https://warepoets.org/whats-on daily 1.0 2026-02-18 https://warepoets.org/whats-on/kt49kv88h3yqisjnn1q27gd6vbt6jv-4fnfc-j8epe-gdrxt-kla42-57mex monthly 0.5 2026-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a096a8c641310d52032b64/58ad1c92-a8f7-4d53-b68f-94ec4ab03661/image0+2.jpeg What's on - Tashaney Hibbert-Jones, Ray Harper, Andrew Geary - Ray Harper, an otherwise handyman, fitted for the rigours of the prosaic life; a kind of maker, builder, mender person, retired now from remunerative tasks but not from the uncertainties as to what he has been or might become; confesses to the occasional lapse wherein he may succumb to some preternatural urge and thus express himself by poetry. Words molest him, talk wrong-foots him, melodies obsess him. Oh! And he dances. He dances tango. Only tango, Argentine Tango. https://warepoets.org/whats-on/kt49kv88h3yqisjnn1q27gd6vbt6jv-4fnfc-j8epe-gdrxt-hbsgr-ter2t monthly 0.5 2026-02-15 https://warepoets.org/whats-on/kt49kv88h3yqisjnn1q27gd6vbt6jv-4fnfc-j8epe-gdrxt-kla42 monthly 0.5 2026-02-15 https://warepoets.org/whats-on/kt49kv88h3yqisjnn1q27gd6vbt6jv-4fnfc-j8epe-gdrxt-hbsgr-4wytn monthly 0.5 2025-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a096a8c641310d52032b64/95adab87-77a8-4394-a3a2-d7194fe3c06c/Screenshot+2025-09-18+at+08.09.55.png What's on - Daljit Nagra - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://warepoets.org/whats-on/kt49kv88h3yqisjnn1q27gd6vbt6jv-4fnfc-j8epe-gdrxt-hbsgr monthly 0.5 2025-11-25 https://warepoets.org/whats-on/mary-mulholland monthly 0.5 2025-11-24 https://warepoets.org/whats-on/kt49kv88h3yqisjnn1q27gd6vbt6jv-4fnfc-j8epe-gdrxt monthly 0.5 2025-11-24 https://warepoets.org/whats-on/kt49kv88h3yqisjnn1q27gd6vbt6jv-4fnfc-j8epe monthly 0.5 2025-11-25 https://warepoets.org/whats-on/kt49kv88h3yqisjnn1q27gd6vbt6jv-4fnfc monthly 0.5 2025-11-24 https://warepoets.org/past-events daily 0.75 2026-02-15 https://warepoets.org/past-events/stuart-handysides monthly 0.5 2025-11-27 https://warepoets.org/past-events/3k7sa9bzppqcnknhzh0atfezlhpj5c monthly 0.5 2025-11-24 https://warepoets.org/past-events/kt49kv88h3yqisjnn1q27gd6vbt6jv-ykjpc monthly 0.5 2025-09-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a096a8c641310d52032b64/95adab87-77a8-4394-a3a2-d7194fe3c06c/Screenshot+2025-09-18+at+08.09.55.png Past events - Patience Agbabi - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a096a8c641310d52032b64/e2403da4-7252-4a5b-bb70-c18ebbedb90c/2025+08+27+-+Arts+in+East+Herts+-+logo+in+Colour.png Past events - Patience Agbabi - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://warepoets.org/past-events/hetty-cliss-e7jnr-tb6jd monthly 0.5 2025-09-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a096a8c641310d52032b64/20e667f9-dbc7-40d8-b71a-0e8e79c3eb27/WhatsApp+Image+2025-06-08+at+22.11.24.jpeg Past events - Suzanne Pountney, Ashton Read & Thomas Anthony Ginn Ashton Read is an aspiring young poet and watercolour artist who has been writing, reading, and expressing various forms of verse in the local community since the age of 15. Taking inspiration from the Romantic poets, with echoes of William Blake and Percy Bysshe Shelley in their work, Ashton has been placed in and won several local competitions, such as the 2024 "A New View" collection and the Mayor of Hertford's "Beautiful RIvers" writing competition (2025). