Have you booked your tickets to our Headline Event?🎟️🤔 Just a little reminder that tickets are ✨LIVE✨ if you want to see Roger Robinson, Mary Jean Chan, Jasmine Gardosi and Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan performing on stage! | Link in Bio |

📜✨Celebrate the power of words Derby Poetry Festival! 📆2 - 6 Oct Enjoy a vibrant showcase of spoken word, poetry readings, and performances from talented poets. Don’t miss out on this literary celebration! Find out more here ⬇ shorturl.at/TQB1A #DerbyUK #DerbyPoetryFestival

📢LAST CHANCE TO BOOK!📢 Vanessa Kisuule's online poetry workshop takes place tomorrow! If you haven't got your tickets, make sure you book them now before they're gone. | Link in Bio |

In July, I had the pleasure of attending Timber Festival with Derby Poetry Festival and we rocked out at the Youth Landscapers Karaoke Stage! (Images courtesy of Jo Wheeler and Youth Landscapers)

📢LAST CHANCE TO APPLY!📢 Our set designer/carpenter/maker/artist call out closes TOMORROW. Send in your unusual ideas for easy and accessible transportation of a miniature library.📚 | Link in Bio |

Presenting the first of our Saturday lineup for the 2024 Festival: our in-person workshop with poet Helen Mort!🎉 Find out how reading widely can hone your poetry skillset.🔍📖 With useful tips, tricks and recommendations from Helen herself! | Link in Bio |

LOL-gbtq+ returns to The Lord Roberts from 2nd to 9th November as part of Nottingham Comedy Festival featuring performances from Juliette Burton is at #edfringe 2024 with 2 shows, BENTHIC ZONE, Nottingham’s Queer Arts Collective, Bi-Prov, Liv Presents, Craig Deeley 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦, Cerys Bradley and Sian Davies *Best in Class* 🎟️ shorturl.at/Ato02

NEW (FREE) POETRY WALKS JUST DROPPED⏬ And our soonest one's this weekend!🌳 Join us for a creative day out and explore the reservoir in a different way. With two times to choose from and poems for all the family.📖 Free to join but booking essential. | Link in Bio |

You don't want to miss this...👀 It's our last Digital Workshop before the Festival!!😱Featuring award-winning choreopoet Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa, this workshop's all about the music.🎶 Seek inspiration in popular tunes and unlock new and original writing. Book now ⏬ | Link in Bio |

This week's Festival Friday brings you this family-friendly workshop with Jasmine Gardosi. Ever tried beatboxing? What about beatbox poetry? Make language your playground as you toy with words and rhythm, crafting your very own tongue twisters and beatbox poems. | Link in Bio |

🚨LAST CHANCE TO SIGN UP🚨 Entries close TOMORROW.⏳ If you want the chance to be this year's Slam Champion, make sure you've filled out our quick application form before time runs out...🕜😱 | Link in Bio |

Poets, performers and spoken word artists📢 Are you looking for a slam championship title to add to your repertoire?🤔 Sign up now for the chance to take home this year's DPF Slam prize! 14 competitors, 1 crown - who will win?!👑 D/L: THIS SUNDAY, 1st Sep 2024. | Link in Bio |

What a way to finish off the first of our Festival workshops!🎇 We're thrilled to welcome John Tams and guests (TBC) to Derby Museums.❤️ For a poetic afternoon full of introspection, love of language and, without a doubt, plenty of music, book your tickets now! | Link in Bio |

We’re so delighted that Joshua Idehen Songbook: Collected Works is a PoetryBookSoc Winter Recommendation ✨🥂 This book has been a long time coming, and its recognition by the PBS selectors is testament to Josh’s vital contribution to poetry.

🚨Workshop 🚨 Sat 5th Oct, join us and the brilliant Helen Mort  “‘Whose Line Is It Anyway? Reading and the 'anxiety of influence'” explores how reading widely can feed your creative practice.  Expect discussion & creative writing prompts Tickets in Bio

After a packed Festival weekend, you might be looking for something creative you can do from the comfort of home...🏠 We've got you!😉 Our Sunday lineup is chockablock with online workshops - starting with Laurie Bolger's Creative Writing Breakfast Club!🥐 | Link in Bio |

🤝 Meet the Poet: Jasmine Gardosi Jasmine will be joining us at the festival for several events. Hosting a workshop, performing at The Wardwick @Derby Museum and Art Gallery and maybe even on Friday evening 👀 #poetry #derby #poetryworkshop

First Fridays: Derby Poetry Festival #Slam 🎤 Back for a 6th year, who'll be this year’s Slam Champion? Join us at Museum of Making at Derby Silk Mill for a lively night. 14 poets will compete, we’ll be announcing the line-up soon, & tickets are available for this event #derbypoetryfestival2024

Join us Dubrek for a family-friendly affair, a #beatboxing & #poetryworkshop With Birmingham Poet Laureate & Honorary Doctor of Letters Jasmine Gardosi we’ll use language as our playground as we mess with words & make rhythms, tongue twisters & beatbox #poems Tickets in Bio

🤝Meet the Poet: Mary Jean Chan  We can’t help but to be excited to announce another #poet joining us at our headline event back at The Wardwick Derby Museums Find Mary Jean Chan on Saturday 6th October, from 7:30 pm alongside several other performers. Tickets in Bio