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2026 Festival ‘Infinite Worlds’ 5th to 8th November. Come join us under the big skies of Aldeburgh Join us!

Our 2022 festival runs from Friday 4th November until Sunday 6th November.

25/04/2026

Introducing our Friends scheme for 2026!

If you choose to become a Friend, you will be able to book free entry to one of our 3 online workshops, which will be running between May and September. These workshops feature poets from the Poetry in Aldeburgh team and are exclusive to Friends.

You will also receive priority booking when the programme is announced in early summer, and the opportunity to book 4 workshops (2 before general booking is open, and another 2 workshops after general booking starts) – we normally cap at 2 workshops per person. Our workshops are extremely popular, so this gives you an extraordinary chance to book early with your favourite poets.

As always, we will reward you by listing your name in the programme and on the website. The cost of becoming a Friend is only £60, which we hope you think is wonderful value for what you receive. We couldn’t run the festival without your support. 🩵 🌊

To become a Friend or find out more, please visit this our website: https://www.poetryinaldeburgh.org/friends-scheme-2026

20/04/2026

Meet Vanessa, a wonderful member of our committee! Whether you've been before or it's your first time, come along. Tickets will be released in the summer for our festival which is happening 5-8th November. See you there! 💙

19/04/2026

We are thrilled to announce that Yomi Ṣode will be joining us for this year's festival, as our Sunday headliner! ❤️‍🔥😮‍💨🫰

Yomi Ṣode is an award-winning Nigerian-British writer and poet, recipient of the 2019 Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship and shortlisted for the Brunel International African Poetry Prize (2021), Arts Foundation Awards (2024), and Malorie Blackman Impact Award (2025). His acclaimed one-man show COAT toured nationally, and his play and breathe… premiered at the Almeida Theatre to rave reviews, winning four Black British Theatre Awards. His libretto Remnants premiered on BBC Radio 3 with Chineke! Orchestra. Founder of BoxedIn and 12 in 12, his poetry collection Manorism was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize, and the Rathbone Folio Prize. His debut novel, The Interpreter will be published by Viking.

Save the date & grab your tickets this summer for our November festival. Stay tuned on our socials and sign up to our mailing list to receive more news! 💙☀️ 🩵 🌊

14/04/2026

Meet the brilliant Paul, member of our programming committee!

Whether you've been to the festival or it's your first time, come along! Tickets will be released in early summer for our festival which is happening 5-8th November. See you there! 💙

10/04/2026

We are back for more poetry on Tuesday 21st April at the wonderful Socialbar💙

We are delighted to have Eliza O'Toole as our guest speaker this month. Eliza O'Toole’s poems have appeared in Shearsman magazine, The Rialto, Tears in the Fence, Poetry Review, Wet Grain and the Fenland Poetry Journal. She has published The Dropping of Petals (Muscaliet Press, 2021), A Cranic of Ordinaries (Shearsman, 2024), Buying the Farm, a georgics of sorts (Shearsman, 2025) and her chapbook, Red Fifty Five: The Unpinning of Moths (Muscaliet Press, 2025). She was shortlisted for the Michael Marks Environmental Poet of the Year 2023/24 and she was nominated for the Laurel Prize in 2025. Her book Buying the Farm was the winner of the East Anglia poetry book of the year 2025. A copy of her chapbook can be found in the permanent moth collection at Shandy Hall (The Laurence Stern Trust). She collaborates with both Suffolk Wildlife Trust and Essex Wildlife Trust seeking to harness the emotional and literary landscapes of poetry for the preservation of East Anglia’s wild and natural landscapes.

We can’t wait to hear Eliza read. Tickets are £5 on the door. See you then! 💙

09/04/2026

We had such a brilliant time at last month's SocialBar reading! 🩵
With thanks to Elisabeth Sennitt Clough for being a brilliant guest reader.
Stay tuned for details for our next one!

08/04/2026

Meet the wonderful Rishi Dastidar, member of our programming committee, who is passionate about creating a great festival lineup. Whether you're coming from London or further afield, escape to our festival by the sea.

Tickets will be released soon for our festival which is happening 5-8th November, this year. Save the date and see you there! 💙🌊

22/03/2026

Can you BELIEVE we have headlining alongside Malika Booker on Saturday night!? ❤️‍🔥😮‍💨🫰

In Joelle Taylor’s most recent collection, Maryville, the eponymous butch bar of the title becomes an epicentre for the underground histories of q***r London. Joelle has said of the book that it’s “a vehicle for examining community, q***r class politics, love, female masculinity, and long-term friendship – set against the background of the rise of the Gay Liberation Front, the women’s movement, black civil rights, and the squatting revolution. I wanted to conjure worlds, make new myths. It’s a ghost story and what a ghost story really is, is a love story.” And the writer Neil Bartlett has called Maryville “sexy, fearless – and ravishingly beautiful.”

We can’t wait to see Joelle in November! Stay tuned on our socials and sign up to our mailing list to receive more news! 💙☀️

Photo credit: Robin Christian 📸

19/03/2026

We are beyond thrilled to have the incredible .booker as one of our Saturday Gala headliners! 😮‍💨🫰❤️‍🔥

Malika Booker has said of her work: “most of my writing to date seems to explore what we as Caribbean people inherit, and our legacy – what we pass on.” Her Forward-Prize winning poems ‘Libation’ and ‘The Little Miracles’ both touch on that heritage, what is honoured and remembered from our ancestors, the worlds of Bible and community. The Poetry Archive calls her “a master of storytelling” and goes on to say “[Booker] is supremely skilled in drawing together her passion for Caribbean culture, her revealing insight into humanity, and her theatrical vision into poetry which both enthrals and provokes.”

We are thrilled to see her at this year’s festival! 💙🩵💛

12/03/2026

Meet Jacqueline Saphra, the head of the Programming committee who is deeply passionate about making a great festival 💙

07/03/2026

Here is the fantastic Robert, managing all things marketing on the committee! From website management to the newsletter, he’s got it covered 💙

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