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KPF22 Children’s Poetry – Ages 7-8
9.30am - 11.30am (morning session), 12.30pm - 2.30pm (afternoon session) | Tickets £2.50 | Outside-In Play Centre, Join celebrated children's poet and acclaimed performer Matt...
KPF22 Children’s Poetry – Ages 11-14
9.30 am - 11.30am (morning session), 12.30pm - 2.30pm (afternoon session) | Tickets £2.50 | Brewery Arts: Theatre Join celebrated children's poet and acclaimed performer...
KPF22 Portraits In Poetry
6pm - 7pm | Free (Please book in advance) | The Factory: Space2Create In the run-up to the festival, young people from Kendal took part...
KPF22 Opening Doors – Open Mic Night – Online
7.30pm - 9.30pm | Tickets £5 | Online via Zoom Start your festival experience with an open mic event at the Brewery Arts. Hosted by...
KPF22 Opening Doors – Open Mic Night
7.30pm - 9.30pm | Tickets £5 | Brewery Arts: Warehouse Start your festival experience with an open mic event at the Brewery Arts. Hosted by...
KPF22 Friday Morning Writing Hour – Online
9am - 10am | Free (please book in advance) | Online via Zoom Writing Hour with Clare Shaw, Co-Director of Kendal Poetry Festival. Join the...
KPF22 Friday Morning Writing Hour
9am-10am | Free (please book in advance) | Brewery Arts: Warehouse Writing Hour with Clare Shaw, Co-Director of Kendal Poetry Festival. Join the festival directors...
KPF22 – Festival Pass Ticket
Weekend Passes | £45 This price includes all of the Readings, Talks, Discussions and Open Mics taking place on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of the...
KPF22 New Writing North Award Winners Event – Online
11am - 12pm | Free (please book in advance) | Online via Zoom Established in 2000, the Northern Writers’ Awards supports work-in-progress by new, emerging,...
KPF22 New Writing North Award Winners Event
11am - 12pm | Free (please book in advance) | Kendal Library: Pennington Room Established in 2000, the Northern Writers’ Awards supports work-in-progress by new,...
KPF22 Painting The Poets With Clae Eastgate
1pm - 2pm | Tickets £5 | The Factory: Space2Create Join us for 'Painting The Poets', the opening event of this extraordinary exhibition with artist...
KPF22 Painting The Poets With Clae Eastgate – Online
1pm - 2pm | Tickets £5 | Online via Zoom Join us for 'Painting The Poets', the opening event of this extraordinary exhibition with artist...
KPF22 Afternoon Tea With Brewery Poets
4pm - 5pm | Tickets £8 | Brewery Arts: Warehouse Kendal’s Brewery Poets have been meeting for over thirty years and are the driving force...
KPF22 Dove Cottage Young Poets Workshop With Nafeesa Hamid
4pm - 6pm | Free (please book in advance) | The Factory: Space2Create Dove Cottage Young Poets meet fortnightly to read, write and discuss poetry....
KPF22 Dove Cottage Young Poets Workshop With Nafeesa Hamid – Online
4pm-6pm | Free (please book in advance) | The Factory: Space2Create Dove Cottage Young Poets meet fortnightly to read, write and discuss poetry. If you...
KPF22 Festival Launch – Online
6pm - 7pm | Free (please book in advance) | Online via Zoom Everyone is welcome to the Festival Launch. Celebrate our return to Kendal...
KPF22 Festival Launch
6pm - 7pm | Free (please book in advance) | Brewery Arts: Warehouse Everyone is welcome to the Festival Launch. Celebrate our return to Kendal...
KPF22 Main Reading – Joelle Taylor/Imtiaz Dharkar
7.30pm - 9.30pm | Tickets £5 | Brewery Arts: Theatre Join us for the opening of the festival with an electric night of poetry from...
KPF22 Main Reading – Joelle Taylor/Imtiaz Dharkar – Online
7.30pm - 9.30pm | Tickets £5 | Online via Zoom Join us for the opening of the festival with an electric night of poetry from...
KPF22 Saturday Morning Writing Hour
9am-10am | Free (please book in advance) | Brewery Arts: Warehouse Writing Hour with Kim Moore, Co-Director of Kendal Poetry Festival. Join the festival directors...
KPF22 Saturday Morning Writing Hour – Online
9am - 10am | Free (please book in advance) | Online via Zoom Writing Hour with Kim Moore, Co-Director of Kendal Poetry Festival. Join the...
KPF22 Writing Workshop With Carola Luther
10.30am - 12.30pm | Tickets £16.50 | Brewery Arts: Warehouse Join us for a workshop with poet Carola Luther. Please note there are only 12...
KPF22 Main Reading – Paul Batchelor and Rachel Mann – Online
11am - 1pm | Tickets £5 | Online via Zoom Paul Batchelor will join us to read from his long-awaited second collection Acts of Oblivion...
KPF22 Main Reading – Paul Batchelor and Rachel Mann
11am - 1pm | Tickets £5 | Brewery Arts: Theatre Paul Batchelor will join us to read from his long-awaited second collection Acts of Oblivion...
KPF22 Writing Workshop With Nafeesa Hamid
2pm - 4pm | Tickets £16.50 | Brewery Arts: Warehouse Come along and join this insightful writing workshop with Nafeesa Hamid. Nafeesa Hamid’s debut collection...
KPF22 Writing Workshop With Nafeesa Hamid – Online
2pm - 4pm | Tickets £16.50 | Online via Zoom Come along and join this insightful writing workshop with Nafeesa Hamid. Nafeesa Hamid’s debut collection...
