Welcome to the Torbay Festival of Poetry.
Over the years, Torbay Festival of Poetry has established itself as one of the friendliest Festivals around. The whole atmosphere is based round the ethos of good poetry interspersed with sociable breaks when poet meets poet, audience meets poet and audience meets audience. The ambience is relaxing and geared to inspiring everyone, poets and non-poets alike, to enjoy offerings from some of the best poets around: from new talented writers to established and well-known and loved poets.
MAKE A NOTE OF THE DATES FOR 2012:
Thursday 25th to Monday 29th October 2012.
If you are not on our mailing list, please send your address to
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Programme is usually out by mid-May.
Torbay Open Poetry Competition
HILARY DAVIES agrees to be the judge for the 2012 Torbay Open Competition.
HILARY DAVIES is the author of three collections of poetry with Enitharmon Press, is a Gregory Award winner and Hawthornden Fellow. Was Chairman of the Poetry Society 1992-3; won the TLS/Cheltenham Poetry Competition 1987 and was editor of ARGO magazine for 12 years. Reviews regularly for the literary press and has been a judge for the Bournemouth Literature Festival Poetry Competition. Thirty years a teacher of French and German; she has translated poetry from both languages.
VIEW DUNCAN FORBES' FINAL DECISIONS FOR 2011 ON THE COMPETITION PAGE.
Festival News
NOT YET ORGANISED for 2012
The 2012 Festival is still under discussion. The arranging of events takes thought and time and not until we send the final Festival ...
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Archives
2010 Festival
Readings by Tim Cunningham, Duncan Forbes, Shanta Acharya, Martyn Crucefix, Philip Gross, Wendy Cope. A coach trip to Royal Dart ...
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2011 Festival
New presences at this Festival included Susan Wicks, Sue Boyle, Lynne Hjelmgaard, Caroline Carver, Alec Taylor, Alan Jenkins, ...
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