About this Event
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Joe Wright | Image provided by promoter
Katrina Porteous | Image provided by promoter
Thursday 10th March at 6pm
Joint poetry reading with Joe Wright and Katrina Porteous
Joe Wright won the New Poets Prize 2026, and his pamphlet HOWK is forthcoming with Smith|Doorstop in March 2027. His work is featured in Magma, Ambient Receiver, The Little Review, Anthropocene, The Mays Anthology, and more. He was a 2022 Foyle Young Poet and a 2024 T.S. Eliot Prize Young Critic. He co-edited the DIRT Plantable Poetry Pamphlet Competition 2026, and is a member of The Writing Squad. He lives in the North Pennines, and studies at the University of Cambridge.
Katrina Porteous is inspired by the lives, language and ecology of the Northumberland Coast where she has lived for nearly 40 years. She has also written on scientific themes for Life Science Centre planetarium and NUSTEM at Northumbria University. In 2021 she received a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors. She has published four collections with Bloodaxe, most recently Rhizodont (2024), which explores extinction and survival at a local and global scale. It was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and won the Laurel Prize 2025.
A LIVE Lit & Phil Event | FREE
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Event venue & nearby stays
The Lit & Phil, 23 Westgate Road, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom
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