Unfortunately the Easton Arts Trail poetry event on 16th June listed in the June Poetry Can Newsletter has been CANCELLED. Please do not attend the event.

This site is a portal to the world of poetry in the South West of England. 

Poetry Can organises both Bristol Spring Poetry Festival and Bristol Poetry Festival every year. These festivals feature local national and international poets, to see some of the poets who have appeared at the festival over the past years click the image below. 

Feedback! Win £25 of book tokens.

If you have been to one of the Bristol Spring Poetry Festival events you could win £25 in book tokens

by filling in our feedback form, which automatically enters you into a draw for the tokens.

Click this link: BSPF2013 Feedback and you will be taken to a simple form to fill in.

It will only take a couple of minutes.

Remember, there are still a few events left in the festival, so wait until you have seen them before you feedback.

We've put together a page featuring all of the poets who have appeared at Bristol Poetry Festival and Bristol Spring Poetry festival over the past few years. We call it The Wall of Poetry Fame. Take a look: www.poetrycan.co.uk

Poetry Can presents the South West Poetry Awards 2012-13 celebrating the most significant

contributions to poetry and poetry development in the South West.

• The Poetry Publication Award;
• The Poetry Work With Children and Young People Award;
• The Contribution to Poetry Development Award;
• The Individual Poet Award;
• The Individual Performance Poet Award;
• The Special Recognition Award.

Nominations can be made by anyone who is resident or working in the South West of England,

the winner will be decided by three judges appointed by Poetry Can.

The Awards, hand crafted in beautiful Bristol Blue Glass, will be awarded annualy and will take account

of the many ways poetry is practiced and enjoyed: on the page, on the stage and in the community. 

The deadline for nominations is 28th April 2013

Full details, rules and conditions, how to nominate and nomination forms can be found here: 

South West Poetry Awards

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      The South West Literature Portal