Recorded at the Music in Mind Festival, in Whitehead Library, Antrim, Poetry NI hosted showcase of poetry and spoken word back in late August.

The festival was to help raise funds for Lighthouse, the suicide awareness and prevention charity. Our featured poets were Colin Dardis, Peter Adair, Rae O'Dowd, Darren Reihill, Stephen Knox, Geraldine O'Kane and Anthony Ferguson.

Poetry NI and University of Atypical present an array of Belfast-based poets for a live showcase reading at this year's Bounce! Festival.

Join us on Friday 6th September, 3.30pm, at the Black Box, Belfast for an afternoon of powerful words, dazzling verse and stimulating insight from a great range of established names, slam winners and exciting new voices. This array of literary talent features:

Peter Adair
Colin Dardis
Imogen Darling
Elizabeth McGeown
Geraldine O’Kane
Rachel Spence
Patrick Taggart
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Each of the poets are disabled, writing about their condition and experience of having a disability, in a wide range of voices and approaches. This is a secular and inclusive event - non-disabled audiences are welcome.

Book tickets via Eventbrite.

Poetry NI is celebrating Poetry Day Ireland 2019 with new writing, with the release of a new issue of Panning For Poems, and a new e-pamphlet from Adrian Fox.

Available for free download, 'The Disabled Dimension', was written in the aftermath of a severe stroke, causing him to lose almost his entire memory, Fox's writing give a unique insight into his fight back to life, and back to poetry. Balanced finely between depression and resilience, Fox portrays a world where at once, everything can be closed off, or entirely possible. The Disabled Dimension is a charter of over ten years, of a poet regaining his memory, and rediscovering a power through poems.

Submissions are also open for FourXFour, as well as Panning For Poems, so what better way to amrk Poetry Day then to send us some of your own poems!