Poetry For All

27/11/2025

POETRY FOR ALL HAVE JUST RECEIVED FUNDING!!! GRATEFUL TO ACKNOWLEDGE TWO RIDINGS COMMUNITY FUND!!
Too stunned to weep for joy.
Wilf Foundation and Jax Hagen We'll be R**t have helped significantly, but Two Ridings means I'm not charging this to a credit card omgggggggg
So. Much. Joy.

27/11/2025

‘I’ve always thought that anger is one thing that eats up a person’s insides,’ star admits as he closes in on milestone birthday

27/11/2025

Here's the livestream link!! £3. Last year folks all over the UK, US & even in Oz tuned in. Why not you too? Sample video from 2023 in the listing. Join us! https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/poetry-for-all-accessible-bsl-interpreted-livestreamed-and-in-person-tickets-1975763525892?

Join us via Livestream! Listen to poets, or read the BSL interpretation, or the words on the screen. In person or on screen: Poetry for ALL

26/11/2025

And finally, Dominic Berry! Such a shy quiet lad.... KIDDING. Okay maybe he is when he's not on stage but when he's on stage he's ON FIRE.

26/11/2025

Headliners!! Pete Kalu, fresh off his book launch, where the room was packed full. And for Poetry for All, he's sent in great poems!

26/11/2025

Emily has grown up surrounded by poetry. Claims not to like it and then writes really good stuff! EMILY was a paid poet even before *I* was! (i am not jealous. Nope.)
Photo taken at the long lost lamented BeSpeak. Ben Hamilton photographer.

26/11/2025

We're graced by Tanya Parker - brilliant poems: they are elegant and yet edgy, like a razor-toothed teddybear

26/11/2025

Next, we'll have the amazing Cath Nichols! I've read the poems, now i can hardly wait to enjoy the performance.

26/11/2025

Such a great line up this week!! We have Muireall - brilliant pianist, singer, and poet! Oh and she can analyze skeletons too!

21/11/2025

Featuring Dominic Berry, Pete Kalu, Fay Roberts, Rose Drew, Cath Nichols, Muireall, Tanya Parker, Gillian Avart, Dai O'Brien, with a teensy slot by Emily Drew, and interpreted by Dave Wycherley and Viccie Ackroyd.

YES!!! We ARE having an event this year: next week in fact! ALT TEXT in comments

Friday 28 November, NCEM Walmgate York, 7pm doors for 7.30pm start.

NEW this year!! Tarot card readings by Gillian Avart, who relies on a VI-friendly deck for her super-special readings. Gillian will share one poem but is here to offer readings throughout the (non performance) parts of the evening.

https://ncem.co.uk/events/poetry-for-all/

Headliners: PETE KALU and DOMINIC BERRY!!!

Support from Muireall, Cath Nichols, Tanya Parker, and Em! Short presentation on the difference between poetry by hearing poets and BSL poetry by Deaf poets. Perhaps a visit by an MP!

£8 gen admission, £5 concessions (unwaged, disabled, elders, students). Service dogs and PAs/Carers are welcome.

NCEM: St Margarets Church, 88-96 Walmgate, York YO1 9TL