DEADLINE EXTENDED – as there were problems with EVENTBRITE today we've extended the deadline to Tuesday 21 October, midnight (UK time).

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2025 Waltham Forest Poetry Competition: WEATHER / WHETHER Enter the Waltham Forest Poetry Competition

URGENT UPDATE – due to worldwide problems with EVENTBRITE, we've extended the deadline to Tue 21 Oct, midnight.

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2025 Waltham Forest Poetry Competition: WEATHER / WHETHER Enter the Waltham Forest Poetry Competition

Today's the LAST CHANCE to enter the Waltham Forest Poetry Competition. It closes at midnight.

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poems on the theme of WEATHER (and/or you can also send poems on the theme of WHETHER)

1️⃣ find Weather/Whether poems
2️⃣ enter the Waltham Forest Poetry Competition
3️⃣ do it by Monday
4️⃣ done!

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2025 Waltham Forest Poetry Competition: WEATHER / WHETHER Enter the Waltham Forest Poetry Competition

Got a poem about Weather (and/or its soundalike Whether)?
The Waltham Forest Poetry Competition, judged by the fabulous Lorraine Mariner invites you to send poems on the theme of WEATHER/WHETHER.
Hurry though. Closing date is MONDAY 20 OCTOBER.
www.bit.ly/wfpoetrycomp

Elizabeth Bishop, Letter to N Y
'I'd like to know / what you are doing and where you are going'

Refugees are as British as Fish and Chips - A Call for Poems The Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series invites poems and short prose focusing on the escalating tragedy of refugee deaths in th...

The Africa Migration Report Poetry Anthology Series is inviting poems and short prose focusing on the escalating tragedy of refugee deaths in the English Channel (La Manche). forcedmigrationandthearts.blogspot.com/2025/09/refu...

I do so enjoy a Whitman 'snog, marry, avoid' poem

your body has become not yours only nor left my body mine only

The Waltham Forest Poetry Competition, judged by the fabulous Lorraine Mariner, invites you to send poems on the theme of WEATHER/WHETHER. Over £1,000 in prizes. Entry fee for adults is from £3, FREE for young poets under the age of 18. Closing date is MONDAY 20 OCTOBER.

www.bit.ly/wfpoetrycomp

I cried once as a boy when I'd to leave her

Tony Harrison on the death of his mum

You ask for a poem
I offer you a blade of grass

The late, great Brian Patten wishes you #HappyNationalPoetryDay

And sometimes it happens that you are loved and then you are not loved

Brian Patten

"This form of poetry gives everyone a voice"... Max Terry Fishel, one of our Poems Not Bombs regulars, speaks out on the delights of the poetry open mic in the Guardian today

Poems Not Bombs, Spice Of Life, Soho, Thu 21 Aug, 1.30pm, is a special feat. the velvet voice of John Hurley.

If you'd like to read, sign up with me on the day before 1.30. YOU'RE INVITED TO BRING POEMS ON AN IRISH THEME IF YOU HAVE ANY.

AIR CONDITIONING!

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Tonight! marinerdartford.eventbrite.co.uk

Thu 24 Jul, Trades Hall, Walthamstow, we present the wonderful Lorraine Mariner w/ Ralph Dartford, Tusshara Nalakumar Srilatha and Michael Shann... open mic too. Tix: £4/£2 (members) marinerdartford.eventbrite.co.uk or on the door. 7.30pm. **AIR CONDITIONING** Here's Lorraine's poem 'Thursday'

Forest Poets (& friends) are reading at the Summer Picnic, Walthamstow, Sun 13 July - 3pm to 4pm - names so far are Alan White, Ivana Demmel, David McDade, Tusshara Nalakumar, John Stiles, Pip McDonald, & Hannah Stanislaus, and me! Give us a nod if you'd like to join us!

HOT🔥 poetry! Poems Not Bombs in the air con this afternoon. Spice of Life. SoHo.

LOOK! 👁 Our NEXT 'Forest Poets and guests' event is Thu 24 July, at the Trades Hall, Walthamstow, with Lorraine Mariner and Ralph Dartford, plus support from Forest Poets Tusshara Nalakumar Srilatha and Michael Shann.

TICKETS 👇
marinerdartford.eventbrite.co.uk

PROCEEDS FROM THIS EVENT GO TO LOCAL FOODBANK EAT OR HEAT - Tickets from TheFall.eventbrite.co.uk
A whole night of Fall music to Dance&ShoutAlongTo.

Walthamstow TUE 10 JUN🎉

I felt the urge to reassure him that I was like everybody else, just like everybody else.
Albert Camus, The Stranger

Aw. THANK YOU for bringing the Harlow massive to little old Walthamstow x

Just some of the tunes you'll hear at An Evening with the Fall (though not necessarily in this order), Thursday 10 June, Walthamstow Trades Hall, London

TheFall.eventbrite.co.uk

TONIGHT!

Tim Wells and friends plus open mic. 7.30pm, Walthamstow Trades Hall

All for just £4/£2 Trades Hall members at TimWells.eventbrite.co.uk or on the door.

Heather Moulson, 'Paper Boy' - Heather is the guest of Forest Poets NEXT THU 10 April, Walthamstow Trades Hall w/ Tim Wells, Heather Mary Sullivan (Poetry Bird), Ailsa Betts & Sophia Brandner

+ Poetry open mic. £4/£2 Trades Hall members timwells.eventbrite.co.uk or on the door.

Poetry News Stanza pages featuring some of the Waltham Forest Poetry Comp winners 😁inc our judge @jsaphra.bsky.social and winner @livtuckwrites.bsky.social

Coming soon! Thu 10 Apr, 7.30pm. Tim Wells plays
Walthamstow Trades Hall w/ Poetry Bird, Heather Moulson, Sophia Brandner and Ailsa Betts
and POETRY OPEN MIC too! There should be a lot of laughs at this one!
£4/£2 Trades Hall members timwells.eventbrite.co.uk or on the door.

Poetry Bird supports Tim Wells, Trades Hall, Walthamstow, w/ Heather Moulson, Ailsa Betts & Sophia Brandner - there's a poetry open mic too. There should be a lot of laughs at this one! Thursday 10 April, 7.30pm. Tickets from timwells.eventbrite.co.uk or on the door, £4/£2 Trades Hall members.

Poems Not Bombs at the Trades Hall, Walthamstow FREE EVENT! For poets of all experiences and levels to come and share their work. Sign up on the night.

There's no Poems Not Bombs poetry open mic at the Trades Hall, Walthamstow, this month. Not long to wait for the next one, though. Thursday, 24 April 7pm. Free, free, free.

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