Shoreham Wordfest (25th August 2020) Wordfest August Newsletter Poems for Our Time Shoreham Wordfest will launch Lines from the Lockdown in September, a book of children’s poetry inspired by their hopes, fears, observations and feelings during school closures this year. We are thrilled with the response to the home-schooling materials developed by Kay Walton of Rap’n’Rhyme which are […]
Brighton & Hove Quill Poetry (23 Feb 2020) Due to the current Coronavirus/Covid-19 pandemic, the Brighton & Hove Quill Poetry group have had to close for the foreseeable future and are therefore no longer meeting each week at the Brighthelm Centre, North Street, Brighton. However, we are able to share many of our […]
Brighton & Hove Quill of Poetry (1st July 2018) The National Health Service is 70 years old on 5 July 2018. Terry Godwin of Brighton & Hove Quill of Poetry has written two poems to celebrate this event and will be giving public readings of them both within the NHS (at the Royal Sussex […]
Brighton & Hove Arts Council (24th October 2017) Now that the BHAC Poetry Competition has closed with a record six hundred entries all eyes and efforts turn to the Poetry Festival itself which takes place at The Old Market, Upper Market Street, Hove on Saturday November 18th. We have been extraordinarily lucky and honoured to […]
(4th April 2017) We are delighted to announce that the Brighton and Hove Arts Council will be organising a poetry competition and festival for the summer and autumn of 2017. The festival will take place at the Old Market in Hove on Saturday November 18th. We are also delighted to announce that the poet laureate, […]