Poetry Parnassus Events

A global gathering of leading directors, publishers and writers to help locate poetry's place in the world and revolutionise how we work in the 21st Century.

Christian Campbell is a writer of Bahamian and Trinidadian heritage. He studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar and received a PhD at Duke.

Southbank Centre invites you to join us in celebrating some of the best poetry the world has to offer.

In a firework display of poetry, leading international poets read alongside each other as well as UK-based poets. Be at this event and be smug.

Six world poets from six continents read with Jo Shapcott and Poetry Parnassus curator, Simon Armitage.

Jo Shapcott has won a number of literary prizes including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Collection, the Forward Prize for Best Collection and the National Poetry Competition (...

Born in Pakistan, Imtiaz Dharker grew up a Muslim Calvinist in a Lahori household in Glasgow and eloped with a Hindu Indian to live in Bombay. She now lives between India, London and Wales.

'To be a writer is to acknowledge the secret wounds that we carry inside us.' (Orhan Pamuk)

This workshop focuses on how poets learn from other poets. What do we borrow, steal, transform, improve, abandon and reinvestigate?