Stephen Boyce, Chair of Winchester Poetry Festival, talks about the development of the Winchester Poetry Prize which is now in its fifth year. Entering poetr...

An update from Kathryn Bevis, Hampshire Poet 2020 Since hearing the news of my appointment just before Christmas, I’ve been like a small child in a cake shop...

For the last 18 months our creative team have been putting together our fourth biennial festival due to take place in October. Our theme for 2020 is the spec...

Following a county-wide search, the hunt for the Hampshire Poet 2020 is over. Kathryn Bevis from Winchester was chosen as Hampshire Poet 2020 from a very str...

Winchester Poetry Festival and ArtfulScribe announce new education partnership. Winchester Poetry Festival and ArtfulScribe, are pleased to announce a new ed...

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

'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 ...

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 Poetr...

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 impli...

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 invitat...

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 w...

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, amon...