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Forward Prize winning poet
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PBS Events
Online Summer Showcase
Wednesday 15 July | 7-8pm | Youtube | Free for Members & £5 for Non Members
Book now for our online Summer Showcase on 15th July to celebrate the launch of the Summer Bulletin.
We're so excited to share readings from our brilliant PBS Summer Choice Martina Evans, Recommendations Linda Anderson and Kym Deyn, hosted by our wonderful PBS Selector Victoria Kennefick.
The event will be live streamed from 7-8pm GMT on Youtube via private link. Tickets cost £5 for non-members.
Denise Riley & Deryn Rees-Jones at Newcastle Poetry Festival
Saturday 27th June | 2pm - 3.30pm | The Common Room, Neville Hall, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 1SE | Tickets £6/£3 (students)
We're delighted to be providing the bookstall for Newcastle Poetry Festival's upcoming event, with readings and conversation from Deryn Rees-Jones and Denise Riley.
Deryn Rees-Jones is Professor of English at Liverpool University and the editor of Pavilion Poetry, Liverpool University Press. Her poetry collections Burying the Wren and Erato were shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize. Her remarkable latest collection Hôtel Amour, shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2026, sees Rees-Jones returning to ongoing preoccupations: the complexities of memory and memorialisation, desire and the body, and poetry’s place in a hostile world.
Denise Riley is a critically acclaimed writer of both philosophy and poetry. She is currently Professor of the History of Ideas and of Poetry at UEA. She is the author of the award-winning poetry collections, Say Something Back and Lurex. Her latest book, A Chorus of Ears, is a series of essays on voice, lyric and the persona of the poet.
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