Category: International Events

Title: Special VerseFest Event with bill bissett, Christian Milat and Madhur Anand at Tree Reading Series

Date: March 22, 2017

Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Description: Running since May 9, 1980, the Tree Reading Series (Tree) is one of Canada’s longest-running literary events and an essential part of Ottawa’s vibrant literary community. Tree is a non-profit organization that supports established and emerging writers from Ottawa and across Canada by offering a supportive public venue for writers to present their own work and to benefit from exposure to the work of other writers. In providing this service, Tree hopes to inspire and sustain the development of the literary community in Ottawa and to promote Ottawa as an important community for Canadian literary arts.

The evening features readings by bill bissett, Christian Milat and Madhur Anand, and also includes an open mic.

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Title: Sage Hill Writing Experience – Spring Poetry Colloquium with Tim Lilburn

Start Date: May 15, 2017
End Date: May 28, 2017

Location: Lumsden, Saskatchewan, Canada
Description: This is a facilitated retreat for eight poets who have a publication record of at least one book of poetry or the equivalent in periodicals and are working towards manuscript completion. The colloquium offers a small group context. Focus will be on individual manuscript consultations and on seminar discussions dealing with technical, philosophical, or conceptual issues in contemporary poetry. There will be writing time, but please note that group participation is required. Instruction occurs within a deep-immersion over a relaxed 14 days with an emphasis on individual writing and manuscript revision. Application is open to writers 19 years of age and older from Canada and abroad. This year’s instructor is award-winning poet Tim Lilburn.

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Title: Sage Hill Writing Experience – Spring Poetry Colloquium with Tim Lilburn – application deadline

Date: March 17, 2017

Location: Canada
Description: This is a facilitated retreat for eight poets who have a publication record of at least one book of poetry or the equivalent in periodicals and are working towards manuscript completion. The colloquium offers a small group context. Focus will be on individual manuscript consultations and on seminar discussions dealing with technical, philosophical, or conceptual issues in contemporary poetry. There will be writing time, but please note that group participation is required. Instruction occurs within a deep-immersion over a relaxed 14 days with an emphasis on individual writing and manuscript revision. Application is open to writers 19 years of age and older from Canada and abroad. This year’s instructor is award-winning poet Tim Lilburn.

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Title: Teignmouth Poetry Festival 2017

Start Date: March 16, 2017
End Date: March 19, 2017

Location: Teignmouth, Devon, England
Description: The Teignmouth Poetry Festival 2017 enters its fourth year with a reputation for warm informality already well-established. The programme includes favourites like ‘Poetry in Other Languages’ and a lively opener where folk music shares the stage with new poetry on historical themes. Four workshops will be led by leading poetry names. New this year are ‘The Festival Debate’ (motion: there is no point in writing poetry which people don’t understand), and ‘Desert Island Poems’. Festival headliners are Jo Shapcott, Mario Petrucci, Katrina Naomi and Alasdair Paterson.

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Title: Forward Prizes 2017 winners announced

Date: September 21, 2017

Location: London, England
Description: The Forward Prizes for Poetry are the most coveted awards for poetry published in Britain and Ireland: they have played a key role in bringing contemporary poetry to the attention of the wider public for over a quarter of a century. They were set up in 1992 by philanthropist William Sieghart to celebrate excellence in poetry and increase its audience, and are awarded to published poets for work in print in the last year. The three prizes – £10,000 for Best Collection, £5,000 for Best First Collection and £1,000 for Best Single Poem – are unique in honouring both the work of established poets and the debuts of brilliant unknowns. Past Forward Prizes winners include Claudia Rankine, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Alice Oswald, Ted Hughes, Carol Ann Duffy and Kathleen Jamie.

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Title: Forward Prizes 2017 submission deadlines

Date: March 24, 2017

Location: United Kingdom and Ireland
Description: The Forward Prizes for Poetry are the most coveted awards for poetry published in Britain and Ireland: they have played a key role in bringing contemporary poetry to the attention of the wider public for over a quarter of a century. March 10th is the deadline by which entries for the different prize categories can be registered online via Submittable. March 24th is the deadline by which physical copies of books must be submitted.

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Title: Forward Prizes 2017 submission deadlines

Date: March 10, 2017

Location: United Kingdom and Ireland
Description: The Forward Prizes for Poetry are the most coveted awards for poetry published in Britain and Ireland: they have played a key role in bringing contemporary poetry to the attention of the wider public for over a quarter of a century. March 10th is the deadline by which entries for the different prize categories can be registered online via Submittable. March 24th is the deadline by which physical copies of books must be submitted.

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Title: SouthDowns Poetry Residential

Start Date: April 28, 2017
End Date: May 1, 2017

Location: Petersfield, East Hampshire, England
Description: The South Downs Poetry Festival 2017 is in its second year, offering different events across the inspiring towns and country side of Hampshire and Sussex.

This 3-day poetry writing workshop based residential will be an opportunity to relax and draw inspiration from the lovely surroundings, to enhance and to hone your poetry writing experience with tutors including Kim Moore and Hugh Dunkerley. Set in the heart of the down lands, in the heart of spring – don’t miss the opportunity.

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Title: Women and Words

Date: March 15, 2017

Location: Ashford, Kent, England
Description: The Bauhaus Cafe in Ashford is marking International Women’s Day with a reading evening, sharing and listening to literature from some of the world’s boldest, talented, most visionary and inspiring female authors and creatives. Connect, learn and enjoy through the wonder of words.

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Title: #todayspoem

Date: April 21, 2017

Description: In fact, every day is #todayspoem day. With the #todayspoem hashtag, you can share an excerpt from any poem that happens to have made your day. Everyone shares their #todayspoem experience a little differently, with an image, a link, an excerpt, whatever fits in a tweet. Each tweet is enough to spur a moment of delight or recognition or, handily favorited in Twitter, is a lovely bookmark for future poetry explorations.

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