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Sometimes I love water more than people I love fat raindrops pocking the pavements like falling gooseberries some days I can’t stop saying petrichor its three syllables so mysteriously right surely Dior was thinking of sunlight on the Seine as he rippled metres of...

8th April 2024 Isobel Dixon and Laura McKee

This event will take place on Zoom. It will begin at 7.30pm. Please book tickets and an open mic slot through the Eventbrite link which will appear on our Home Page around ten days before the date. Isobel Dixon grew up in South Africa, where her debut, Weather Eye,...

10th July 2023 Jane Burn and Rachael Clyne

This event will begin at 7.30pm, it will take place on Zoom. Please book tickets and an Open Mic slot through the Eventbrite link which will appear on our Home Page ten days before the date. Jane Burn is a working class, pansexual, autistic person, poet, artist,...

Winners of the 2018 Café Writers Open Poetry Competition

We are delighted to announce the winners of the 2018 Café Writers Open Poetry Competition, judged by Daljit Nagra. Daljit writes: The Café Writers Competition, from its title implies a local manner, yet the entries were truly international. I loved judging this...

2017 Open Poetry Competition Winners

The Winner We are delighted to announce the Winner of the 2017 Cafe Writers Open Poetry Competition, judged by Liz Berry,  is Tammy Armstrong with her poem Road Salt Dome.   Road Salt Dome after Paul Farley Off the highway, out of the way like ant hills, or bee...

2016 open poetry winners

We are delighted to announce the Cafe Writers Poetry Competition Winners 2016 Our judge Andrew McMillan has done sterling work and we have the results for the Café Writers Poetry Competition. Judge’s report and winning poems to follow soon! There were very close...