Teignmouth Poetry Festival 2025
Event details
- Event times:
- Start : 5.45pm
- Start : 8.00pm
Poetry Open Mic
Saturday 29th March – 5.45pm
No advance booking necessary - you can request a free ticket on arrival at the Box Office on the day (please arrive in good time for the start of the performance), or, if preferred, you can opt to book your free ticket in advance
A chance to present your latest and finest to a friendly festival audience. Specially welcome will be poets who are visiting Teignmouth from elsewhere. Precise format and length of reading slots will depend upon numbers taking part.
MC Marc Woodward
Free ticketed event
Unassigned seating
1hr
If you wish to request accessible seating or a wheelchair space - please contact the Box Office on 01626 249049
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An Evening of Poetry with Raymond Antrobus
Saturday 29th March - 8pm
Raymond Antrobus MBE FRSL is a British poet, educator and writer, who has been performing poetry since 2007. In March 2019, he won the Ted Hughes Award for new work in poetry. In May 2019, Antrobus became the first poet to win the Rathbones Folio Prize for his collection
The Perseverance, praised by chair of the judges as "an immensely moving book of poetry which uses his deaf experience, bereavement and Jamaican-British heritage to consider the ways we all communicate with each other." Antrobus was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2020
£10.00
Assigned seating
1hr