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NCLA | PBS Showcase with Grace Nichols, Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe and Don Mee Choi
11th November | 6.30 - 7.30pm | Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University, NE1 7RY | Free, booking required
NCLA and the Poetry Book Society are delighted to present this unique chance to hear new work from three radical, internationally celebrated poets: Don Mee Choi, Grace Nichols and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe.
Grace Nichols will read from The Tracks of My Name, and Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe will read from Stay Winter – both PBS Autumn selections. Don Mee Choi will read from Freely Frayed, her new collection forthcoming from And Other Stories in what promises to be an electric evening of the best in world poetry.
Grace Nichols was awarded The Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry for 2021. Her poetry is studied in UK schools as part of the GCSE National Curriculum. Grace will be reading from The Tracks of My Name
Don Mee Choi is a highly innovative poet and a translator. Her work slips between forms, mixing poetry, lyric essay, memoir, and visual image. Incorporating archives, photographs and fragments of memory, Choi’s poetry explores historical events and the human impact of war. She was born in Seoul, South Korea, into a family forced to leave Korea in 1972 when she was a child, during the Park Chung Hee dictatorship. Her books include the highly acclaimed KOR-US trilogy (Hardly War DMZ Colony and Mirror Nation, the three titles originally published in the USA by Wave Books between 2016 and 2024). DMZ Colony won the 2020 National Book Award for Poetry. Her translations of Kim Hyesoon’s poetry won the 2019 International Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2024 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry.
Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe is poet, pacifist and fabulist. Her debut, Auguries of a Minor God (2021), was shortlisted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the John Pollard Foundation International Poetry Prize, among others. Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe will be reading from Stay Winter.
The poets will read and be in conversation with Dr Tara Bergin, Senior Lecturer in Writing Poetry (Creative Writing) at Newcastle University.
Durham Book Festival | PBS Showcase with Clementine Ewokolo Burnley, Helen Mort and Padraig Regan
11th October | 10:30-11:30am | Gala Theatre, Durham, DH1 1WA | Tickets £10/£9 (Live-stream £5)
The Poetry Book Society presents three award-winning poets featured our Autumn 2026 recommendations list.
In her debut collection, Belling the Leopard, Clementine Ewokolo Burnley’s poetry asks what remains after once-familiar places and people are gone, looking at migration and community from Africa to Europe. Now based in Edinburgh, Clementine Ewokolo Burnley grew up in Victoria, Cameroon, and has lived between Scotland, Italy and Germany for many years. She was joint winner of the James Berry Poetry Prize in 2024.
Sheffield-based writer Helen Mort explores fairytales and modern blended families in her latest poetry collection, STEPMOTHER. Helen has published three previous poetry collections, including Division Street, which won the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Her work has previously been shortlisted for the Forward Prize and T.S. Eliot Prize.
Padraig Regan’s latest collection, The Matter, reflects on mortality and desire. Padraig received the Clarissa Luard Award for their debut collection, Some Integrity, in 2022, and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. They were a Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College Cambridge from 2022 to 2024.
Newcastle Poetry Festival | PBS Showcase: Martina Evans and Jackie Kay
2nd October | 7.15 - 8.15pm | St Mary's by the Tyne, Gateshead, NE8 2AU | Tickets £7/£3
Join us for readings from Martina Evans and Jackie Kay at this special PBS Showcase as part of Newcastle Poetry Festival.
Martina Evans was born in Cork and lives in London. She is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose. American Mules (2021) won the Pigott Poetry Prize. She is poetry critic for the Irish Times and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Her latest collection, Drunken Driving was our PBS Choice for Summer 2026.
Jackie Kay was born in Edinburgh. Between 2016 and 2021 she was the third modern Makar, National Poet of Scotland. She lives in Manchester and is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Salford. Her latest collection, May Day was a PBS Recommendation for Summer 2024. Her Selected Poems is published by Picador this October and is a PBS Special Commendation for Winter 2026.
We're delighted to be providing the book stall for this year's Newcastle Poetry Festival, which will take place 2nd - 3rd October. Follow the link below for the full programme and tickets.
Contains Strong Language 2026
24th - 27th September | Salford (various venues)
We're delighted to be the official booksellers for BBC Contains Strong Language once again this year.
The 10th anniversary of the UK’s biggest poetry and performance festival is coming to Salford! This year's programme is jam-packed with stellar performers, panels and workshops, as well as a special event where the winner of The Laurel Prize will be announced.
This year's line up includes John Cooper Clarke, Simon Armitage, Jackie Kay, and many more.
Visit our book stall where you can purchase books by this year's featured poets.
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