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Monday – Friday. 10am – 5pm.
Saturday. 10am – 2pm.
National Poetry Day is the annual mass celebration on the first Thursday of October that encourages everyone to make, experience and share poetry with family and friends. Each year we come together because voices, words and stories help to bridge understanding in our community. This year, the theme is Refuge.
About National Poetry Day
National Poetry Day is the annual mass celebration on the first Thursday of October that encourages everyone to make, experience and share poetry with family and friends.
Each year we come together because voices, words and stories help to bridge understanding in our community.
National Poetry Day generates an explosion of activity nationwide, thousands of amazing events across the UK – on doorsteps and at kitchen tables, in gardens and streets, in schools, libraries and public spaces both online and offline – all celebrating poetry’s power to bring people together.
The Day starts conversations, it encourages love of language and, best of all, it’s open to absolutely everyone to join in. Whether quietly or noisily in rewarding and enjoyable ways. As the artform’s most visible moment, it showcases the ways in which poetry adds value to society.
About Gillian Floyd
Gillian writes poetry and has had poems published in various anthologies. She also has a great deal of experience of performing poetry in venues such as the Everyman Bistro (Liverpool), the Bluecoat (Liverpool), the Poetry Café (London) and the Natural History Museum (London). Her subject matter is largely Nature, with trees being a particular specialism.
