We asked QES students their thoughts on the climate crisis. Their inspiring poems are on exhibition at the Kirkby Lonsdale Library Thursday-Sunday!

We're getting excited for the Kirkby Lonsdale Poetry Festival this upcoming weekend 📚☀️🌻 On Saturday 13th and Sunday 14th from 1-3PM you can catch some poet relays in The Book Lounge, where poets will be coming in to do short readings and signing a baton!

There will be all sorts going on around town too, from performances and workshops, to open mics and typewriter busking. It's all set to be an exciting weekend so make sure you stop by! Come and grab a flyer and find out more information at kirkbylonsdalepoetry.co.uk Kirkby Lonsdale Poetry Festival

We've got FREE Workshops all day today in Kirkby Lonsdale! Have a gander at the line up here :)

We're kicking off Kirkby Lonsdale Poetry Festival at our Open Mic tonight! Doors open 7.30pm at the Lunesdale Hall. Come along to watch or perform :) Includes a performance by DJ and rapper SWERVE & JD!

A Great weekend of events

All this goodness happening in Kirkby today! Performances, free workshops, flashmobs, plays, typewriter busking and loads of other cool stuff :)

Tickets are still available on the door for all our events today and tomorrow! Go have a look what's on: KirkbyLonsdalePoetry.co.uk

Two of the countries warmest, funniest and most talented poets in the UK (Katie Hale - novelist & poet 🌈 and Erin Bolens) are performing at St. Mary's Church at 11.30am! It's not one to miss. Tickets on the door. Kirkbylonsdalepoetry.co.uk

How'd you find Kirkby Lonsdale Poetry Festival? We've made a quick little feedback form! It'd be really awesome to hear what you liked this year and what we could do better next time. (also to help us make sure there is a next time!) :)))) cognitoforms.com/MattSowerby/Ki…

Huge love for all the Queer poets involved with our festival. None of it could have happened without you. Thank you to Matthew for this wonderful thread.

Excellent, well researched semi-regular newsletter here, by poet & activist Matt Sowerby. Subscribe to receive little parcels of hope (in the form of stories, thoughts, tools and tips) delivered to your inbox, drawing on history, literature, art, and politics. :) Queen Elizabeth School, Kirkby Lonsdale

My article "Other Ways to See: Ruskin’s View in the Anthropocene" has just been published by The DarkMountainProject! It's about the Kirkby Lonsdale's campaign to #SaveRuskinsView, the dark bits of the View's history, and how this all fits in with climate change. tinyurl.com/3w88wwxs

Kirkby Lonsdale Poetry Festival would never have happened without Kendal Poetry Festival. Thank you to the KPF organisers for creating and sustaining it for so long. It will be missed.

Massive congratulations to Hannah Hodgson ♿️ for winning the Wordsworth Grasmere Prize for Literature and Poetry at the Lakeland Book Awards!