Tickets for StAnza on sale now

I have been buying my tickets.

Looking forward very much to seeing Lemn Sissay and Don Patterson on Friday night but I am also loving the German strand with events like Anna Crowe, Michael Donhauser, Odile Kennel, and Don Paterson again in a VERSschmuggel (verse smuggling) reading. I thought this would be the time I would get to hear Sean O'Brien but I have a very strong commitment to being in a forest on Sunday so that is not to be. Excellent line-up all through the festival and that is not to mention the open mics and of course just rubbing shoulders with everyone in St Andrews.

I will be reading myself alongside the fabulous Lindsay Macgregor, Em Strang and Samuel Tongue http://stanzapoetry.org/festival/events/new-writers-showcase.

Tickets available and all the interesting stuff you could possibly need here http://stanzapoetry.org/

Top tip: Oxfam on South Street do a fabulous spread of all their poetry books. Impossible to resist....

Poetry International London, England 17th - 21st July 2014

A feast of poetry on the south bank: this festival was founded by English poet Ted Hughes. It aims to unsettle and inspire.

Poets include Sujata Bhatt, Ana Blandiana, Carolyn Forché, Durs Grünbein, Robert Hass,  Kutti Revathi, Nikola Madzirov, Mohamed El Deeb, Patrick McGuinness and Don Paterson. Plus many others in readings, workshops, innovative spoken-word performances, free events, poetry films, exhibitions and new commissions and translations.

You can find the full details here http://www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whatson/festivals-series/poetry-international and the programme here http://issuu.com/southbank_centre/docs/89288_poetry_international_lr_pdf_p.