Online poetry calendars, local poetry centers & organizations, reading & slam venues in Britain & Europe.
Promising “poetry with bite,” Apples & Snakes are England’s most active promoters of performance poetry events. Their roster of artists includes such new luminaries as Patience Agbabi, Dana Bryant, Billy Childish, Selena “Saliva” Godden & Linton Kwesi Johnson.
The Dublin Writers’ Workshop is Ireland’s oldest community of writers & its first online, with
an events calendar, a Net version of its
Acorn 5 print anthology (take a look at “
Callan” by Eabhan Ní Shuileabháin), a new online literary quarterly,
Electric Acorn, &
Haiku Spirit, an online incarnation of its haiku journal.
The Poetry Can contains a bunch of poetry projects in & around Bristol, Bath & the southwest of England, including the annual Bristol Poetry Festival.
Based in a seafront mansion in the ancient university town of St. Andrews, The Poetry House is “believed to be the largest building in Britain devoted to the reading and writing of poetry” -- but it’s also a virtual reference room, offering introductions & links to worldwide poetry from the University of St. Andrews English Department faculty.
Carried on by Jim Bennett after founder Ted Slade’s death in 2004,
Poetry Kit (Surrey, UK) is packed full of information about readings, workshops & other literary events in
London,
other UK cities,
Ireland,
various American states -- even on radio, tv & the Net. A wide-ranging resource, but especially good if you’re on your way to Britain.
