Now its fourth year, Morecambe Poetry Festival will bring three nights of poetry to the seaside town alongside grassroots performances, family activities, workshops, poetry takeovers and open mics.
The programme features children’s author and poet Michael Rosen taking to the stage with Clare Ferguson Walker, John Healey, Jan Brierton, Henry Normal who returns for a fourth year bringing Nigel Planer with him and Robin Ince.
A pedal-powered stage outside the library will invite children to pedal and perform their own poetry, created during free poetry workshops in local primary schools with Northern poet Louise Fazackerly.
Takeover events at the festival by out of town collectives continues with Speech Therapy, Nottingham’s longest running spoken word night, as well poetry takeovers from London, Wordsworth Grasmere and Manchester poets remembering poet and friend Jackie Hagan.
Festival founder Matt Panesh said: “I’m so excited for this year’s festival. We’ve finally managed to get Michael Rosen, which is a big coup for the festival, along with many of our poets coming back for the third or even fourth time! I’m always amazed at how quickly we’ve grown with the bill being filled earlier than ever this year.”
Weekend passes are available here at £65 plus booking fees for access to every single event and performance including a pre-fest meet up on the 11 September.
