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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...
Please join us for a celebration of creative writing in the School of English – as a welcome to the new Douglas Caster Fellow, Dr Kris Johnson, and a book launch for Dr Jess Richards. Kris joins the School of English this semester, and will be reading from her debut collection of poetry Ghost River...
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). Poetry@Leeds is also contributing to the Word Up North New Northern Poets development...
Local poet Tom Branfoot launches his debut collection Volatile, with readings from J. R. Carpenter and David Dobson. Tom Branfoot's debut poetry collection explores nature during a time of political crisis, drawing its title from the Middle English use of 'volatile' to name birds and other winged creatures. Pulling apart what it means to dwell,...
Poetry@Leeds poet J.R. Carpenter is making two contributions to Light Night 2026. a solo digital text projection piece called “Scores for Walking” Journey through the Yorkshire Dales like never before with J.R. Carpenter’s Scores for Walking; a constantly evolving text-based projection. Generated by the artist’s online writing machine, the projections present a new performance prompt every...