Free Verse is an all-day bazaar, market, library, meeting place, performance venue, information resource and more. Celebrating the vitality of contemporary poetry in the UK, publishers and organisations both large and small, both experimental and traditional, display and sell their work direct to the public.

There will be more than 80 organisations and publishers stalls to browse, free readings throughout the day, poetry workshops and a gala evening performance, which will feature a rare chance to hear US-poet Chelsey Minnis.