Are you a UK-based #poet with a recent or forthcoming poetry collection or pamphlet? Would you like to be a featured at Reading's longest-running and best-loved poetry reading series? We're currently booking guest readers for 2026 - DM us here or email info@poetscafereading.co.uk with queries!
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WE CAN'T WAIT!
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This March we are being TAKEN OVER!
That's right! Oxford Poetry Library is returning to the @southstreetarts.bsky.social stage on 14 March. Featuring guest poet Phoebe Nicholson and host, Andy H. Melhuish - this is not one to miss!
Tickets & info: whatsonreading.com/venues/south...
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Thanks for sharing - your support means a lot!
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Poets' Café Online 2025
With Guest Poet Yousif M Qasmiyeh For one month only, Reading's longest running poetry night will be taking place on line. But the same familiar format will remain with an open mic section for local w...
#ICYMI this week's Friday evening Poets' Cafe session will be ONLINE!
No need to brave the cold, you can enjoy scintillating stanzas and vibrant verse in the comfort of your own home, via Zoom⚡
Find out more & book at whatsonreading.com/poets-cafe-o...
#rdguk #poetry
12.02.2025 16:51 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2
Join us tomorrow night! I'll be hosting guest poet Yousif M. Qasmiyeh + open mic
YES THAT'S RIGHT VALENTINE'S DAY POETRY OPEN MIC - ONLINE! I'll be reading something angsty to kick things off 💃
#poetryopenmic #poets
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Community-powered poetry in Oxford. Workshops, events, open mics and a lending library of poetry open on Saturdays from 12pm-3pm. Entirely volunteer-run. Currently based at The Community Works, 21 Park End St, OX1 1HU
https://linktr.ee/oxfordpoetrylibrary
Poet 💡 PhDing, Exeter RENEW Biodiversity 🌿 'Mingle' - Nine Arches ☣️ 'The Coin' - Broken Sleep 🪙 Bristol City Poet, '20-22 🦄 Ecopoetry, queer ecologies 🐙 Music, dancing, DJing 🎶 Say hello 👋🏼
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Poet, reader, workshop leader, weather watcher, moon gazer. Pre-Raphaelite Society Poet-in-Residence. Widely published, inc. Something so wild and new... (2021) & (m)othersongs (2023), V. Press.
Web: sarahdoyle.co.uk
https://buymeacoffee.com/poetsarahdoyle
Novelist. Poet. Reader.
🏺OVID’S HEROINES 🍼INCARNATION 🐇FIERCE BAD RABBITS 🔮 DELPHI 🏰THE UNTAMEABLES 🧚🏾THE MODERN FAIRIES, ✍️LIVES OF THE FEMALE POETS, etc. 🌊THE OTHERNAUTS coming 2026
Substack: Clare’s Poetry Circle
Poet etc.
Books - Goodlord & Shine, Darling
Hosts Tears for Frears & Stress Test on Soho Radio
RLF Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art
Poet, Translator | RLF Reading Round Fellow | Tutor, Oxford University | Stephen Spender, UNESCO Bridges of Struga & Northern Writers 🏆 | Opinions own, etc. www.manmadebooks.co.uk || https://linktr.ee/harrymanoninstagram
Homelessness prevention charity in Reading. https://launchpadreading.org.uk/
Reading based award winning arts charity, founded in 1993. Artists studios, exhibitions, events, workshops, talks & collaborative projects. 🔗jelly.org.uk
Reading Central Lib Dem Parliamentary Spokesman. Maker of NHS digital things. Ex supply teach and civil servant. Sometimes funny - always Wright.
Monthly open Mic Poetry competition
19:30 first Sunday of the Month.
at The Rising sun Art Centre RG1 2ST
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Pop culture & Beer. Editor #rdguk Mine’s A Pint magazine - Bronze winner for CAMRA’S Magazine of the Year in 2023. Music, History, Architecture & Transport enthusiast.
Mum, business owner, Whitley Councillor🌹, gardener, sewer, trustee. Sue Ryder ambassador. Love reading 📚 and Reading #RdgUK
Twitter escapee. Like to know what's going on. Green Party member, Make Votes Matter. Gran to 4 - oldest now an M.Eng, youngest embarking on A-Levels. #rdguk #FB99%
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North of the Kennet, south of the Thames. Keeping it local with music, history and architecture. Listening to and looking at all the good stuff.
