Reading & Libraries
Inspire Poetry Festival 2025 - Desert Island Poems with Imtiaz Dharker
Join us at West Bridgford Library for an evening of wonderful poetry, as acclaimed poet Imtiaz Dhar…
Introducing the Festival Fifteen – our carefully curated list of titles published that are available for you to borrow from Inspire Libraries. You’re sure to find something to whet your appetite in our collection of new, contemporary and prize-winning poets, alongside some old favourites.
Reserve Festival Fifteen titles now by clicking on our catalogue links below
Joy/Us: LGBTQ+ poetry- Potts, Cherry (Editor) and Dixon, Jeremy (Editor)
Bunkers: stories and poems from a nuclear age - Cordle, Daniel (Editor) and Jackson, Sarah (Editor)
Agimat - Ante, Romalyn
Swell - Ferguson, Maria
Pulling the chariot of the sun: a memoir of a kidnapping - McCrae, Shane
The collected poems: 1959 - 2024 - McGough, Roger
Collected poems- Cope, Wendy
The book of bird poems - Sampson, Ana
England's green - Kunial, Zaffar
44 poems on being with each other - O Tuama, Padraig (Editor)
Shadow reader - Dharker, Imtiaz
Daughter of the sun - Spence, Rachel
Dwell - Armitage, Simon
Poyums - Pennie, Len
The Poetry of Flowers - Carr, Samuel
This year's Inspire Poetry Festival will run from Thursday 25 September - Thursday 2 October (National Poetry Day). With performances, workshops, film and an exhibition it’s set to be a week of wonderful words. View our programme now, jam-packed with events across Nottinghamshire.
