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POETRY WEEKEND 5-6 SEPT 2026

SAVE THE DATE !

FANTASTIC POETS READING AND GLORIOUS WORKSHOPS FOR ALL POETRY LOVERS

POETRY READINGS and WORKSHOPS with award winning ISABELLE BAAFI, JEN FEROZE, STEPHEN BOYCE, and more

with funding from the T S ELIOT FOUNDATION 

 

AWARD WINNING POET ISABELLE BAAFI! Isabelle Baafi (main pic) is the author of Chaotic Good (Faber & Faber / Wesleyan University Press, 2025), which won the Jerwood Prize for Best First Collection, was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize and is longlisted for the Swansea University International Dylan Thomas Prize. Her pamphlet Ripe (ignitionpress, 2020) won a Somerset Maugham Award and was a Poetry Book Society Pamphlet Choice. She won the Winchester Poetry Prize 2023 and has been published in Granta, the TLSThe Poetry ReviewCallalooThe London Magazine and elsewhere. She edits at Poetry London and Magma. (Pic: Jolade Olusanya)

ISABELLE BAAFI will be running a workshop £15 (ticket info coming soon, and limited places!) and giving a reading (FREE to public, with thanks to our funders The T S ELIOT FOUNDATION)

AND, BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND the award winning and brilliant JEN FEROZE.

Jen Feroze lives by the sea in Essex. Her work has appeared in publications including Magma, Poetry Wales, Under the Radar, Acumen and Butcher’s Dog. She won the 2024 Poetry Business International Book & Pamphlet Competition with her book ‘A Dress With Deep Pockets’.
Jen writes bespoke poems on the spot on her vintage typewriter. She has written at festivals, weddings and events, and is the resident poet at London’s Poetry Pharmacy on Oxford Street. She loves cold water swimming, chunky knitwear and cheese you can eat with a spoon.

Jen Feroze will give a workshop (£15) and reading (FREE), AND SHE WILL BE WRITING POEMS ON THE SPOT (last year this was a hit, don’t miss a chance to have a piece of bespoke poetry wisdom written for you, or someone of your choosing, by Jen)

Jen Feroze, pictured above

More to be announced 

 

 

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Date

5th - 6th September 2026

Time

10:00 am - 6:00 pm