@cheltpoetfest.bsky.social
The Festival's competition is now closed.
All entries will now be passed over to the judge, Gregory Leadbetter.
We will be announcing the results of the competition in January 2026. They will be published on our website: cheltenhampoetryfestival.co.uk , on this page and on other social media.
All entries will now be passed over to the judge, Gregory Leadbetter.
We will be announcing the results of the competition in January 2026. They will be published on our website: cheltenhampoetryfestival.co.uk , on this page and on other social media.
November 17, 2025 at 9:53 AM
The Festival's competition is now closed.
All entries will now be passed over to the judge, Gregory Leadbetter.
We will be announcing the results of the competition in January 2026. They will be published on our website: cheltenhampoetryfestival.co.uk , on this page and on other social media.
All entries will now be passed over to the judge, Gregory Leadbetter.
We will be announcing the results of the competition in January 2026. They will be published on our website: cheltenhampoetryfestival.co.uk , on this page and on other social media.
Online sales for this evening's event are now closed. There will be 5 tickets available for purchase at St Andrew's from 6.30pm.
The online box office is open for other non-Slam Festival events at www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
Slam tickets from:
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The online box office is open for other non-Slam Festival events at www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
Slam tickets from:
cheltplayhouse.org.uk/CheltPlayhou...
www.ticketsource.co.uk
May 7, 2025 at 8:24 AM
Online sales for this evening's event are now closed. There will be 5 tickets available for purchase at St Andrew's from 6.30pm.
The online box office is open for other non-Slam Festival events at www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
Slam tickets from:
cheltplayhouse.org.uk/CheltPlayhou...
The online box office is open for other non-Slam Festival events at www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
Slam tickets from:
cheltplayhouse.org.uk/CheltPlayhou...
The Festival begins tomorrow with an event in which Ruth Padel, Pat Edwards & Lucy Heuschen share work that explores the representation of women and girls in myth, legend and history.
Just 4 tickets left from www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
Just 4 tickets left from www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
May 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The Festival begins tomorrow with an event in which Ruth Padel, Pat Edwards & Lucy Heuschen share work that explores the representation of women and girls in myth, legend and history.
Just 4 tickets left from www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
Just 4 tickets left from www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
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Getting closer! I’ll be reading at @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social’s emerging showcase in a beautiful @uniofglos.bsky.social chapel on Sat 17th May. If you’re free & haven’t got a ticket yet, come & see Tess Biddington & I and hear some great university voices: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/onl...
May 5, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Getting closer! I’ll be reading at @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social’s emerging showcase in a beautiful @uniofglos.bsky.social chapel on Sat 17th May. If you’re free & haven’t got a ticket yet, come & see Tess Biddington & I and hear some great university voices: www.ticketsource.co.uk/whats-on/onl...
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Join me at @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social
for a workshop that celebrates the beauty of restraint. Learn to craft concise, powerful poems with precise details and effectively use white space. May 27, 7pm online. Read more and book www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
for a workshop that celebrates the beauty of restraint. Learn to craft concise, powerful poems with precise details and effectively use white space. May 27, 7pm online. Read more and book www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
April 27, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Join me at @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social
for a workshop that celebrates the beauty of restraint. Learn to craft concise, powerful poems with precise details and effectively use white space. May 27, 7pm online. Read more and book www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
for a workshop that celebrates the beauty of restraint. Learn to craft concise, powerful poems with precise details and effectively use white space. May 27, 7pm online. Read more and book www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
There's just 1 ticket left for the talk Walking Gloucestershire with Ivor Gurney by Eleanor Rawling
You need to act fast if you want to come: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
You need to act fast if you want to come: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
April 27, 2025 at 6:58 PM
There's just 1 ticket left for the talk Walking Gloucestershire with Ivor Gurney by Eleanor Rawling
You need to act fast if you want to come: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
You need to act fast if you want to come: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
The line-up for this year's Cheltenham Poetry Festival Slam has to be the best yet - with slam champs from across the county (together with some locally sourced talents) going head-to-head in this feast of spoken word!
Get your tickets from Cheltenham Playhouse: cheltplayhouse.org.uk/CheltPlayhou...
Get your tickets from Cheltenham Playhouse: cheltplayhouse.org.uk/CheltPlayhou...
Slaminal Farm! - Cheltenham Playhouse
Sat 17 May
cheltplayhouse.org.uk
April 26, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The line-up for this year's Cheltenham Poetry Festival Slam has to be the best yet - with slam champs from across the county (together with some locally sourced talents) going head-to-head in this feast of spoken word!
Get your tickets from Cheltenham Playhouse: cheltplayhouse.org.uk/CheltPlayhou...
Get your tickets from Cheltenham Playhouse: cheltplayhouse.org.uk/CheltPlayhou...
We are so excited about our next online lounge! It has long been a dream of ours to host Fran Lock and she reads for us next Tuesday -29th April 7pm with Tom Branfoot.
If you like startling, fierce, and incredibly original poetry grab your ticket from
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
If you like startling, fierce, and incredibly original poetry grab your ticket from
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
April 24, 2025 at 6:02 AM
We are so excited about our next online lounge! It has long been a dream of ours to host Fran Lock and she reads for us next Tuesday -29th April 7pm with Tom Branfoot.
