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Inspire Poetry Festival 2025

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Inspire Poetry Festival is back for 2025! This year's 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. See below for a taster of what's to come. Look out for the full printed programme (including headliners) in your local library and online, coming soon! 

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Coming soon! Look out for 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. 

Bad Ideas Club workshops

FREE Bad Ideas Club writing workshops will be taking place at three Nottinghamshire libraries in the run-up to the festival culminating in an afternoon of poetry live at Mansfield Central Library on Saturday 27 September at 1.30pm with independent publishers Bad Betty Press, featuring Leanne Moden and Chris Lanyon and hosted by Jake Wild Hall.

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