Newcastle Poetry Festival

This is the eleventh Newcastle Poetry Festival and our first as an independent charity. Our aim is to promote poetry in the North East. Our Festival brings new and established local, national and international poets together for one of the highlights of the poetry calendar. This year's theme is 'Re-inventing North'. You can buy a festival pass, a one-day pass, or choose from our many individual readings and free events. Join us for a superb weekend of wonderful contemporary poetry.

We are generously supported by The Griffin Prize.  Bloodaxe Books, the Poetry Book Society, the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Institute of English Studies (University of London) have been friends of the festival from the very beginning. We are grateful also for the kind support of the Hilton Hotel, Gateshead.