Join poet and librarian Lorraine Mariner for an evening in celebration of books and libraries in poetry, as part of the Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival 2025! Lorraine is the editor of ‘Ten Poems About Libraries’ for Candlestick Press and she’ll share some of her favourite poems about libraries as well as some of her own poems on libraries, books and writing. There will also be some writing exercises to inspire you to write your own poem about a treasured library or beloved book.

Booking is required. This event is free to attend but spaces are limited. Book your place online on TicketSource →

As Victorian poet Louise Chandler Moulton mused in her poem ‘In A Library’:
THE living ofttimes vex us—
The wise old dead are best—
When Life’s vain games perplex us
‘T is here we turn for rest.

Lorraine Mariner lives in London where she works at the National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre. She has published two collections with Picador, ‘Furniture’ (2009) and ‘There Will Be No More Nonsense’ (2014), and has twice been shortlisted in the Forward Prizes, for Best Poem and Best First Collection, and for the Seamus Heaney Centre Poetry Prize. She has edited several titles for Candlestick Press as part of their Ten Poems About series including Friendship, Libraries, Love and Tea.

This event is part of the Poetry in Aldeburgh Festival.