VERVE Poetry Festival | Feb 16-20 2022

Exciting News!

We’re so excited to announce that from February 2020, Verve will be hosted by the Birmingham Hippodrome in their swanky Patrick Studio!

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Competition Winners Announced

Theme: Diversity • Judge: Andrew McMillan

01/07/2019 – 31/08/2019

Saboteur Awards 2019: Best Literary Festival!

VERVE Poetry Festival

16-20 Feb 2022

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A massive THANK-YOU to everyone who read, performed, listened, wrote, ate, drank, shared, laughed, cried and got lost on their way to the box office at #VERVE2020! 💖 Another brilliant year!

We are currently planning and programming next year’s festival which will be as wonderful and eclectic as ever! Dates are tentatively set for 16-20 Feb 2022 (fingers crossed) and we will be back in our wonderful new venue – Birmingham Hippodrome’s Patrick Studio!