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Review: Patience Agbabi at Inspire Poetry Festival

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

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: 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...

10 Events to Go to During Nottingham Poetry Festival 2019

19 April 19

We run down some of the must-see events from this year's Nottingham Poetry Festival... 

Snap Notts: Wollaton Park

07 April 19

Snap Notts: Hyson Green

06 March 19

Snap Notts: Church Rock Cemetery

10 February 19

Proper Good Poetry Stuff To Do In Notts

06 February 19

Here's a list of what we think are the best poetry events happening in Nottingham...

Snap Notts: Waterfront

05 January 19

This month, our poet took inspiration from the canal...

Snap Notts: Nottingham City Centre on a Saturday Night

06 December 18

Snap Notts: The Arboretum

04 November 18

This month's latest installment of Snap Notts - the series where photographers and poets are paired up and sent to an area to get inspired... 

Notts Poet and Austerity Opposer Lytisha Tunbridge Tells Her Story

23 October 18

Lytisha Tunbridge won the Expanding Horizons Award 2018 at Nottingham Writers’ Studio, for her work supporting World Jam, DIY Poets, Poetry Aloud, Poets Against Racism, Social Model Writers, Sisterhood and Solidarity, Support the NHS, Young Voices, Reading with Dementia, and We Shall Overcome. Somehow she managed to find the time to share some words with us, and tell us her story...

Violets are Blue: Miggy Angel Launches New Poetry Collection

09 October 18

Miggy Angel is a locally loved poet based in Nottingham, having moved originally from London with his family fifteen years ago. Last Friday, Miggy took to Waterstones' Sillitoe Suite to launch his latest collection Extreme Violets, and we sent our Benjamin Knight down to check it out. 

Our Nottingham Things

04 October 18

Snap Notts: Lenton

04 October 18

Henry Normal on His New Poetry Collection and Preparing for Live Shows

27 September 18

The ever delightful poet, producer and screen-writer, Henry Normal, sat down for a quick chat about his latest poetry collection, This Phantom Breath, and what to expect from his upcoming live show, Nature V Human Nature.... 
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