Welcome to the Poetry Can website
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.
- Poetry Workshop with Jo Bell, Canal Laureate.
- Forward Prize for Poetry Awards 2013
- Poetry School Autumn 2013 Programme
- Write Space Workshops - Bristol
- The Poetry Society launches the 2013 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry.
- Alice Oswald to host creative writing residentials at Sharpham
- Artswork working with Young People courses Oct/Nov 2013
- FUEL Youth Performance Company membership auditions 21st September
| Sun Oct 13 @19:00 - Lyrical Minded - Online |
| Sun Oct 13 @19:00 - Ten Thousand Things - the book launch - Bristol |
| Mon Oct 14 @19:45 - Wells Poetry Fountain |
| Mon Oct 14 @20:00 - Poetry and a Pint - Bath |
| Wed Oct 16 @20:00 - Cafe Frug - Penzance |
| Thu Oct 17 @19:30 - 08:30PM ASP Poetry Circle - Keynsham |
| Thu Oct 17 @20:00 - Cafe Frug - St Ives |
| Thu Oct 17 @20:30 - Arts House Open Mic - Bristol |
- Cinnamon Single Poem Prize - (deadline 30th Sept)
- Geoff Stevens memorial Poetry Prize 2013 (deadline 31 October)
- Fire River Poets Open Poetry Competition 2013 (deadline 8th Nov)
- The Plough Prize 2013 (deadline November 30th)
- Newfound Poetry Competition (deadline 15th October)
- Magma Poetry Competition 2013 (deadline Dec 12th)
- Myslexia Women's writing competitions 2013 (deadline 17th June)
- Troubadoour International Poetry Prize 2013 - deadline Monday 21st October
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#BPF2013 Park Street Poetry Fri 11 Oct FREE Boston Tea Party, Park St, Bristol. Ahren Warner John Stone Edward Mackay ow.ly/oWUzu
Thursday, 10 October 2013
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#BPF2013 We want your feedback from Bristol Poetry Festival. £25 book token prize draw for all who feedback. tinyurl.com/pwfs4lr
Tuesday, 08 October 2013
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#BPF2013 Acoustic Night £2 Mon 7 Oct 7.45pm Halo Cafe Bar BS7 8BA Instant Anthology + guest. Bring copies of poems ow.ly/oWFXy
Sunday, 06 October 2013
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Incredible performance tonight poet Martin Figura's Whistle @ArnolfiniArts for @Poetry_Can #BPF2013 Powerful, moving, funny. Wow! thank you
Retweeted Sunday, 06 October 2013
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