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Poeticon – The South-East’s biggest literary convention

Name: Poeticon – The South-East’s biggest literary convention
Start: 2024-11-15T11:00:00+00:00
End: 2024-11-16T18:00:00+00:00
Location: The Clagett Auditorium

15th November @ 11:00 am - 16th November @ 6:00 pm

£5

Poeticon is a two-day literary convention, aiming to inspire and inform the next generation of grassroots writing talent.

Curated by co-directors and poets Connor Sansby and Nina Telegina, Poeticon will bring together national and local poets for a series of talks, workshops and performances, with the overarching focus on how our community can make poetry ‘better’.

Leading industry speakers and locally-based writers will address the professional and creative possibilities of poetry, illuminating radical, new approaches to sustaining a career. Touching on topics from community-building to measuring success to ways of collaborating. Confirmed speakers include Lisa Mead, Artistic Director and CEO of one of England’s leading spoken word organisations Apples and Snakes, Steve Larkin, Founder of Hammer & Tongue, producers of the largest slam competitions in the UK and Stuart Bartholemew, Director of Verve Poetry Press and Festival.

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