Well Versed is part of StAnza Poetry Festival. It is an exciting programme of online poetry discussions with headline festival poets and new voices, hosted in partnership with Open Book. Each session includes a reading and discussion before a Q&A with the live online audience.

For those unable to take part live, recordings of the sessions will be uploaded and available to watch for the duration of the year on our YouTube channel.

We are delighted to be working with Open Book again as partners for Well Versed 2025. Open Book will be organising events surrounding the Well Versed programme, including relaxed and informal shared reading sessions and creative writing workshops. Find out more about these sessions here.

Throughout the series we’ll be welcoming:

Niall Campbell – 12.00 – 1.00pm – 20th August
Joelle Taylor – 12.00 – 1.00pm – 17th September
Imtiaz Dharker – 12.00 – 1.00pm – 15th October
Karen McCarthy Woolf – 12.00 – 1.00pm – 19th November

We’ll be announcing more sessions with more fantastic poets in the coming months. You can sign up for these sessions here.