interviews conducted by our very own Bridie Squires...

Award-Winning TV Producer Henry Normal Brings Live Poetry Show to Metronome

05 July 21

Nottingham-native Henry Normal comes home with a new poetry tour, stopping off at Metronome on Tuesday 16 November. His brand new live show The Escape Plan draws on over forty years of work, featuring stories, jokes and poems from the BBC Radio 4 series and his ten poetry books, including the two latest collections. This is no normal poetry show...

Nottingham Poetry Festival's Creative Director Anne Holloway on Her Career Highlights and What You Can Expect from This Year's Festival

25 June 21

As Creative Director for Nottingham Poetry Festival, founding editor of Big White Shed and a former member of Mouthy Poets, Anne Holloway has just about seen and done it all on the Notts poetry scene. She talked to Bridie Squires about her work, career and what to expect from the upcoming festival...

Poet Joshua Judson on His Latest Collection, Gongoozler

27 May 21

Joshua Judson has released a sick poetry collection with Bad Betty Press. It’s called Gongoozler, i.e. someone who stares at canal traffic. Bridie Squires had a read-through and was blown away, so she slung the fellow Mouthy Poets alumnus a few questions about his crafts and techniques, writing about family memories with a bit of wonk, and why he’s so obsessed with the city’s nauticals.

GOBS: Notts Spoken-Word Collective set for Live Digital Showcase

25 March 21

The dynamic collective of twenty spoken-word artists will be joined by Birmingham Poet Laureate Casey Bailey this Saturday...

Metronome Have Expanded Their Virtual Line Up with Three Events from Nottingham Poetry Festival featuring Henry Normal

12 March 21

Following the success of the virtual festival and a string of gigs at the latter end of 2020, the venue announced further big names for their Metronome Sessions…

Poet Anthony Anaxagorou on Surrealism and Nottingham Poetry Festival 2020

12 November 20

As part of this year’s stellar online Nottingham Poetry Festival line-up, we chat to Anthony Anaxagorou: publisher, writer, poetry educator, Eliot Prize nominee and all-round prolific wordsmith. We talk lockdown, surrealism and his new book How To Write It...

Enter the Nottingham Poetry Hunt and Win Goodies from Rough Trade, Five Leaves Bookshop, Metronome and More...

11 November 20

Like a beacon of light in a seemingly endless sea of darkness, Nottingham Poetry Festival is back with (at time of printing) a nine-day programme of online events, performances and workshops. As part of this year’s festival, you can bag yourself some goodies by taking part in a poetry hunt around the city. Simply use the clues to work out these Nottingham venues – there’s treasure in poetic form waiting to be dug up in their windows, websites and social media pages.

Review: Nafeesa Hamid and Colette Bryce at Inspire Poetry Festival

04 October 19

We caught performances by poets Nafeesa Hamid and Colette Bryce as part of Inspire Poetry Festival...

Review: Patience Agbabi at Inspire Poetry Festival

04 October 19

We got down to Southwell Library to catch revered poet Patience Agbabi, as part of Inspire Poetry Festival...

Review: Paper Cranes Poetry at Inspire Poetry Festival

30 September 19

My first assumption when almost anyone says ‘spoken word’ is of slam poetry – a shouting twenty something with a beanie, comparing their emotions to a ball of yarn or a revolver. I was, however, very pleasantly surprised, when attending Paper Cranes at the Beeston library, to find it was not a group of twenty somethings in beanies, but a collective of individuals eclectic both in age range, and personality...

Snap Notts: River Trent

23 September 19

‘The World Is For Everyone’: Creative Voices of PAMOJA Women Together Group

05 June 19

If you’re not looking for it, you could miss the network of women all around Nottingham who are working their socks off to bring together refugees and welcome them to our communities. Reading, sharing, laughing, crying and integrating to recognise each other through the key thing that they all have in common, regardless of their backgrounds. They are all women. They have all led very different paths to somehow end up here, in Nottingham. I went along to a beautiful afternoon poetry led by the PAMOJA Women’s Group. It moved me to tears. I’ll do my best to justify what a special afternoon this really was…

Snap Notts: Broadway Cinema

03 June 19

Poetry Review: Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies Tour with Buddy Wakefield at Glee Club Nottingham

21 May 19

We were almost all poem'd out after the onslaught of spoken word at Nottingham Poetry Festival, but couldn't resist getting down to Glee Club Nottingham to check out Andrea Gibson's Lord of the Butterflies Tour, supported by Buddy Wakefield...

Andrea Gibson on Poetry, Pronouns, and an Upcoming Glee Club Nottingham Gig

11 May 19

Performance poet Andrea Gibson is currently touring the UK with Buddy Wakefield, and is set to appear at Glee Club Nottingham on Thursday 16 May. We caught up with them ahead of the gig...

Snap Notts: The City Ground

09 May 19

Poet Andrew McMillan on Gearing Up for His Nottingham Poetry Festival Performance

01 May 19

Georgina Wilding spoke to Andrew McMillan ahead of his Metronome show as a part of Nottingham Poetry Festival on Wednesday 1 May...

Review: Casino (Work in Progress) by Bridie Squires

29 April 19

We went to Debbie Bryan's to check out the first steps of Bridie Squires' extended spoken-word poetry performance, Casino, as part of Big White Shed's event at Nottingham Poetry Festival...

The Nottingham Poetry Festival is Returning This April

22 April 19

Now in its fourth year, Nottingham Poetry Festival 2019 looks set to be the biggest and busiest yet, with an eclectic array of events, workshops and performances filling a jam-packed ten-day schedule between 26 April - 5 May, filling venues like Lakeside Arts Centre, New Art Exchange and Metronome. Our Poetry Editor Chris McLoughlin gives us a run down of some of the highlights...