9th Festival of Suffolk Poetry – live! Saturday, 13 May afternoon

Saturday, 13 May 2023 sees us live at the John Peel Centre. The afternoon brings us Poetry Cafés from Suffolk, plus some new delights.

• Mina Gorji – headlines the afternoon with a reading
• Dave Tonge – Storyteller, promises to enchant and intrigue with the spoken word
• Richard Whiting – provides a close reading of a poem dear to him
• Joanna Ingham – gives a close reading and a reading of her own work
• Suffolk Poetry Cafés – Poetry Aloud, Felixstowe Café Poets and Waveney Poets reveal all
• Open Mic – your chance to shine (Register to read on entry. Available slots are limited).

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Ticket discounts!

SPS Members can add an evening ticket for only £7.50, saving £5.00 on the two parts.
Non-Members can add the evening for £10.00, also saving £5.00.

Add it under 'Extra Service'.

It is helpful for the on-site Café Green to know if you will be eating with them beforehand, so please indicate in the box provided. Café Green is all vegetarian with vegan and gluten-free options.

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Mina Gorji was born in Iran and lives in Cambridge, where she is Associate Professor at the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge and a fellow of Pembroke college. Her debut, Art of Escape (Carcanet, 2020), a Telegraph ‘Book of the Month’, has been described as a collection of "exquisite miniatures that suggest worlds" (FiveBooks, 2020), "intricate, considered poems which encourage us to democratise our attention and empathy" (Guardian). She has published poems in Poetry Review, Magma, London Magazine, bath magg, bad lilies and the Forward Book of Poetry amongst others. She has also written a study of John Clare's poetry, and essays on weeds, rudeness, little things and listening; a lyric-critical essay, Listening for Stars, was published in Poetry Review (2021).