Welcome to the home of spoken word in Shipley

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Get involved

Read the winning poems online!

25 winning poems from our Wandering Words competition were on display in shop windows around Saltaire & Shipley throughout July for Bradford 2025. You can now read them online.

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Performers and listeners welcome

Our pay-as-you-feel events on the last Wednesday of the month at The Triangle pair invited guest readers with an open mic to bring you the best emerging writers in the North.

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Join our bi-monthly poetry book club

Our poetry reading group meets every other month, usually on the third Wednesday, at The Triangle, to chat about a new pamphlet, anthology or collection recommended by one of our members.