Essex Poetry Festival UK

Welcome to the Essex Poetry Festival 2017

Particpating this year we have...
Mosaic, Derek Adams, Denis Ahern, Tim Cunningham, Frank Dullaghan, Katy Evans-Bush, Maggie Freeman, Adrian Green, Keely Mills, Rosie Sandler, Dorothy Turner, J.S.Watts
and many more... including You!

This Years Events

Young Essex Poet of the Year competition 2017

Katy Evans-Bush and J. S. Watts
Wednesday October 4th 2017
Southend Poetry Group

Mervyn Linford, plus readings from Poetry Wivenhoes Freedom Poems Competition
Thursday 28th September 2017
poetrywivenhoe

Poetry events in Essex Libraries 2017

South Woodham Ferrers
Saturday 30th September 2017
Mindful Words
in aid of Mind

Harlow
Writing the Garden - Rhythm and Rhyme
an evening of poetry inspired by The Gibberd Garden
+ music from Karen Johnson and Tony Clark.
28th September

Waltham Abbey
Paths Unseen - Poetry Workshop
with Keely Mills
23rd September

Colchester
Great Big Poetry Open Mic with Martin and Dave
11th October

$‘Three Acres And A Cow’ connects the Norman Conquest and Peasants’ Revolt with current issues of fracking and the housing crisis via the Enclosures, English Civil War, Irish Land League and Industrial Revolution, drawing a compelling narrative through the radical people’s history of Britain in folk song, stories and poems.$
Loughton
Three Acres And A Cow
history of land rights in folk song, stories and poems
21st October

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Welcome to the Essex Poetry Festival 2017

This Years Events

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