Overview

This event is a presentation of our commissions and our competition winners. In partnership with Newcastle City Council, we commissioned a Poet in Residence at Grainger Market to engage with vendors, market stalls and customers and create an original work based on their experience. This will be their opportunity to share their findings and new work.  

Jake Morris-Campbell was also commissioned to lead the ‘South Shields Poetry Walk’. Jake guided participants to locations in South Shields that inspired poems in his 2021 book, Corrigenda for Costafine Town, which was  Highly Commended in the 2022 Forward Prizes and longlisted for the 2022 RSL Ondaatje Prize. Jake’s first book of prose, Between the Salt and the Ash, is being published by Manchester University Press in early 2025. He is Teaching Fellow in Creative Writing at Liverpool John Moores University.  

This event will also present the winner of The Chancellor’s Poetry Prize. Newcastle University students were to submit poems that explore the ideas of ‘Place’. The entries are judged by the Chancellor Imtiaz Dharker and Neil Astley, Editor and Managing Director of Bloodaxe Books Ltd. 

This event is supported by Newcastle City Council and Central Creative Arts Team and Newcastle University.