Winchester Poetry Festival and ArtfulScribe announce new education partnership.

Winchester Poetry Festival and ArtfulScribe, are pleased to announce a new education partnership as part of the festival’s 2020 delivery programme.

Recognising a shared regional focus, comple...

Winchester Poetry Festival has been successful once again in obtaining Arts Council funding and will return in October 2020 with a more ambitious festival than ever before.

Winchester Poetry Festival has become a major player in the poetry world, with a reputation for i...

'Things Being Various' is an interview format with a bit of a difference. It's based on five 'things' the poet brings with them to Winchester, each of which represents a stage in their personal and poetic development.
 
The idea came about over a drink in the summer of...

Poetry is alive and stronger than ever. It has a heartbeat.  Anyone with a glimmer of interest in poetry can come close to that heartbeat at Winchester Poetry Festival with its outstanding assembly of poets from across the world who will come together from 5-7 October.
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One of the principles we have inherited from our founder, Robert Hutchison, is that we are a “festival of poetry, not simply a festival of poets”. This implies two things – that we are interested in extending the audience for poetry beyond those who are ‘in the know’ o...

As usual, this year’s Festival Programme contains some of the biggest names in UK poetry. It was such a wonderful experience to be writing letters of invitation to well-known poets like Ian McMillan, Kathleen Jamie and Hollie McNish and have them say 'yes!' to performi...

Sarah Hesketh and I programmed the weekend like children in a sweet shop and, as you might expect, it’s a line-up of poets we both loved and wanted to share with you. But as former editor of Modern Poetry in Translation and an evangelist for world poetry I’d like to te...

Bishops of the Church of England are not always known for their poetic talents. However, one bishop of London, Henry Montgomery Campbell, who was known, amongst other things, for his dry humour did once try his hand at poetry. He wrote a short poem in his will and aske...