Prizes: 1st £1000, 2nd £500, 3rd £250, & 20 prizes of £20 each plus a Spring 2010 Coffee-House Poetry season ticket and a prizewinners' Coffee-House Poetry reading with Maura Dooley & Jamie McKendrick on Monday 30th November 2009 for all winning poets Judges: Maura Dooley & Jamie McKendrick (Both judges will read all poems). Submission deadline extended by 1 week: All entries to be postmarked by Friday 16th October 2009

Venue: National & International, by e-mail and post...

Tickets: entry fee: see detia

Contact: Anne-Marie Fyfe (Organiser)
Telephone: 020-8354 0660
Email: coffpoetry@aol.com
Website: www.coffeehousepoetry.org

Live show of poetry and chat from 20.00 to 22.00 hrs. Introduced by poet Dave Reeves, guests include Matt Nunn and Jane Commane from Nine Arches Press, Roy Mcfarlane from Talking Brothers and poetry and music from cd. Plus details of events in Birmingham Book Festival.

Venue: Internet

Tickets: Free

Email: radio.wildfire@googlemail.com
Website: www.radiowildfire.com

Listen to a lame-assed bourgeois cunt, and then shoot them

Venue: Everywhere

Tickets: Free

Contact: Tom Chivers

There's far too much poetry, all of it written by privileged, self obsessed little turds. Stop it.

Venue: Everywhere

Tickets: Paid in blood

Contact: Tom Chivers

On National Poetry Day hundreds of people, no matter where they are or what they are doing, will be getting up to say the same poem at the same time and you can join us! It does not matter if you are a shop steward, a business owner or even a railway station gaurd, wherever you are on that day, you can become a poet! The Theme for National Poetry Day this year is "Heroes and Heroines" and The Word have collectively produced a poem that can be read aloud by all that enter this event. If you would like to create your own poem for this event there will be plenty of chances to do so and along with the main event we will also be highlighting the best poems from this site. In order for you to become involved in this event we have set up a website, please look up us up, join or register yourself, tell us about you, your group or collective. You can put pictures on this site, web-links and other references to your work. Feel free to introduce yourself as much as possible. Tell us where you expect to be or what kind of things you will be doing on the day of the event. When it comes closer to the time of the event you can set up your performance as a seperate event on this page and invite friends to join you! Whatever you do - cause a stir in the name of unity through poetry! The time of the collective performance and the poem we will have to read will be released on the below website closer to the time - Remember though, it doesn't matter where you will be on this day, as long as everyone does the same poem at the same time! So, come on! Get yourself registered on this site, start writing on the theme of Heros and Heroines and tell us about yourselves. Feel free to post any video footage of your own poems on the site but make sure they continue the theme of National Poetry Day. We will be looking at the best entries of video footage and will include them in a short piece of footage that will be produced in celebration of ONE VOICE FOR NATIONAL POETRY DAY. For more information or to ask specific questions, please contact The Word team on: thewordfestival@btinternet.com

Venue: Any Street, Any place, Anywhere?

Contact: Alex Vellis or Lorraine Lougher
Telephone: 01227 471887 or 07845764622
Email: thewordfestival@btinternet.com
Website: http://www.onevoiceattheword.ning.com

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud... and other poems you half-remember from school will be published to celebrate National Poetry Day on 8th October 2009.

Venue: All good bookshops

Tickets: £9.99

Contact: Ana Sampson
Telephone: 020 7819 5911
Email: ana.sampson@mombooks.com
Website: http://www.mombooks.com/html/book.php?book=1843173948

Virgin Books are publishing a wonderful collection of Spike's children's poems called The Magical World of Milligan, it is a sparkly new compendium that gathers together a grand selection of Milligan favourites, including such delightful poems and stories as 'On the Ning Nang Nong', 'The Terrible Monster Jelly' and lots of Twits. Full colour and complete with Milligan's drawings and sketches, The Magical World also includes poems from Silly Verse for Kids to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of its publication in 1959. The book is edited by Norma Farnes, Spike's lifelong manager and agent who also wrote the book Spike: An Intimate Memoir.

Venue: London

Contact: Jessica Axe
Telephone: 02078408372
Email: jaxe@virgin-books.co.uk