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 22 May 2026 at The Cinema, Kiwi's Brew Bar, Main Street, Portrush (7:30pm - 9:00pm)
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"I find poetry and writing helps me - to say who I am, how the world impacts me and how to name the pathways through"
Yvonne Boyle
Our Next Event!
Date: Friday 22 May 2026
Time: 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Venue: The Cinema, Kiwis Brew Bar, 49 Main St, Portrush, N.Ireland
Theme: Endure
Guest: Yvonne Boyle
Join Us!
We meet on Friday 22nd May at 7:30pm in Kiwis Brew Bar, 47 Main St, Portrush, our venue this time will be Kiwi's Cinema. Will you join us to read or to listen.
Guest Poet
We're really delighted that Yvonne Boyle will join us as spotlight poet, we so look forward to hearing her collection of prizewinning poetry!
Our theme is for this event is 'endure', Yvonne shares her thoughts on this below.
Whether landscape and nature, kindness and family, dancing and humour, what helps us navigate our life journeys in this place and in these unsettling times?
Have you penned your thoughts whilst navigating hardship and struggles or later when you resurfaced, altered, shaped differently? Can writing foster resilience?
We would be delighted to welcome a further 6-8 poets to read on our theme - will you join us ?
Submissions to read are open to anyone (brand new or experienced) who would like to read their poetry relating to our theme, just get in touch by sending your poem to info@pubpoetry.co.uk before Saturday 16th May.
To come along....
Just come along on the night at 7:30pm, we'll be at The Cinema, Kiwis Brew Bar, Portrush (49-51 Main Street), buy your favourite tipple and enjoy a gorgeous evening of truth and hope and connection about what matters.
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."