Description
In 2025, this local Bradford-born, community poetry collective will celebrate a quarter of a century of sharing and exploring poetry together.
Named after their old meeting point, renowned public house, The New Beehive Inn, Bradford, the collective boasts a fascinating history. The stage will come alive with readings from poets and, together, we will reflect on the collective’s roots and embrace its future.
This evening will also be an opportunity to see fascinating photographs taken by local photographer, Phillip Jackson, capturing the essence of the collective.
Words have the power to inspire, provoke and unite people across generations. This evening promises to be a testament to shared creativity, camaraderie and the enduring magic of poetry.
About the Poet
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Beehive Poets
Beehive Poets was founded around the turn of the millennium and met at the New Beehive pub, Westgate, on most Mondays until the pandemic. It hosted some of the country’s leading poets, including Vernon Scannell, Daljit Nagra, Ian MacMillan, Helen Mort and Kim Moore, and nurtured Poems on the Underground initiator Gerard Benson, among many others. Since the closure of the New Beehive, two groups have taken up the mantle. One meets in Bradford’s Josef K Café on the third Monday of the month and hosts readers including Bill Broady and Martyn Crucefix, while the other has moved to Shipley’s Beehive pub and focusses on read-arounds, meeting on every second, fourth and fifth Thursday.
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