We’re excited that this year’s festival will have a full three days of events throughout Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with an evening festival taster event on Thursday 6th November. We’re also very excited to be in the newly and impressively refurbished Jubilee Hall.

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This upcoming Sunday (!) - it would be great to see folk there to toast the new issue: southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/poetr…

Excited about Deaf poets creating in British Sign Language entering the Forward Prizes for Poetry category for Best Single Poem - Performed. Thanks to Forward Prizes & The Limping Chicken | Deaf Culture, News and Arts shorturl.at/SH7TQ

This year’s festival theme is: ‘The Book and Beyond’. We will be considering all things bookish: offering events around the materiality of paper and print, but also looking beyond at performance off the page, and the future of poetry in the age of technology. Watch this space…

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We are delighted to announce the first of our 2025 festival readers. Taking the stage for our gala reading on Saturday night will be the incredible Richard Scott. His latest collection, That Broke into Shining Crystals, is a Poetry Book Society Choice Faber Books

We are delighted to announce Clare Pollard as the second of our 2025 festival readers, taking the stage for our gala reading on Saturday night. Clare’s eagerly-awaited sixth collection, Lives of the Female Poets, is due from Bloodaxe, probing the idea of the ‘Poetess’ over time.

We’re delighted to announce that Fiona Benson will be reading as part of our Sunday afternoon final event. In her thrilling new fourth collection, Midden Witch, she enters the world of familiars, fables and hedge-magic and focuses on superstition, fear & witchcraft. 6-9 Nov.

We’re delighted to announce that Roger Robinson will be reading as part of our Sunday afternoon final event. A Portable Paradise reveals his incredible capacity to tell involving stories and capture the essence of a character in a few words, to move our emotions with such force.

We’re excited to be holding poetry events in the newly refurbished Jubilee Hall this year, plus smaller venues around the beautiful Suffolk coastal town and close to the beach. Check out the official website for Aldeburgh town, coast and countryside at aldeburghsuffolk.com

We’re delighted to announce that Hannah Silva will be performing on the Friday evening at Poetry in Aldeburgh 2025 (6-9 November). Hannah is a formidable writer and performer confronting big ideas through formal innovation and a very playful approach to language and technology.

We’re delighted to announce that J. R. Carpenter J. R. Carpenter will be performing as part of our Friday night ‘Beyond the Book’ event. A Canadian born UK-based artist, writer, performer & researcher working across performance, print, and digital media, she also lectures at Leeds.

We are pleased to announce that Ian Patterson will give the Robin Boyd Memorial lecture this year on Sunday morning. In his lecture ‘Reading Time and Writing Time’ Ian will talk about landmark modernist poems and novels, and some more recent ones, though the optic of time.

We’re delighted to announce that Patience Agbabi will be performing on Sunday at this year’s Poetry in Aldeburgh. Her work is musical in every sense, attuned as much to the punning & political immediacy of the rhythms of rap & dub, as it is to the sonnet, sestina and rime royale.

All set for a sunny weekend in Aldeburgh! Check out how this year’s festival is shaping up at poetryinaldeburgh.org

‘Mining Lines’ workshop on 13th July on Zoom! With Tamar Yoseloff and Jacqueline Saphra. This workshop is the first of 3 which are on offer to poets who take up our new Poetry in Aldeburgh Friends scheme: poetryinaldeburgh.org/friends-scheme… around our festival theme, The Book and Beyond.

3 workshops for festival friends: 13 July - ‘Missing Lines’ Jacqueline Saphra/Tamar Yoseloff; 20 July - ‘The Poem of the Book’ Susannah Hart/Paul Stephenson; 27 July - ‘The Longer Take: on writing the book length poem’ Rishi Dastidar/Fiona Moore. Details: poetryinaldeburgh.org

Afternoon Tea & Poetry with Blake Morrison, Southwold Library, IP18 6LD, Sunday 14th September 2025 at 3pm. Part of Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival 2025 poetryinaldeburgh.org With funding from Maria Bjornson Memorial. Tickets from Library 01502 442817 or ticketsource.co.uk/southwoldlibra…

We’re delighted to learn that JR Carpenter, who is reading at this year’s festival, is a finalist in this year’s Laurel Prize with her recent Shearsman collection ‘Measures of Weather’. JR Carpenter is an artist, writer, researcher, and lecturer at the University of Leeds.