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 ONLINE SPECIAL with guest Yousif M Qasmiyeh + 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.
PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT IS ONLINE Tickets are £5 or £4 for concessions (and open mic readers!) and available here.
Born and educated in Baddawi refugee camp in Lebanon, Yousif M. Qasmiyeh is a poet and translator who completed his doctorate in English Literature at the University of Oxford. Time, the body and ruination inform his poetry and prose, which have appeared inModern Poetry in Translation, Critical Quarterly, Cambridge Literary Review, PN Review, Stand, New England Review, Poetry London and Wasafiri. Yousif is the Creative Encounters Editor of the Migration and Society journal and Writer-in-Residence for the Refugee Hosts project. His debut collection, Writing the Camp (Broken Sleep Books, 2021), was a 2021 PBS Recommendation; was selected as one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by the Telegraph and the Irish Times; was highly commended by the 2021 Forward Prizes for Poetry; and was shortlisted for the 2022 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize. Yousif’s latest books are Eating the Archive (2023) and (with E. Fiddian-Qasmiyeh and Saiful Huq Omi) The Southern Eye (2024) (both published by Broken Sleep Books).
Click HERE to book your ticket. A zoom link will be sent to you on the day. For more information visit www.poetscafereading.co.uk
