Beyond Text Innovative Poetry Festival

Where can poetry take you? What can a language do? Do we even need language? How to experiment with art? Beyond Text is an innovative poetry festival that will explore these questions through workshops, poetry readings, and performances.

Festival organisers, artBLAB, have invited a diverse range of poets and artists from Folkestone and beyond to help unpack these questions. Performers and artists are all experimental artists but their practice goes in different directions. What do they have in common? Their poetry and art are very now, very current, and very, very good.

Beyond Text takes place over three days filled with events for poetry aficionados and lovers of experimental art, but is also extremely accessible to people who don’t have much (or any!) experience with poetry (check our innovative poetry workshops for beginners). The Festival feasts on Folkestone’s artistic vibe but also brings some of London’s creative energy to the table. So come, engage, think, listen, and be entertained. 

Let’s shake things up!