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a096a8c641310d52032b64/6915ee90-1f56-4099-8dc6-b112db27fa6f/IMG_0842.png Past events - Suzanne Pountney, Ashton Read & Thomas Anthony Ginn Thomas Anthony Ginn is a local writer and regular contributor to Ware Poets. His poetry captures the essence of everyday life, while documenting the fast paced changes of the world we live in. He does this with humour and beauty in a way that would please both poetry enthusiasts and normal people https://warepoets.org/past-events/nrexk4mxepx349zg5usn7wo5tw2mzh-tdytz monthly 0.5 2025-06-23 https://warepoets.org/past-events/hetty-cliss-e7jnr monthly 0.5 2025-06-08 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a096a8c641310d52032b64/ecca9c62-7e05-4675-b06a-7e816fadfe4b/IMG-20240221-WA0004.jpg Past events - Luca Spiller and Amir Darwish Amir Darwish is a British Syrian poet & writer of Kurdish origin who lives in London. Born in Aleppo in 1979, he came to Britain as an asylum seeker in 2003. His work has been published and anthologised worldwide. His poetry was translated into Arabic, Bengali, Estonian, Finnish, Italian, Spanish, and Turkish, amongst other languages. He was part of several radio programmes, including BBC 4, BBC World Service and Refugee Radio. Amir was invited and attended literary and poetry festivals worldwide, including Finland, India, Italy, Turkey, Morocco, and Estonia. His two collections of poetry are Dear Refugee (Smokestack, 2019) & Don’t Forget the Couscous (Smokestack, 2015). https://warepoets.org/past-events/hetty-cliss-86nk5 monthly 0.5 2025-11-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a096a8c641310d52032b64/67f3b270-7996-44ce-bf5b-258dec5406e1/IMG_3396.JPG Past events - Maggie Butt & Maggie Harris Maggie Harris’s new collection I Sing with the Green Hearts is published by Seren in February. It is rebellious, open-hearted and world-inhabiting with a vibrant and rich verbal pallette which embraces a range of Englishes. It sings for forests and nature and people, loud, clear and sweet. The greenheart of the collection’s title references Guyana’s hardwood tree, used throughout the world, whilst ‘green’ and ‘heart’ echo the importance of our ecology and our emotional response to how nature has been and is colonised by our needs. https://warepoets.org/past-events/nrexk4mxepx349zg5usn7wo5tw2mzh monthly 0.5 2025-02-25 https://warepoets.org/past-events/ware-poetry-competition-prize-giving-1-g23r9-zap8t monthly 0.5 2025-02-02 https://warepoets.org/past-events/hetty-cliss monthly 0.5 2025-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a096a8c641310d52032b64/b4ab4e89-2dd8-4e09-971d-612943c4a26b/Cover_portrait-5.jpg Past events - Hetty Cliss & Damen O’Brien Damen O’Brien is a multi-award-winning Australian poet. Damen's prizes include The Moth Poetry Prize, the Magma Judge's Award, the Cafe Writers Poetry Competition, the Welsh International Poetry Competition, Ware Poets Competition 2024 and many more. His poems can be found in Live Encounters, Dust, Aesthetica Literary Journal and Arc Poetry Magazine. Damen's latest book of poetry is Walking the Boundary (Pitt Street Poetry, 2024). www.dameno.org https://warepoets.org/past-events/pascale-petit monthly 0.5 2025-02-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63a096a8c641310d52032b64/3fd27627-a011-41c8-9c33-6239ec5e98aa/9781780377377_FC.jpg Past events - Pascale Petit In Beast, an estranged father reappears as a hunter, while Maman is an orb spider or a grand piano; both are predators. And there are earthly beasts – wild horses and bulls, lammergeiers, bee-eaters and catfish, remnants of a vanishing natural world. Beast asks if survival is possible in an abusive family and on an abused home planet, with trials such as climate change, childhood trauma and war. 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