Events & Conference

This year's festival involves Poetry@Leeds poets Simon Armitage reading from his translation of Gilgamesh, presenting the Young Poet Laureate Prize, and in conversation with John Cooper Clarke, as well as Kimberly Campanello speaking about the Seacroft Canto with poets based at Chapel FM Arts Centre, and Gracie Marsh reading and speaking about her work published...

Poetry@Leeds will be at Ilkley Literature Festival. Participating poets include J.R. Carpenter (p a u s e., Broken Sleep Books), Kris Johnson, (Vast Kingdom of Nowhere, Bloodaxe), Jennifer Wong (Light Year, Nine Arches Press), Michael Sutton (The White Hart, The Red Ceiling Press) and Kimberly Campanello (An Interesting Detail, Bloomsbury).