If you like startling, fierce, and incredibly original poetry grab your ticket from
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
If you like startling, fierce, and incredibly original poetry grab your ticket from
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
On the 8th May we welcome to the Festival one of our greatest living poets and the author of eight collections, Michael Symmons Roberts.
Tickets from www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
Joining him will by @annasaund.bsky.social and JLM Morton
Tickets from www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
Joining him will by @annasaund.bsky.social and JLM Morton
April 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
On the 8th May we welcome to the Festival one of our greatest living poets and the author of eight collections, Michael Symmons Roberts.
Tickets from www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
Joining him will by @annasaund.bsky.social and JLM Morton
Tickets from www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
Joining him will by @annasaund.bsky.social and JLM Morton
At the opening event of the Festival (7th May) Ruth Padel will be reading from her dazzling new book Girl, in which she takes a fresh and questioning look at girlhood and its icons, unraveling millennia of myth woven around girls.
Tickets from: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
Tickets from: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
April 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
At the opening event of the Festival (7th May) Ruth Padel will be reading from her dazzling new book Girl, in which she takes a fresh and questioning look at girlhood and its icons, unraveling millennia of myth woven around girls.
Tickets from: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
Tickets from: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
As Anna Saunders says please join us for exquisite poetry from Sean Borodale on May 10th.
Tickets for all events from www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampoetryfestival
Tickets for all events from www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampoetryfestival
'I learnt one night what it is to have the stars
sown through the utility of the body'. Please join us.
@seanborodale reads @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social May 10. @theguardian.com
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
sown through the utility of the body'. Please join us.
@seanborodale reads @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social May 10. @theguardian.com
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
April 9, 2025 at 9:03 AM
As Anna Saunders says please join us for exquisite poetry from Sean Borodale on May 10th.
Tickets for all events from www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampoetryfestival
Tickets for all events from www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampoetryfestival
Two tickets have come available for this previously soldout workshop with prize-winning poet Vanessa Lampert.
Explore what happens when you l let go of your expectations about where you think your poems should go and by what means.
Tickets from: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
Explore what happens when you l let go of your expectations about where you think your poems should go and by what means.
Tickets from: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
March 31, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Two tickets have come available for this previously soldout workshop with prize-winning poet Vanessa Lampert.
Explore what happens when you l let go of your expectations about where you think your poems should go and by what means.
Tickets from: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
Explore what happens when you l let go of your expectations about where you think your poems should go and by what means.
Tickets from: www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
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We are thrilled to have @robinince.bsky.social join us at @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social this year! Robin will be performing some of his astonishing # science-inspired poems and chatting to Jo Durrant . @zoebrooks.bsky.social
You can read more and book here -
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
You can read more and book here -
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
March 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
We are thrilled to have @robinince.bsky.social join us at @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social this year! Robin will be performing some of his astonishing # science-inspired poems and chatting to Jo Durrant . @zoebrooks.bsky.social
You can read more and book here -
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
You can read more and book here -
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
We will be celebrating the life and work of Ivor Daniel at this year's Festival. Ivor was due to read at Poetry and Pythagoras on May 10, and we have now adapted the event so it will include readings of his work by poetry friends.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
March 27, 2025 at 9:34 AM
We will be celebrating the life and work of Ivor Daniel at this year's Festival. Ivor was due to read at Poetry and Pythagoras on May 10, and we have now adapted the event so it will include readings of his work by poetry friends.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
Here's another of our amazing slammers - Samuel L Cohen, WOMAD slam 2023 champion, high-octane lyrical raconteur of the hilarious, the unbelievable and the downright outrageous.
Get your ticket from: cheltplayhouse.org.uk/CheltPlayhou....
Get your ticket from: cheltplayhouse.org.uk/CheltPlayhou....
March 26, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Here's another of our amazing slammers - Samuel L Cohen, WOMAD slam 2023 champion, high-octane lyrical raconteur of the hilarious, the unbelievable and the downright outrageous.
Get your ticket from: cheltplayhouse.org.uk/CheltPlayhou....
Get your ticket from: cheltplayhouse.org.uk/CheltPlayhou....
Two tickets have become available for each of the May Festival workshops. These workshops - a Slight Emergency of the Senses with Sean Borodale and Freeing Your Verse with Vanessa Lampert - had sold out quickly. So if you want to come, head over to www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo....
www.ticketsource.co.uk
March 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
Two tickets have become available for each of the May Festival workshops. These workshops - a Slight Emergency of the Senses with Sean Borodale and Freeing Your Verse with Vanessa Lampert - had sold out quickly. So if you want to come, head over to www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo....
It is with great sorrow that we have learned of the untimely death of Ivor Daniel. Ivor was a tremendous friend of the Festival and of the wider Gloucestershire poetry scene. More importantly he was a really lovely man, who will be sorely missed. Our heartfelt condolences go to his family.
