What we’re about
For people who enjoy performing and/listening to poetry.
Regular Poetry Events in Reading:
Dreading Slam at The Rising Sun Arts Centre, Silver Street RG1 2ST on the first Sunday of the Month at 19:30
Poets Café -Open Mic and Guest Poet Readings Second Friday of Each Month 20:00 in South Street Art Centre Reading RG1 4QU.
Friendly atmosphere. New poets and audience welcome.
Upcoming events (4+)
See all- POETS' CAFE AT SOUTH STREET with guest Susie Campbell + open micSouth Street Arts Centre, Reading
Reading’s longest-running and best-loved poetry platform, Poets’ Café, is organised and hosted by The Poetry Society’s Reading Stanza.
Doors open at 8pm for an 8:30pm start. Tickets are £5 or £4 for concessions (and open mic readers!) Tickets available here or on the door.
Susie Campbell has a PhD in poetic practice. Her poetry publications include I return to you (2019), Tenter (2020), Enclosures (2021) and The Sleeping Place (2023). Her poetry and critical writing have also appeared in poetry journals such as Poetry Review, Long Poem Magazine, Shearsman and Axon, and in anthologies including The Book of Penteract (2022) and Seeing in Tongues (2023). As well as text poetry, she makes visual, sound and textile poetry. Her sound collaboration with poet Chris Kerr was the inaugural publication for Angry Starlings Imprint, 2023. She can be found on https://www.instagram.com/susiecampbellwrites/ https://susiecampbellwrites.wordpress.com
For more information visit www.poetscafereading.co.uk
