The 2016 Kendal Poetry Festival seems a long way away now. Pauline Yarwood and I had a fabulous and busy time putting the festival together. In fact we had such a good time, we only gave ourselves a month off…
Andrew Forster at Kendal Poetry Festival
Ticket sales are going very well, and very fast! Quite a few events have sold out – the Friday night Main Reading with Helen Mort and Mir Mahfuz Ali, the Saturday Afternoon Main Reading with Clare Shaw and Hilda Sheehan…
Fiona Sampson at Kendal Poetry Festival
We’re very happy to be sharing a poem from Fiona Sampson’s latest collection Coleshill, published by Chatto & Windus. We also took the opportunity to catch up with Fiona and ask her some questions about her poem, her latest book…
Even it up Poetry Challenge: The Winners!
We were really excited today to learn that our Young Poet in Residence, Hannah Hodgson was a winner in the 15-18 category of the ‘Even it Up Poetry Challenge’, run by The Poetry Society. The theme of the competition was…
Introducing Hannah Hodgson, our Young Poet in Residence
Our programme went live just over a week ago, and we’ve been really pleased by the reaction and messages of support that we’ve received over the last week. Sales are going really well. The Poetry Business Workshop on Saturday morning has…
Welcome to the website of Kendal Poetry Festival
For the past year, Pauline Yarwood and I have been plotting to put together Kendal’s first poetry festival. We’ve spent the year meeting at each other’s houses, making soup and cups of tea to keep ourselves going as we started…