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Don't miss The Fire People and More Fiya - two incredible new collections of Black British Poetry out this month.
INSTA LIVE BOOK CLUB
Every month our Book Selector Anthony Anaxagorou hosts a live book club live on Instagram @poetrybooksociety. Catch up on all the latest conversations here.
PBS Events
15TH- 17TH JULY | SKYLINES FESTIVAL
Friday 15th - 17th July, Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
We're delighted to be the official bookshop at Skylines Festival in Coventry this Summer, devised by Nine Arches Press and Writing West Midlands, with support from Arts Council England and the Belgrade Theatre. Highlights include a PBS Showcase with Hannah Lowe and Raymond Antrobus, plus performances from Moniza Alvi, Casey Bailey, Natalie Linh Bolderston, Alison Brackenbury, Rishi Dastidar, Rosie Garland, Roz Goddard, Hannah Lowe and John McCullough.
26TH MAY | JANE BURN & JAKE MORRIS CAMPBELL
Join us to launch two local poets' new collections in our pop-up bookshop in the Bottleworks Byker, Newcastle. Jake Morris-Campbell is from South Shields. Corrigenda for Costafine Townis his debut collection. He was selected as a BBC New Generation Thinker and regularly features on Radio 3. Jane Burn is a poet and illustrator based in the North East of England. Her poems have been published in numerous anthologies including Writing Motherhood (Seren) and #MeToo (Fairacre Press) and nominated for the Forward and Pushcart Prizes.
BOTTLEWORKS BOOKSHOP
18th- 31st May
Join our sister company Inpress in the Ouseburn area of Newcastle for a pop-up bookshop at the Bottleworks and a host of exciting poetry events.
NEWCASTLE POETRY FESTIVAL
5-7th May 2022 | 10-5pm | Northern Stage | £15
Don't miss our Newcastle Poetry Festival book tent and the PBS Emergency Poetry Summit on the 5th May at Northern Stage, Newcastle.