NEWS | Poetry-Festival

Hampshire Young Poets competition 2023 is open!

The Hampshire Young Poets competition 2023 is officially open! The theme this year is 'home' and Winchester Poetry Festival and Hampshire...

New Festival Manager for 2023

We are delighted to announce the appointment of Amy Juliet Brown as our new Festival Manager. Amy will be working alongside Artistic...

Winchester Poetry Prize 2022 winners announced

The 2022 Winchester Poetry Prize has been won by Luke Palmer of Corsham in Wiltshire for his poem Desire | Fathers. Luke becomes the...

Nazneen Ahmed Pathak announced as new Hampshire Poet

After a countywide search, the hunt for the Hampshire Poet is over. Nazneen Ahmed Pathak from Southampton was selected from a very strong...

Clare Pollard appointed as Artistic Director

We are delighted to announce the appointment of a new Artistic Director. The poet, editor and writer, Clare Pollard, joins the festival...

The Chair sums it up

“I welcomed the festival with open arms! It was so good to have active, vibrant energy in the space once more. Most enjoyable!” “I loved...

Greg Gilbert 1977 – 2021

Greg Gilbert 1977 – 2021 It is with great regret that we hear that Greg Gilbert has died. In an announcement on social media his wife...

An international festival grounded in our community

Sasha Dugdale talks about programming the 2021 festival As you’ll know we had to cancel the poetry festival last year, and this year we...

Lewis Buxton wins 2020 Winchester Poetry Prize

The 2020 Winchester Poetry Prize has been won by Lewis Buxton of Norwich for his poem Field Dressing a Rabbit. Lewis becomes the fifth...

Festival news

In view of the continuing uncertainty about restrictions arising from the pandemic, the festival’s trustees have decided it is not...

Winchester Poetry Prize

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

Lockdown Laureate

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

An update from Winchester Poetry Festival

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

Hampshire Poet 2020

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

Inspiring creative voices

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

Winchester Poetry Festival Granted Arts Council Funding

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

Things Being Various

'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...

Lifting poetry from the page...

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...

Lifting the veil

One of the principles we have inherited from our founder, Robert Hutchison, is that we are a “festival of poetry, not simply a festival...

Discovering something completely new...

As usual, this year’s Festival Programme contains some of the biggest names in UK poetry. It was such a wonderful experience to be...

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