Event Type: Festivals
Lakeland Canoe Club present the 2021 World Tour paddling Film Festival
Start 7pm | Tickets £12 | Under 16s £6 | Theatre Lakeland Canoe Club with support from Pyranha Kayaks are pleased to present the 2021...
Kpf21 – Festival Pass Ticket (Feb 19 – Feb 28)
We have a limited number of £60 festival passes, giving access to all events (excluding workshops). This is a huge saving of £40 if you...
Kpf21 – Speaking Out: Evening Reading With Fiona Benson & Jay Bernard
8 - 9pm | £5 Fiona Benson’s latest collection Vertigo and Ghost (Jonathan Cape, 2019) won the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the Roehampton...
Kpf21 – Late Night Open Mic With Ann Grant
9.30 - 11.30pm | £5 Ann Grant returns with the Late Night Open Mic – a festival favourite. Come along to take part or just...
Kpf21 – Writing Hour With Co-director Of Kendal Poetry Festival, Kim Moore
8.30 - 9.30am | Free Join one of the directors of Kendal Poetry Festival every morning for an early morning Writing Hour. You will be...
Kpf21 – Writing Workshop With Acclaimed Canadian Poet Karen Solie
10 am - 12 noon | Max 16 | £16.50 Getting Started: A Writing Workshop ...
Kpf21 – These Are The Hands – Poems From The Heart Of The Nhs
2-3pm | Donations – pay what you feel Join us for a celebration reading from this wonderful anthology. Published by Fair Acre Press, this ground-breaking...
Kpf21 – Afternoon Tea With Brewery Poets
4 - 5pm | £5 Kendal’s Brewery Poets have been meeting for over thirty years and are the driving force behind the Kendal Poetry Festival....
Kpf21 – Breaking Boundaries: Evening Reading With Vahni Capildeo & Mark Waldron
8 - 9pm | £5 Vahni Capildeo’s seven books and five pamphlets extend from prose poetry into immersive theatre. Capildeo’s work is intimate yet full of...
Kpf21 – Writing Workshop With Hafsah Aneela Bashir
10 - 12 noon | Max 16 | £16.50 Manchester-based poet, playwright and performer, Hafsah Aneela Bashir, is the founder of the Poetry Health Service...
Kpf21 – Writing Hour With Co-director Of Kendal Poetry Festival, Kim Moore
8.30 - 9.30am | Free Join one of the directors of Kendal Poetry Festival every morning for an early morning Writing Hour. You will be...
Kpf21 – Sanatorium With Abi Palmer
2 - 3.30pm | £5 Join Abi Palmer for a live performance of Sanatorium, scored with haunting, dreamlike film. A young woman spends a month taking...
Kpf21 Writing Hour With Co-director Of Kendal Poetry Festival, Clare Shaw
8.30am - 9.30am | Free Join one of the directors of Kendal Poetry Festival every morning for an early morning Writing Hour. You will be...
Kpf21 – Writing Workshop With Andrew Mcmillan
10am - 12noon | £16.50 A Dance of Description During this workshop we will look at how we might use ballet and contemporary dance to inspire...
Kpf21 – Writing Workshop With Ann & Peter Sansom From The Poetry Business
10 am - 12 noon | Max 16 Join Ann and Peter - described by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage as 'the most astute and effective...
Kpf21 – Late Night Open Mic With Ann Grant
9.30 - 11pm | £5 Ann Grant returns for a second instalment of the Late Night Open Mic. Come and take part - or just...
Kpf21 – Writing Hour With Co-director Of Kendal Poetry Festival, Clare Shaw
8.30 - 9.30am | Free Join one of the directors of Kendal Poetry Festival every morning for an early morning Writing Hour. You will be...
Kpf21 – Writing Hour With Co-director Of Kendal Poetry Festival, Clare Shaw
8.30 - 9.30am | Free Join one of the directors of Kendal Poetry Festival for an early morning Writing Hour, to run every day the...
Kpf21 – Ludokinetic Poetry With Jon Stone
2 - 3pm | £5 Jon Stone discusses and performs ludokinetic poems - poems that involve the reader through mechanisms of play. This innovative category...
Kpf21 – Staying Human Anthology Event – Neil Astley In Conversation With Clare Shaw
4 - 5 pm | £5 The Staying Alive series of Bloodaxe anthologies - Staying Alive (2002), Being Alive (2004), Being Human (2011) and Staying Human (2020) – have been a huge presence...
Kpf21 – Voice And Song: Evening Reading With Vicki Feaver & David Morley
8 - 9pm | £5 Vicki Feaver will be reading from her much anticipated fourth collection I Want! I Want! (Jonathan Cape, 2020). Her new...
Kpf21 – Writing Workshop With Jen Hadfield – ‘manifesto!’
10am - 2pm | £45 | Max 10 In the past year, it's really been brought home to us how notional our sense of our...
Kpf21 – Poetry Business New Poets Pamphlet Event
2.30 - 3.30pm | £5 The Poetry Business New Poets Pamphlets Competition is one of the most prestigious and exciting competition for young poets. Come...
Kpf21 – Society And The Self: Evening Reading With Mary Jean Chan & Karen Solie
8 - 9pm | £5 Mary Jean Chan’s first full-length collection Flèche (Faber and Faber 2019) was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards for Poetry....
Kpf21 – 100 Poems To Save The Planet
2 - 3 pm | £5 Join editors Zoë Brigley Thompson and Kristian Evans for a celebratory reading from this life-affirming anthology, due to be...
Kpf21 – Healing Words: Evening Reading With Carolyn Forche & Romalyn Ante
8 - 9 pm | £5 Romalyn Ante has blogged about the parallels between the art of writing poetry and being a nurse – how...
Kpf21 – Writing Hour With Co-director Of Kendal Poetry Festival, Kim Moore
8.30 - 9.30am | Free Join one of the directors of Kendal Poetry Festival every morning for an early morning Writing Hour. You will be...
Kpf21 – Body And Soul: Evening Reading With Andrew Mcmillan & Hannah Hodgson
8 - 9pm | £5 Hannah Hodgson is one of Cumbria’s rising stars and our top tip for a poet to keep an eye on! ...
Kpf21 – Rifling Things: A Poetry Workshop With Jon Stone
10 am - 12 noon | 16 places | £16.50 A match. A musty flask. A mosquito. Poetry is an art uniquely suited to honour...
Kpf21 – Writing Workshop With Carolyn Forche
10am - 12 noon | £16.50 Join us for a writing workshop with the wonderful poet Carolyn Forche. Welcome to Kendal Poetry Festival. This...
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