Launceston Poetry Festival 2025

Between 30th May and 1st June this year Guillemot Press was invited to help put together a list of extraordinary poets, and I think it’s safe to say we rose to the challenge. With a line-up that featured David Harsent and Ella Frears, Nina Mingya Powles and Isabelle Baafi, Fiona Benson and Kayo Chingonyi, Pascale Petit and Katrina Naomi, Stephen Emmerson and Daljit Nagra, as well as folk musician Jackie Oates and comedian Frank Skinner, and loads of other events over the weekend, the inaugural Launceston Poetry Festival was real fun and a great success. Congratulations and thanks to everyone involved - Nikky Nuttall, David Devanny, Patrick Gale, Annie Friedlein, Jaimie and Clemo Books, all the wonderful volunteers and trustees, participants and audiences. This was the Launceston Poetry Festival…