Voice and Verse

Voice and Verse

Poets’ Corner is a literary pilgrimage like no other. Join us this season as we celebrate the power of words and stories penned by historic and emerging poets. Discover new ways of seeing the world through their captivating verses.

Upcoming events

Four Forty Theatre: A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night

Four Forty Theatre: A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night

29th & 30th August 2024

7.00pm - 9.00pm
Dean's Yard
£12 - £17

A crib scene in front of the Quire screen in the Abbey's Nave

Poet Laureates

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Poets of Poets' Corner

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer

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Edmund Spenser

Edmund Spenser

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Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson

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John Milton

John Milton

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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The Brontës

The Brontës

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The Brownings

The Brownings

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Laurence Binyon

Laurence Binyon

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Worship and music

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Poetry for young people

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A crib scene in front of the Quire screen in the Abbey's Nave

Family film

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Shop

Shop

From the The Canterbury Tales to Shakespeare's sonnets to poems of World War One, continue pursuing poetry, and other forms of literature, by checking out books in the Abbey’s shop.

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