March 25, 2025 at 6:22 PM
It is with great sorrow that we have learned of the untimely death of Ivor Daniel. Ivor was a tremendous friend of the Festival and of the wider Gloucestershire poetry scene. More importantly he was a really lovely man, who will be sorely missed. Our heartfelt condolences go to his family.
Don't miss this showcase of spoken word and poetry from University of Gloucestershire’s Creative Writing Programme and special guests: Chris Campbell & Tess Biddington (winner 2000 Forward Poetry Prize for Best Single Poem)
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampoetryfestival
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampoetryfestival
March 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Don't miss this showcase of spoken word and poetry from University of Gloucestershire’s Creative Writing Programme and special guests: Chris Campbell & Tess Biddington (winner 2000 Forward Poetry Prize for Best Single Poem)
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampoetryfestival
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampoetryfestival
Slaminal Farm ! The 15th Cheltenham Poetry Festival Slam
Saturday 17th May 2025
Get ready for the bardic battle of the year when 15 of the UK’s most exciting spoken-word artists go head-to-head for the coveted title of 2025 Slam Champion.
cheltplayhouse.org.uk/CheltPlayhou...
Saturday 17th May 2025
Get ready for the bardic battle of the year when 15 of the UK’s most exciting spoken-word artists go head-to-head for the coveted title of 2025 Slam Champion.
cheltplayhouse.org.uk/CheltPlayhou...
March 24, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Slaminal Farm ! The 15th Cheltenham Poetry Festival Slam
Saturday 17th May 2025
Get ready for the bardic battle of the year when 15 of the UK’s most exciting spoken-word artists go head-to-head for the coveted title of 2025 Slam Champion.
cheltplayhouse.org.uk/CheltPlayhou...
Saturday 17th May 2025
Get ready for the bardic battle of the year when 15 of the UK’s most exciting spoken-word artists go head-to-head for the coveted title of 2025 Slam Champion.
cheltplayhouse.org.uk/CheltPlayhou...
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#BBC Head of History Robert Seatter joins us this year to talk about The House of Words which brings to life Kelmscott’s fascinating history - setting for the tormented triangular relationship between William, and Jane Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
February 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
#BBC Head of History Robert Seatter joins us this year to talk about The House of Words which brings to life Kelmscott’s fascinating history - setting for the tormented triangular relationship between William, and Jane Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
Here's the list of events! @ruthpadel.bsky.social opens the festival. Among the many highlights are @robinince.bsky.social, Michael Simmons Roberts, Robert Seatter, @josephpconlon.bsky.social, Sean Borodale, Fiona Benson, & the 15th Festival Slam.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
March 23, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Here's the list of events! @ruthpadel.bsky.social opens the festival. Among the many highlights are @robinince.bsky.social, Michael Simmons Roberts, Robert Seatter, @josephpconlon.bsky.social, Sean Borodale, Fiona Benson, & the 15th Festival Slam.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
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The programme for the fabulous Cheltenham Poetry Festival is now available online. Talks, workshops and performances are open for booking, also lots of 'local' poetry pals (including me!). Get booking! cheltenhampoetryfestival.co.uk
@annasaund.bsky.social @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social
@annasaund.bsky.social @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social
March 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The programme for the fabulous Cheltenham Poetry Festival is now available online. Talks, workshops and performances are open for booking, also lots of 'local' poetry pals (including me!). Get booking! cheltenhampoetryfestival.co.uk
@annasaund.bsky.social @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social
@annasaund.bsky.social @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social
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I’m delighted to be returning to @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social in May, hosting 2 in conversation events with @robinince.bsky.social and Joseph Conlon, all about science and poetry! Tickets are now on sale, you won’t want to miss these!
We have a dazzling night of science-inspired poetry @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social on May 9 and guests include @robinince.bsky.social and @ox.ac.uk Professor of Theoretical Physics & Poet @Josephconlon! Plus @joannadurrant.bsky.social hosts! @zoebrooks.bsky.social
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
March 22, 2025 at 8:19 AM
I’m delighted to be returning to @cheltpoetfest.bsky.social in May, hosting 2 in conversation events with @robinince.bsky.social and Joseph Conlon, all about science and poetry! Tickets are now on sale, you won’t want to miss these!
It's tonight - the poetry party of the year - please join us from 7pm. In a world of devalued language and hatred, let some beauty, and wisdom in through poetry and community.
2025 is looking good for poetry -we have some very exciting names lined up at our lounges for Feb and March - and kicking of the year - a party to celebrate 5 years of on-line events.. and look at the line up on this 😍 Thank you @zoebrooks.bsky.social
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
January 7, 2025 at 10:52 AM
It's tonight - the poetry party of the year - please join us from 7pm. In a world of devalued language and hatred, let some beauty, and wisdom in through poetry and community.
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Well, what splendors we have lined- up for our online lounges. We hope these dazzling, inspiring poets will carry you through until spring and offer some light in the darker days. This truly is an all-star program. Join us, from your own homes.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
January 4, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Well, what splendors we have lined- up for our online lounges. We hope these dazzling, inspiring poets will carry you through until spring and offer some light in the darker days. This truly is an all-star program. Join us, from your own homes.
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...
www.ticketsource.co.uk/cheltenhampo...