Poetry Off the Page

28/02/2026

27/01/2026

Calling all poets!

Alright lovely performance poets who currently reside in the sunny and pebbly city known as Brighton 🌊

Applications close on Sunday for our emerging artist programme with AFLO. 5 weeks of in-person workshops ready to spice up your performance skills and get yourself poetry fantastic.

Link in bio - send your apps in now and enjoy the weekend.

21/01/2026

Promising!

Annemarie Ní Churreáin’s “Hymn to All the Restless Girls” follows ravens and speaks ancient languages to reckon with a national legacy misogyny

20/01/2026

'Live Poetry - An Integrated Approach to Poetry in Performance' (2011) - our PI's, Julia Lajta-Novak's, book is now also available in Open Access:
https://brill.com/display/title/29466

The publication provides "a full methodological ‘toolkit’ for the analysis of live poetry by drawing together approaches from diverse disciplines concerned with speech and forms of cultural performance."

"Live Poetry" published on 01 Jan 2011 by Brill.

20/01/2026

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"Poetry Off the Page: Literary History and the Spoken Word, 1965-2020" is a five-year ERC/FWF-funded project at the Department of English and American Studies, University of Vienna. Find more information about the project on the official website, https://poetryoffthepage.net/. As a subscriber to thi...

15/01/2026

'Online' by Hollie Poetry / Hollie McNish 👑

14/01/2026

🦋Poets: Apples and Snakes are looking for you🦋

📢 Calling emerging spoken word artists! 📢

We're looking for 5 emerging artists for 5 workshops as part of our Poet in The City X Apples and Snakes strand of work.

Successful applicants will work with acclaimed poet .thepoet in Brighton during Feb & March.

AFLO is a Brighton based poet, known for poetry that blends sharp social commentary with emotional depth, exploring race, identity, mental health & justice.

Find out more and apply here 👇
https://bit.ly/49KZnEw

07/01/2026

Listening to Hollie Poetry / Hollie McNish guiding us through the start of the year

11/12/2025

Poetry film submissions: The deadline by Art Visuals & Poetry has been extended to January 15, 2026!

03/12/2025

A poetic journey on and with the spoken poetic word, what a joy!

Rhyming Mindfully | A Mindful Tour of Seamus Heaney’s Poetry Date Every Wednesday at 2pm Location Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again, Westmoreland Street, Dublin, D02 VR66 Category Tour Price Free Book now Book now Date Every Wednesday at 2pm Location Seamus Heaney: Listen Now Again, Westmoreland Str...

27/11/2025

AND our Postdoctoral Researcher Rachel Bosse-Debessay wrote the article "Music and Literary Imagination: The Creative Impulse of Sonic Vibrations in Dub Poetry" for the edited collection 'Poetry, Music, and Sound Art / Lyrik, Musik und Klangkunst. Recent Medial Correlations / Neuere mediale Konstellationen' (eds. Rebecka Dürr, Kira Henkel, and Vadim Keylin):

Music and Literary Imagination: The Creative Impulse of Sonic Vibrations in Dub Poetry was published in Poetry, Music, and Sound Art / Lyrik, Musik und Klangkunst on page 57.