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If you would like to find out more about “Poetry Off the Page”, please subscribe to our mailing list. You will receive a quarterly newsletter with information about upcoming publications, talks, conferences and more:

September 14, 2022

Newsletter #3

Our third newsletter has arrived! Read it here.

May 30, 2022

GAIN Poetry Slam

Just in time for Pride Month, Poetry Off the Page proudly announces the GAIN Poetry Slam, which we are co-organising in Vienna – it takes place on 29th June at 6 o’clock on the University of Vienna Campus Altes AKH. There will also be a slam workshop on 13 June to prepare aspiring poets for the event.

April 25, 2022

Taking the Mic: Call for Papers

The Call for Papers for our first project conference “Taking the Mic: Black British Spoken Word Poetry Since 1965” has been published!

Deadline for abstracts: 15 June

April 11, 2022

Newsletter #2

Our second quartlery newsletter is now available here:

January 10, 2022

Newsletter #1

Our inaugural quarterly newsletter is now available here:

December 9, 2021

PoP Introduction Video

To find out more about Poetry Off the Page and its individual subprojects, you can now watch this little video we produced (many thanks to Hanna Möller and Benjamin Furtlehner of the University of Vienna’s PR Team!):

November 2, 2021

Open Letter to Goldsmiths University of London

The PoP team has written a letter in support of Goldsmiths’ Department of English & Creative Writing, and the future of literary studies and the Arts and Humanities at Goldsmiths University of London, after the college announced compulsory redundancies, targeting academics in English and History as well as administrative staff.