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Title: Dundee Literary Festival

Location: Dundee, Scotland, UK
Description: When the Dundee Literary Festival started, in 2007, it was almost entirely handmade – the Dundee University team made each one of the 2000 tickets with a colour printer and a guillotine, we put leaflets through doors and sellotaped posters round the town. One of our chairs, a TV presenter, made cups of tea for visitors and we all made some cakes to tempt the authors.

Now, in 2012, the festival is bigger, slicker and altogether more professional, but it hasn’t lost its heart. We have a wonderful mix of events from literary fiction, poetry, sports, music, food, workshops, history, adventuring and lots of events for kids. The programme is a triumph,world class authors coming to Dundee to read from new work, let us into the secrets of their success as well as local authors, debut authors and even some killer events.

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Start Date: October 24, 2012
End Date: October 28, 2012

Title: The Ted Hughes Festival

Location: Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire, England
Description: The Elmet Trust celebrates Ted Hughes’ connection with the locality he grew up in, which plays such a central role in his poetry. Hughes had a rare gift and a unique voice, both crafted and forged in West Yorkshire. By holding the Ted Hughes Festival in Mytholmroyd and area, the village of Hughes’ upbringing, readings, events and discussions take on a special significance.

Kathleen Jamie will read at this year’s festival.

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Start Date: October 19, 2012
End Date: October 21, 2012

Title: Getting Into Poetry I

Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Description: The Scottish Poetry Library offers this friendly and encouraging ‘absolute beginners’ course on reading poetry for pleasure. Explore rhyme and form. Go beyond the printed page. Discover new poetry with expert advice. Develop your reading strengths. Pick up a ‘toolkit’ of technical terms. Get a personal plan of what to read next.

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Date: November 6, 2012

Title: Getting Into Poetry I

Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Description: The Scottish Poetry Library offers this friendly and encouraging ‘absolute beginners’ course on reading poetry for pleasure. Explore rhyme and form. Go beyond the printed page. Discover new poetry with expert advice. Develop your reading strengths. Pick up a ‘toolkit’ of technical terms. Get a personal plan of what to read next.

Learn more here.

Date: October 30, 2012

Title: Getting Into Poetry I

Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Description: The Scottish Poetry Library offers this friendly and encouraging ‘absolute beginners’ course on reading poetry for pleasure. Explore rhyme and form. Go beyond the printed page. Discover new poetry with expert advice. Develop your reading strengths. Pick up a ‘toolkit’ of technical terms. Get a personal plan of what to read next.

Learn more here.

Date: October 23, 2012

Title: Getting Into Poetry I

Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
Description: The Scottish Poetry Library offers this friendly and encouraging ‘absolute beginners’ course on reading poetry for pleasure. Explore rhyme and form. Go beyond the printed page. Discover new poetry with expert advice. Develop your reading strengths. Pick up a ‘toolkit’ of technical terms. Get a personal plan of what to read next.

Learn more here.

Date: October 16, 2012

Title: Troubadour International Poetry Prize submission deadline

Description: Judged this year by Jane Draycott and Bernard O’Donoghue, the Troubadour International Poetry Prize offers prizes of 1st £2,500, 2nd £500, 3rd £250 and 20 prizes of £20 each, a spring 2013 coffee-house-poetry season-ticket and a prizewinners’ coffee-house poetry reading with the judges.

Poems must be submitted by Monday, October 15, 2012.

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Date: October 15, 2012

Title: George Bowering and David McFadden: Performing the Spoken Word Archive

Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Description: In this first event of SpokenWeb’s “Performing the Spoken Word Archive” series, poets David McFadden and George Bowering will “read alongside their past selves” using archival audio from the Sir George Williams University Poetry Reading Series, (link below) recorded between 1967 and 1974. Panel discussion to follow with Stuart Ross, Jason Camlot and Darren Wershler.

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Date: October 12, 2012

Title: Carl Phillips reads as part of Denison University’s Beck Lecture Series

Location: Granville, Ohio, US
Description: Denison University’s Beck Lecture Series presents a reading by poet Carl Phillips in the boardroom of Denison University’s Barney-Davis building (200 West Loop). This event is free and open to the public.

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Date: October 8, 2012

Title: All-Ireland Poetry Day

Location: Ireland
Description: All Ireland Poetry Day is now in its 5th year and we hope this year will be the strongest and most comprehensive celebration of poetry and poets alike. The object of the day is to celebrate poetry in every county in Ireland and in a variety of ways via imaginative programming, scheduling, venues and locations.

Once again this year poetry will happen in diverse and unusual locations throughout the whole island of Ireland such as a reading in Terminal 2, Dublin Airport with poet Michael O’Loughlin. Leading poets such as Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin and Rita Ann Higgins will give a joint reading in the RASI, Merrion Square Dublin.

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Date: October 4, 2012