Upcoming Events
Thu 9 Oct 2025
Soho Poly Poetry: Kennard, Baafi and Yip
Soho Poly, 16 Riding House Street London W1W 7DT
1-2pm
Sat 11 Oct 2025
Debuts Panel: Isabelle Baafi, Erica Hesketh, Dzifa Benson
Winchester Poetry Festival, The ARC, Winchester
1-2pm
Sun 19 Oct 2025
Workshop: The Age of Invention
The Writers’ Block, TR16 6RZ
10am-1pm
Sun 19 Oct 2025
Reading with Isabelle Baafi and Falmouth Poetry Group
The Writers’ Block, TR16 6RZ
2-3:30pm
Fri 24 Oct 2025
MUSHAIRA – Blue Pieta & Bhanu Kapil (with Kath Gifford) + Gabrielle Bates + Omar Sakr & Safdar Ahmed (virtual) + Hannah Copley + Isabelle Baafi
Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin St, London
7:30-11:30pm
Sat 25 Oct 2025
Next Verse: A Young Poets’ Summit
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XX
7-8:30pm
Sun 26 Oct 2025
Forward Prizes Ceremony 2025
Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XX
7pm
Mon 3 Nov–Mon 1 Dec 2025
Course: First & Last Lines Studio
[Online] The Poetry School
Fri 6 Nov
A Place for Poems
BVI Lit Fest, British Virgin Islands
11-11:55am
Sat 7 Nov
Light A Fire
BVI Lit Fest, British Virgin Islands
7-9pm
Sat 22 Nov
Holding On and Letting Go: Isabelle Baafi & Jessica Traynor
Push the Boat Out Festival, Edinburgh
11:30am-12:30pm
Sat 22 Nov
Finding meaning, seeking consolation
Push the Boat Out Festival, Edinburgh
4-5pm
Sun 23 Nov
Magma 93 Launch: The Liberation Issue
Push the Boat Out Festival, Edinburgh
12-1pm
Mon 5 Jan–Tue 27 Jan
Arvon Online Writing Month (evening): Writing the personal with Victoria Kennefick
Arvon Foundation (online)
Sun 18 Jan 2026
TS Eliot Prize Shortlist Readings
Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre, Belvedere Rd, London SE1 8XX
7-9pm
Past Events
Tue 2 Sep 2025
Workshop: Not to Scale
[Online] Verve Poetry Festival Zoom Workshop Series
7-9pm
Sun 21 Sep 2025
Forward Prize Launch
St George’s Hall, Bridge St, Bradford BD1 1JT
2:15-3:30pm
Thu 24 Jul 2025
Workshop: Poems for Survival
[Online] Tsaa with Roma
7-8:30pm
Tue 22 Jul 2025
Poetry Book Society Summer Showcase
[Online] Poetry Book Society
7-8pm
Thu 17 Jul 2025
Isabelle Baafi, Rachel Trousdale, and Callie Garnett
Unnameable Books, 615 Vanderbilt Ave. Brooklyn, NY
7-8pm
Tue 15 Jul 2025
Bryant Park Reading Series
The Reading Room, Bryant Park, W 42nd St, New York, NY
6-7pm
Mon 14 Jul 2025
Reading Series
Franklin Park, 766 Franklin Avenue, 618 St Johns Pl, Brooklyn, NY
8-10pm
Sat 5 Jul 2025
Ellen Cranitch & Isabelle Baafi
Ledbury Poetry Festival, Burgage Hall, Herefordshire
11:30-12:30pm
Wed 2 Jul 2025
Workshop: Repeat After Me
[Online] The Poetry Society
6:30-8:30pm
Fri 27 Jun 2025
Ledbury Poetry Critics: A Discussion Panel
Ledbury Poetry Festival, Burgage Hall, Herefordshire
6-7pm
Sat 31 May 2025
Nina Mingya Powles and Isabelle Baafi: poetry readings and in conversation
Launceston Poetry Festival, Launceston Town Hall, Western Rd, Launceston PL15 7AR
2:45-3:45pm
Thu 8 May 2025
Out-Spoken: May
Purcell Room at Queen Elizabeth Hall, Southbank Centre
7:45pm
Tue 22 Apr 2025
Chaotic Good Online Launch
[Online]
6-7pm
Sat 12 Apr 2025
Celebrating Maximum Summer and Chaotic Good
Jeannie Avent Gallery, 14 North Cross Rd, London SE22 9EU
6pm
Wed 9 Apr 2025
Chaotic Good Launch
London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place, London WC1A 2JL
7pm
Wed 26 Feb 2025
Faber Poetry Showcase 2025
The Bindery, 51 Hatton Garden, EC1N 8HN
7pm
Wed 26 Jun 2024
Workshop: Transformations
Fusion Arts, Oxford
5-7pm
Fri 9 Sep 2022
Across Borders – Poems from the Commonwealth
Birmingham Hippodrome
1:30pp
Fri 9 Sep 2022
The Essay: Isabelle Baafi, Alvin Pang and Anil Pradhan
Birmingham Hippodrome
3:30pm