About us
Apples and Snakes is England's leading organisation for performance poetry and spoken word.
- We run over 90 performance poetry events every year.
- We arrange over 670 participatory educational workshops each year that help deliver real social benefits.
- We provide top quality training and artist development opportunities for both new and established poets throughout the year.
Find out what is going on where you live by going to where are we working and clicking on your local area in the list.
Performance poetry is more than just words on a page and provides a very different, much more engaging experience than a simple poetry reading. To learn more and see examples of what this art form can do, take a tour of our site.
Check out the other about us pages to find out more about Apples and Snakes including how you can help us to maintain and develop our activities, the exciting new Free Word development and how we work with businesses and other third sector organisations to present the magic and benefits of Apples and Snakes at your workplace.
