Voice and Verse
Poets’ Corner is a literary pilgrimage like no other. Join us this season as we celebrate the power of words and stories penned by historic and emerging poets. Discover new ways of seeing the world through their captivating verses.
Upcoming events
The Poetics of Life: Life as Poetry
Wednesday, 18th September 2024
6.30pm - 7.45pm
The Abbey
Free (booking required)
Voice and Verse Bookshelf
1st October - 30th November 2024
9.30am - 3.30pm
Cloister entrance
Included in the prices of admission
Voice and Verse 15-Minute Talk: Poets' Corner - October
8th - 29th October 2024
Times vary
Poets' Corner
Included in the price of admission
Voice and Verse Tour: Beyond Poets’ Corner
12th October - 23rd November 2024
Times vary
The Abbey
£10
Voice and Verse Lunchtime Concert
Wednesday, 23rd October 2024
1.00pm - 1.45pm
St Margaret's Church
£5 - £10
Voice and Verse Family Day: Get Creative!
Friday, 1st November 2024
10:00 - 12:00
St Margaret's Church
Booking opening soon
Voice and Verse Workshop: Book Binding
Saturday, 2nd November 2024
10.00am - 5.30pm
Education Centre
£70
Voice and Verse 15-Minute Talk: Poets' Corner - November
5th - 26th November 2024
Times vary
Poets' Corner
Booking opening soon
Voice and Verse Song Recital: Journeying
Thursday, 7th November 2024
7.30pm - 9.00pm
Poets' Corner
£20
Voice and Verse Readings: Remembrance
Thursday, 7th November 2024
1.00pm - 3.15pm
The Nave
Booking opening soon
Lunchtime Talk: First World War Poets
Wednesday, 13th November 2024
1.00pm - 1.50pm
St Margaret's Church
£5
Voice and Verse Song Recital: Remembrance
Thursday, 14th November 2024
7.30pm - 9.00pm
Poets' Corner
£20
Voice and Verse Panel: Poets' Corners Across the Pond
Thursday, 14th November 2024
18:30 - 19:30
Online
Booking opening soon
Voice and Verse Workshop: Strokes of Poetry
Saturday, 23rd November 2024
1.30pm - 4.00pm
Cheyneygates
£25
Poets of Poets’ Corner
Go beyond their famous words to find out more about the lives and legacies of eight poets, across 700 years of English poetry, before hearing one of those poems being performed in this historic building. Each week in September and October, a new poet's video will be released.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Play videoEdmund Spenser
Coming soon
Ben Jonson
Coming soon
John Milton
Coming soon
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Coming soon
The Brownings
Coming soon
The Brontës
Coming soon
Laurence Binyon
Coming soon
Shop
From the The Canterbury Tales to Shakespeare's sonnets to poems of World War One, continue pursuing poetry, and other forms of literature, by checking out the books in the Abbey shop.
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