Strelly Road Library - Strelly Road Library, Strelley Rd, NG8 3BJ

Join Nottingham Libraries at Strelley Road library to celebrate the launch of the POGO content on our screens during the poetry festival, an innovative Augmented Reality project to promote poetry across Europe. This has since been reimagined and brought into libraries via the Connect Culture project, enabling these poems to come to life on our interactive screens in the library space. Nottingham Libraries are hosting an open mic event for all poets to come forward and perform.

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Nottingham Lakeside Arts - Djanogly Theatre, Lakeside Arts, University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD

Join New Perspectives Theatre Company for an exclusive evening of live readings from Where I Belong, an original podcast series supported by the British Council Arts Digital Collaboration Fund. From Top Valley to the Tigris, this collection of short poems and stories brings together 12 writers from two distinctive UNESCO Cities of Literature, Nottingham and Baghdad, offering a unique window into the lives of writers in both cities.

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Nottingham Central Library (outdoors) - Nottingham Central Library, 1 Carrington Street, NG1 7FH

Nottingham Poetry Festival aims to fill the streets with poetry and for once the poets are being literal! Come join us as we attempt to break the record for the longest street poem in the world. WE NEED YOUR HELP. Right outside Nottingham Central Library you can read the words as they are written live and take part in a truly unique poetry festival event. To be a part of this experience, you can submit your own lines of poetry online, no matter your age and be a part of history in the making.

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Antenna Media Centre - 9A Beck St, Nottingham NG1 1EQ

In collaboration with legendary Nottingham event organiser Cultural Vibrations and hosted by Rastarella, we are delighted to present the winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize 2022, Anthony Joseph alongside a dynamic line up of spoken word artists and performers from the Caribbean & West African diaspora.

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The Old Cold Store - Queensbridge Rd, NG2 1NB

The only Nottingham Derby derby that matters! Finish of the festival with the ultimate Slam challenge as the best of Nottingham and Derby go head to head in a battle of words that will leave you speechless. Champions from each city bring their best poems together to compete for honour, glory and a grand prize. There’s gonna be fireworks!

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Rough Trade - Address: 5 Broad St, NG1 3AJ

What is ‘Black poetry’? What place does poetry hold within Black communities? What are the experiences of Black poets of the past and present? How might these evolve in the future? Join the Nottingham Black Creatives Network for Written in Black Ink: A conversation on the past, present, and future of Black voices in poetry. We will be joined on the panel by some of Nottingham’s most electrifying poetry talents: Ioney Smallhorne (Writer, Poet, Educator), Chris Oliver (Man Up Man Down), Hil the Poet (Fluent in Both) and our host Caetano Capurro (Free Minds, Big Nature Collective) as they share their journeys, influences and unique insights into the poetry landscape. Stick around for a mini spoken word showcase too!

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