Alan Gillis, Hannah Lowe, Bill Herbert and Jake Campbell read at Newcastle University’s Culture Lab for the Next Generation Poets Tour
Melissa Lee-Houghton and Sam Willetts are joined by local poet Daisy Behagg for the Bristol leg of the Next Generation Poets Tour
Daljit Nagra, Pascale Petit, Jane Yeh and Alex MacDonald descend on Keats House on the Next Generation Poets Tour.
Three Next Generation Poets, Sean Borodale, Annie Freud and Emma Jones read with Rosemary Brook-Hart in Winchester
Next Generation Poets 2014 Tour takes in Cambridge featuring performances from Emma Jones, Kei Miller, Pauline Stainer and Sarah Howe.
The Next Generation Poets 2014 tour visited Oxford on 11 November with performances from Luke Kennard, Jane Yeh, Susan Wicks and Rachel Piercey.
Next Generation Poets 2014, Helen Mort and Kei Miller, experience success in UK Poetry Prizes.
To finish an action-packed week, the tour stopped at Sheffield’s Off the Shelf Festival on 29th October with performances from Rebecca Goss, Mark Waldron, Ian Duhig & Ben Wilkinson.
On 28th October the tour visited the Liverpool Centre for New & International Writing, with readings from Melissa Lee-Houghton, Luke Kennard, Deryn Rees-Jones & Seán Hewitt.
The tour continued at Oldham Library on 27th October with readings from Melissa Lee-Houghton, Daljit Nagra, Amanda Dalton and Adam Lowe.
The second Next Generation Poets 2014 Tour event stopped in at Ilkley Festival of Literature on 9 October, featuring readings from Tara Bergin, Adam Foulds, Ian Duhig and Paul Adrian.
Daljit Nagra takes his latest collection, The Ramayana: A Retelling, on an explosive live tour.
Next Generation Poet, Kei Miller, wins the 2014 Forward Prize for Best Collection for The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion (Carcanet).
The Next Generation Poets 2014 Tour kicked off at Glasgow’s Mitchell Library on the eve of National Poetry Day, and featured readings from Jen Hadfield, Sam Willetts, Don Paterson, and Glaswegian poet, McGuire.
A stellar line-up of judges has been announced for this year’s Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, including Next Generation Poet Kei Miller.
Next Generation Poet, Helen Mort, shortlisted for the 2014 Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize.
Ian McMillan, Chair of the Judges for Next Generation Poets 2014, introduces the list and gives his thoughts on poetry in the 21st century.
Twenty years on, John Burnside talks about his experience of being on the 1994 New Generation list.
Judge Clare Pollard was a teenager when the New Generation list was announced in 1994. Here, she tells us how it inspired her to a life of writing.
