@ptbopoetry.bsky.socialCome aboard! We’re looking for volunteers to join the Push the Boat Out 2026 crew this November 📣
Meet artists and audiences, get behind the scenes and help us bring this year’s festival to life!
🚢 Applications are open now: pushtheboatout.org/festival-volunteers/
@eleanorl.bsky.socialGet ready for Push the Boat Out, Edinburgh’s great poetry festival!
We’re really looking forward to seeing you at our FREE WORKSHOP:
'EDITING YOUR OWN WORK'
From Helena Nelson and me
Thursday 12 November at 1.45pm
@ptbopoetry.bsky.socialRock the Boat returns to the Wee Red Bar next Thursday, with @joshcakemusic.bsky.social as this months featured artist - a chance to see Josh perform ahead of #PTBOFestival2026 where he'll join Loud Poets Slam in a celebration of some of the best spoken word coming out of Scotland.
@ptbopoetry.bsky.social75 events. 120+ artists. Four days.
There’s much more waiting to be discovered – from poetry as protest and social justice to workshops, new writers, experimental performance, music, conversations and collaborations.
#PTBOFestival2026 - Full programme ON SALE NOW!
https://ow.ly/BE9I50ZSuPK
The List
@ptbopoetry.bsky.socialClosing the festival, we’re thrilled to share a new collaboration from musician Aurora Engine and poets JL Williams, Dean Atta and Kirsty Logan. This new work, specially commissioned for #PTBOFestival2026, promises to be haunting and holding, magical and meaningful.
@ptbopoetry.bsky.socialT.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet Joelle Taylor brings Maryville to #PTBOFestival2026 for the Scottish Premiere of its staged reading.
A powerful staged reading tracing four butch lives through five decades of underground queer culture, community and resistance.
🎟️ Book now: https://ow.ly/oIqQ50ZQjOh
@ptbopoetry.bsky.socialWant to be part of Push the Boat Out 2026? 📣
We’re looking for volunteers to join our festival crew this November, applications are now open, Come aboard!
👉 Find out more and apply: pushtheboatout.org/festival-volunteers/
#PTBOFestival2026
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@ptbopoetry.bsky.socialPoetry, comedy, stories, songs – and around 1,000 poems squeezed into one hour.
Henry Normal comes to #PTBOFestival2026 with a brilliantly offbeat show celebrating his fourth collected poems anthology.
🎟️ Book now: https://pushtheboatout.org/events/an-evening-with-henry-normal/
@ptbopoetry.bsky.socialJoin us in The Space Between – where words, music and performance meet, in Opening Night Cabaret, with Luke Wright on 12 November. Enjoy poems from EmmaClaire Brightlyn, Nick Makoha, as well as music from the rapper RamZee.
🎟️ Tickets on sale now
https://ow.ly/4QU250ZOrB0
#PTBOFestival2026
@ptbopoetry.bsky.socialOn #ReadABookDay we celebrate Jackie Kay!
Join the award-winning poet and former Scots Makar aboard Fingal next month, for an intimate evening of readings and stories celebrating her new Selected Poems.
Fizz on arrival included! 🥂
