At A Glance

- all of the Sheffield Poetry Festival events

Date Event/Writers Venue Time
26March Monster Poem Fun
David Harmer & Matt Black
Sheffield Central
Children's Library
2.15pm
27March Broomhall Arts Walk
Lynwood Garden Party - The Celebration
Clarkhouse Road
Lynwood Garden
12.30pm
2.00pm
29March Out of Place
Sheffield's Tuesday Poets
Showroom 5 (venue change) 7.30pm
30March The Shoebox Experiment
Joe Kriss, Kayo Chingonyi, Kevin Fegan>
The Riverside 7.30pm
31March Poetry in Motion: The Word Train
Ian Payne, John Gosnell, Lorraine O'Reilly,
Jan Caborn, Nick Rogers and Carolyn Waudby
Caffeteria 7.45pm
1April Festival Launch
Opening Reading
Simon Armitage, Neil Farrel, Ed Reiss
The Workstation
The Workstation
6.30pm
8.00pm
2April Young Writer's Workshop
David Harmer
Bank Street Arts
Education Room
10.00am
The Road Not Taken
Matthew Hollis
SIA Gallery
(Sheffield Institute of Arts)
11.00am
Festival Café Lunch
 
Bank Street Arts 12.00noon
Death and the Gallant
Chris Jones, Paul Evans
Bank Street Arts 1.30pm
Lagen Press Showcase
Moyra Donaldson, Martin Mooney
SIA Gallery
(Sheffield Institute of Arts)
2.30pm
Goat Boy and other Journeys
Susannah Gent, Fay Musselwhite
Bank Street Arts 3.00pm
Water, Earth and Sky: Three Poets
Elizabeth Barrett, Matthew Hollis and Maurice O'Riordan
SIA Gallery
(Sheffield Institute of Arts)
3.30pm
Geraldine Monk, Helen Mort, Ben Wilkinson
 
Bank Street Arts 5.00pm
Yannis Told Us
Kevin Corcoran, Tria Kalistos, Maria Pavlidou, Howard Wright
Bank Street Arts 7.00pm
25 Years in the North: The Party!
 
Bank Street Arts 8.30pm
3April Poetry and Translation
George Szirtes, Simon Armitage
Humanities Research Institute 11.00am
Geoff Hattersley
 
The Workstation 12.00noon
Festival Café Lunch
 
The Showroom 1.00pm
Making it up: The origins and Accidents of Poetry
Kevin Corcoran joined by Peter Riley
Bank Street Arts 1.0pm
Laureates On Your Doorstep
Ann Atkinson, River Wolton
The Workstation 1.00pm
Templar Poetry Showcase
Rob Hindle, Jane Weir
The Showroom 2.15pm
A Poetry Reading
George Szirtes, Agnes Lehoczky
The Workstation 3.30pm
The Ground Aslant
Peter Riley, Mark Goodwin, Harriet Tarlo
The Showroom 4.00pm
University Poetry Challenge
Sheffield Hallam University v The University of Sheffield
The Workstation 5.00pm
Flossie Paper Doll
Linda Lee Welch and The Only Michael
The Showroom 6.00pm
Matter Poets - Past and Present
Various readers from Sheffield Hallam University's MA
Bank Street Arts 6.30pm
The Best of Sheff Poetry Slam
Tony Walsh, Stan Skinny, Joe Kriss, Sarah Tomasin
The Lescar 7.00pm
The Pathway Poets
Writers on the creative writing MA at the University of Sheffield
The Red Deer 8.00pm
POST HOC Installation
Private View: free entry, no need to book in advance
Bank Street Arts 5.30pm
6April MA Writers
Student writers from Sheffield Hallam University
Bank Street Arts 6.15pm
1-9April POST HOC Installation Bank Street Arts 10.00am
to
5.00pm
daily
30March  - 8April Death and the Gallant
An exhibition
Bank Street Arts 10.00am
to
5.00pm
daily