Here is a list of poetry-related events & dates for the coming year. Please help me fill it in.
January
15th – T.S. Eliot Prize Readings at the Southbank Centre
16th – T.S. Eliot Prize Award Ceremony
17th – John Burnside at UEA
24th – Poetry Bites with Matt Merritt, at the Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham (via @JacquiRowe)
February
1st – Closing date of the Flarestack Poets Pamphlet Competition 2012
14th – Closing date of the Lumen/Camden Poetry Competition 2012
23rd – Austerities with Sam Riviere at Toynbee Cafe, London E1 (via @PennedintheM)
March
??? – Winners announced for the National Poetry Competition 2011
2nd – Closing date for the Christopher Tower Poetry Prize 2012
2nd – Closing date for the Cardiff International Poetry Prize 2012
2nd (to the 11th) – Bath Literary Festival 2012
14th (to the 18th) – StAnza 2012
20th – John Kinsella, Tess Gallagher, Jean Sprackland & Douglas Dunn reading at the Southbank Centre
20th – Sean O’Brien at UEA
27th – Poetry Bites with Caleb Klaces & David Hart, at the Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham (via @JacquiRowe)
27th – Paul Farley at UEA
April
April is the cr National Poetry Month
??? – the Text Festival
13th (to 15th) – Wenlock Poetry Festival
30th – Closing date of the RSPB & the Rialto’s Nature Poetry Competition 2012
May
7th (to the 9th) – Swindon Festival of Literature 2012
11th (to the 13th) –Poetry-next-the-Sea Festival 2012
22nd – Poetry Bites with Clare Best, at the Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham (via @JacquiRowe)
31st (to the 10th of June) – Hay Festival
31st – Closing date for the Bridport Prize 2012
June
12th – Poetry & Perfume: a collaboration between Claire Trevien & @OdetteToilette, at The Book Club, Shoreditch. (via @CTrevien)
29th (to the 8th of July) – Ledbury Poetry Festival 2012
July
August
September
October
4th – National Poetry Day
November
??? – the Aldeburgh Poetry Festival