About us
Apples & Snakes is the leading organisation for performance poetry in the UK.
- 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 – what is performance poetry and company brochure are great places to start
Check out the other about us pages to find out more about Apples & 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 & Snakes at your workplace.




