Pub Poetry is a creative collective on the Causeway Coast of Northern Ireland sharing and enjoying spoken word around a fire in a cosy pub , we moved to online during the pandemic and since 2022 have been hosting live events back in the pub.
Pub Poetry
Poetry helps us communicate what we want to say and talk about what moves us. It connects us beyond our everyday and beyond our difference and unites us in our quest to live fully, honouring the joy, the pain and the in-between. Our hope is that we can create a space to listen and bear witness to each others lives on a regular basis., we've been doing this online during the Pandemic and now making the journey to a our local pubs. We'll create this space wherever we have opportunity to however and if that means going back to Zoom or doing both live and virtual, then we'll give it all a go.
So if you write poetry, then please consider a submission to our next event or if you like being around poetry, then please join us at our next event to be part of our audience.
Our next event is on Friday 14th August 2026 at The Arcadia, Portrush (7:30pm - 9:00pm)
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Our Next Event!
Date: Friday 14th August 2026
Time: 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Venue: The Arcadia, Portrush, N.Ireland
Theme: Longing
Guest: Rónán Hasson
Join Us!
We meet on Friday 14th August at 7:30pm at The Arcadia, Portrush. Will you join us to read or to listen.
Longing
What do you long for, is it for the extraordinary or very ordinary, has longing been constant or fleeting, and how or where is longing birthed ?
Do you long for love, place, understanding or connection, for something to never end or is it your deep desire to go back and rewrite a chapter - for you or someone else ?
Have you written about that space between wanting and having or the moment hindsight reveals your longing was misplaced ?
If you’d like to read your own work on this theme, please submit one poem for consideration to info@pubpoetry.co.uk by Saturday 8th August 2026.
Guest Poet ✨
We are delighted to welcome Rónán Hasson as our guest poet to our Pub Poetry Summer Event on Friday 14th August at the Arcadia.
Rónán is a Béal Feirste based Poet and Gaeilgeoir hailing from Cill Ria, contae Dhoire. In his work, Rónán discusses reclaiming Irish language and culture, wrestling with identity navigating the murky waters of mental health, romance, philosophy and occasionally a bit of raging against the machine.
Spoken word / performance poetry is where Rónán truly shines, his stage presence is magnetic and he is well known for his hypnotic style of blending Irish & English together, when Rónán takes the stage you know you’re about to jump on a rollercoaster. Make sure to fasten your seatbelts.
See you there?
Free event - come to listen, come to read, everyone welcome !
What else have we been doing?
In Summer 2021 we ran our ‘Here is the World’ project where poets wrote about living through the pandemic and impact on their mental health and artists illustrated their words, culminating in a beautiful online exhibition in Sept 2021. You can find out more by clicking here.
Who’s invited?
Everyone! Come to listen, come to read, come to chat... You'll be made very welcome at the Pub of Poetry.
Cost?
Our regular events have been free and will continue to be unless we need to fund a special event as part of 'Pub Poetry Presents' this will be advertised separately.
"Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry."