What we’re about
For people who enjoy performing and/listening to poetry.
Regular Poetry Events in Reading:
Dreading Slam at The Rising Sun Arts Centre, Silver Street RG1 2ST on the first Sunday of the Month at 19:30
Poets Café -Open Mic and Guest Poet Readings Second Friday of Each Month 20:00 in South Street Art Centre Reading RG1 4QU.
Friendly atmosphere. New poets and audience welcome.
Upcoming events (4)
See all- POETS' CAFE AT SOUTH STREET Harry Man + Katie Meehan + Open MicSouth Street Arts Centre, Reading
Reading’s longest-running and best-loved poetry platform, Poets’ Café, is organised and hosted by The Poetry Society’s Reading Stanza.
Doors open at 8pm for an 8:30pm start. Tickets are £5 or £4 for concessions (and open mic readers!*) Tickets available here or on the door. *20 SLOTS AVAILIBLE ON A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED BASIS
Harry Man’s Lift (Tall Lighthouse, 2014) won the UNESCO Bridges of Struga Award. His second pamphlet, Finders Keepers, was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. His co-collection, authored with Endre Ruset, Deretter (‘Thereafter*’,* Flamme Forlag, 2021) won the Stephen Spender Prize and was a Dagblaget and Broken Sleep Books Book of the Year. He was shortlisted for Tees Valley Artist of the Year 2024. His first collection Popular Song (2024) is published by Nine Arches Press. He has translated Endre Ruset’s poetry collection Noriaki into English which is available from Broken Sleep Books. He is the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Newcastle University and lives in County Durham. www.manmadebooks.co.uk
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