An evening of discussions and readings with acclaimed poets Michael Nardone (Montréal) and Steven Zultanski (Copenhagen) alongside writers from the postgraduate Kerning workshop group. Join us at the Workshop Theatre for a special evening of conversations about contemporary poetry, cross-arts collaboration and editorial practice with two special guests: Montréal-based poet and editor Michael Nardone, and...
Join us for an evening of poetry and conversation with poet J.R. Carpenter and meteorologist Doug Parker to launch J. R.’s new poetry collection Measures of Weather (Shearsman Books, 2025). Everyone is welcome and admission is free, but please book your ticket via Eventbrite here. Measures of Weather is about more than just weather. Even...
Venezuelan poet Adalber Salas Hernandez will be reading (in Spanish and English) from his latest collection Isolario/Islarium, published by Peepal Tree Press, in the Alumni Room in the School of English on Cavendish Road at 7pm on 25 March. Adalber is an essayist and translator. He is the author of several books of poems, including...
The University of Leeds Poetry Centre is co-hosting Summit: A Poetry School Festival, a landmark ecopoetry, nature, and climate writing festival, in collaboration with Poetry School, National Landscapes, the Laurel Prize, the National Poetry Centre, and Yorkshire Sculpture Park. The inaugural edition of the event will bring together some of the UK’s most celebrated writers and ecological thinkers for two days...
Image: Andrew Dunn Midsummer Muse: Readings by Poets with links to the University of Leeds Poetry Centre Join the University of Leeds Poetry Centre on Thursday June 20th at 7pm for a midsummer celebration of poetry with readings by poets Zaffar Kunial, Helen Mort, John Whale, Rachel Bower, Jess Richards, and Matt Howard. Time:...
Join us on the evening of May 8th for the launch of Matt Howard's second collection, Broadlands (Bloodaxe, 2024). Everyone is welcome and admission is free, but please book your ticket via Eventbrite here. The poems of Matt Howard’s Broadlands are grounded in the reedbeds, meadows and marshes of the Norfolk Broads. They are closely...
The University of Leeds Poetry Centre is hosting the northern launch of Magma magazine's latest issue 'Underworld' at which the editors Leo Boix, Ella Duffy, and Kate Simpson will introduce some of the poets featured in this 88th issue of the magazine: Jason Allen-Paisant, Rachel Bower, Linda France, Matt Howard, Zaffar Kunial, and Yvonne Reddick....
Join us in the Workshop Theatre on January 18 at 18.30 for a poetry reading by George Szirtes and Karl O'Hanlon. George Szirtes is an internationally acclaimed poet and translator and the winner of numerous literary prizes, including the T. S. Eliot Prize. Karl O'Hanlon's pamphlet And Now They Range was published by Guillemot in...
Colleague Zaffar Kunial will be reading from England's Green (Faber 2022) in the Workshop Theatre at 17.30 on Tuesday December 12. This collection was shortlisted for the Laurel Prize and recently won the Ledbury Hellens Poetry Prize worth £5,000. Admission is free. All are welcome.
The University of Leeds Poetry Centre and the Centre for World Literatures/International Writers at Leeds present a reading and discussion of poetry from Sri Lanka with the poets Vidyan Ravinthiran, Pireeni Sundaralingam and Shash Trevett. They will be reading from the new Bloodaxe Anthology Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala and English Poetry from Sri...
