Friday 4pm Start

Bloodaxe Editor Neil Astley presents a reading from Staying Human, the latest addition to his hugely popular Staying Alive series of world poetry anthologies. For this very special reading Neil will be joined by superb poets David Constantine and Imtiaz Dharker This event is sponsored by Longridge Towers School Click for more information    …

Iraq, the banking crash, phone hacking, the expenses scandal, historic child abuse... Even before Brexit, it seemed that the country had fallen out of love with the establishment. And maybe all of those crises were just symptoms of something really profound happening: the advent of a new version of democracy. In a world of 24-hour…

Jane Burn is a poet and illustrator based in the North East of England. She has won many awards, including the Silver Wyvern at the Poetry on the Lake Festival. Poetry is her true love and the only place where she feels confident, fluent and able to express the unique way she sees the world.…