KPF22 Main Reading – Jane Burn and Victoria Adukwei Bulley – Online
2.30pm - 4.30pm | Tickets £5 | Online via Zoom Jane Burn is a Pushcart/Forward Prize-nominated, multi-award-winning, widely anthologised poet and author. She will be...
KPF22 Main Reading – Jane Burn and Victoria Adukwei Bulley
2.30pm - 4.30pm | Tickets £5 | Brewery Arts: Theatre Jane Burn is a Pushcart/Forward Prize-nominated, multi-award-winning, widely anthologised poet and author. She will be...
KPF22 Poetry Across Borders – With Kateřina Rudčenková’s and Milan Děžinský
5pm - 6pm | Tickets £5 | Brewery Arts: Theatre Join us for this extraordinary event where we will hear from two Czech poets, Kateřina...
KPF22 Poetry Across Borders With Kateřina Rudčenková’s and Milan Děžinský – Online
5pm - 6pm | Tickets £5 | Online via Zoom Join us for this extraordinary event where we will hear from two Czech poets, Kateřina...
KPF22 Main Reading – Daniel Sluman and John Glenday
7pm - 9pm | Tickets £5 | Brewery Arts: Theatre Daniel Sluman’s third collection single window (Nine Arches Press, 2021) is a hyper-confessional hybrid memoir...
KPF22 Main Reading – Daniel Sluman and John Glenday – Online
7pm - 9pm | Tickets £5 | Online via Zoom Daniel Sluman’s third collection single window (Nine Arches Press, 2021) is a hyper-confessional hybrid memoir...
KPF22 Late Night Open Mic With Ann Grant
9.30pm - 11pm | Tickets £5 | Brewery Arts: Theatre Ann Grant returns with the Late Night Open Mic – a festival favourite. Come along...
KPF22 Late Night Open Mic With Ann Grant – Online
9.30pm - 11pm | Tickets £5 | Online via Zoom Ann Grant returns with the Late Night Open Mic – a festival favourite. Come along...
KPF22 Sunday Morning Writing Hour – Online
9am - 10am | Free (please book in advance) | Online via Zoom Join Clare Shaw for an early morning Writing Hour. You will be...
KPF22 Sunday Morning Writing Hour
9am - 10am | Free (please book in advance) | Brewery Arts: Warehouse Join Clare Shaw for an early morning Writing Hour. You will be...
KPF22 Main Reading – Nafeesa Hamid + Carola Luther
11am - 1pm | Tickets £5 | Brewery Arts: Theatre Carola Luther was a popular Poet-in-Residence at Wordsworth Grasmere, and she makes a welcome return to...
KPF22 Main Reading – Nafeesa Hamid and Carola Luther – Online
11am - 1pm | Tickets £5 | Online via Zoom Carola Luther was a popular Poet-in-Residence at Wordsworth Grasmere, and she makes a welcome return to...
KPF22 Why I Write Poetry talk/discussion
2.30pm - 3.30pm | Tickets £5 | Brewery Arts: Theatre What motivates poets in the 21st century? How do they find their voice? What themes...
KPF22 Why I Write Poetry talk/discussion – Online
2.30pm - 3.30pm | Tickets £5 | Online via Zoom What motivates poets in the 21st century? How do they find their voice? What themes...
KPF22 Poetry Birmingham: The Editor’s Perspective talk/discussion
4pm-5pm | Tickets £5 | Brewery Arts: Warehouse Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal was first published in 2019 and has already been heralded for its ‘intellectually...
KPF22 Poetry Birmingham: The Editor’s Perspective talk/discussion – Online
4pm-5pm | Tickets £5 | Online via Zoom Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal was first published in 2019 and has already been heralded for its ‘intellectually...
KPF22 Main Reading – Don Paterson and Naush Sabah
5.30-7.30pm | Tickets £5 | Brewery Arts: Theatre Don Paterson’s latest collection Zonal (Faber, 2020) takes as its starting point the classic television series The Twilight Zone to create a...
KPF22 Main Reading – Don Paterson and Naush Sabah – Online
5.30pm - 7.30pm | Tickets £5 | Online via Zoom Don Paterson’s latest collection Zonal (Faber, 2020) takes as its starting point the classic television series The Twilight Zone to...
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KPF22 Rucksack Of Rhymes – Summer Garden With Wordsworth Grasmere
10am - 11am | Free | Kendal Library For children, aged 0-5 yrs. Explore themes in the poetry of William Wordsworth through songs, crafts and...
KPF22 Writing Workshop With Carola Luther – Online
10.30am - 12.30pm | Tickets £16.50 | Online via Zoom Join us for a workshop with poet Carola Luther. Please note there are only four...
KPF22 Meet The Artist with Clae Eastgate
1.15pm - 2.15pm | Free | The Factory: Space2Create Meet the extraordinary artist Clae Eastgate, for a tour of the 'Painting the Poets' exhibition and...
KPF22 Workshop With Don Paterson
10.30am - 12.30pm | Tickets £16.50 | Brewery Arts: Warehouse Join us for a chance to read, write, and talk about poetry with Don Paterson....
KPF22 Workshop With Don Paterson – Online
10.30am - 12.30pm | Tickets £16.50 | Online via Zoom Join us for a chance to read, write, and talk about poetry with Don Paterson....
KPF22 Meet The Artist With Clae Eastgate
1.15pm - 2.15pm | Free | The Factory: Space2Create Meet the extraordinary artist Clae Eastgate, for a tour of the 'Painting the Poets' exhibition and...