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 Carl Tomlinson + Vic Pickup + 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.
Carl Tomlinson lives on a smallholding in rural Oxfordshire. His work’s appeared in Orbis, South, The Alchemy Spoon, The Hope Valley Journal, Spelt, and several anthologies. In 2019 his poem Market Forces won the Shout out for the Oxford Covered Market competition, and forms part of the market’s audio guide.
Carl’s debut pamphlet Changing Places was published in 2021 by Fair Acre Press. Helen Mort says of it that it ‘challenge[s] us to move beyond a naïve appreciation of the ‘natural’ and recognise the ways that our landscapes have been profoundly altered by human presence’.For more information visit www.poetscafereading.co.uk
