Welcome to the Poetry-next-the-Sea website.
Friday 10th – Sunday 12th May 2013
at
The Maltings
Staithe Street
Wells-next-the-Sea
Norfolk
NR23 1AU
TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE
Featured readers will include:
Wendy Cope
Martyn Crucefix
Sue Hubbard
Lachlan Mackinnon
Heidi Williamson
Clive Wilmer
plus
a centenary tribute to
George Barker
(featuring Elspeth and Raffaella Barker, Grey Gowrie, Oliver Bernard & Anthony Thwaite)
William Sieghart
Founder of the Forward Prizes for Poetry
in conversation with
Mary Ann Seighart*
Andrea Holland
Winner of the Café Writers
Norfolk Commission 2012
* Bryan Appleyard is unable to attend due to ill health.
Click here for the review of our last festival in May 2012
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2012 festival feedback – what the poets said
A wonderful and intimate festival on a beautiful coastline
- what's not to like about it?
Brian Patten
one of the warmest, most receptive audiences I have ever encountered.
Vicki Feaver
It is an absolute jewel
Jean Sprackland
... one of the best and most welcoming festivals I have ever been to... It is small and perfect and fuelled by love, and boy do we need festivals like this.
John Siddique
an appreciative and attentive audience.
Jehane Markham
A warm and responsive audience and stimulating events.
Dame Gillian Beer
The much-loved Poetry-next-the-Sea festival takes place annually over one May weekend in the charming town of Wells-next-the-Sea on the evocative north Norfolk coast. In the arena of literary festivals, we punch above our weight, showcasing poets of national and international repute in an intimate setting.
In addition, we run an Education Programme which places a professional poet in local schools in order to extend and enhance young people’s experience of poetry. Our very successful Poetry Competition offers writers the opportunity to demonstrate their skills.
Poetry-next-the-Sea has made an enduring impact on the cultural life of north Norfolk over the course of the last fifteen years. We are continually striving to develop the festival in order to meet the high expectations of our local community and our dedicated audience.
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