2016 The legendary John Cooper Clarke at the New Theatre Royal for Portsmouth Festivities 2016

We commissioned local graffiti artist My Dog Sighs to paint a tribute to the Bard of Salford

2017 Arts Council England funded performance event at the Cathedral

Heritage Lotter funded project commemorating men from Portsmouth at Passchendaele with Portsmouth Cathedral

2018 AWF centenary celebration of the life of Nelson Mandela

Penny Mordaunt MP with winning pupils from Admiral Lord Nelson School in our Passchendaele poetry competition

Josh Brown & Archivist Donna Bish were invited to the WW1 Centenary Service at Westminster Abbey

2019 Celebrating 20 years of Portsmouth Festivities poets revisited the classic work of poet Pablo Neruda

Jeff Towns 'the Dylan Thomas Guy' talking about his latest book on poet Edward Thomas who lived locally

2019 Festival of the Sea project with the New Theatre Royal

2019 Our last Guildhall Studio performance before the Covid pandemic

2020 during the Covid pandemic Mark Cassidy an unpublished UK poet won the competition and was published in our collection in 2023

2022 Ports Fest Welsh actor, singer, and author Carys Eleri's one-woman show about medieval feminist poet Gwerful Merchain

Portsmouth Poetry podcasts - Poetry in rock lyrics and reminiscences of Robert Graves om Spotify, Apple Play & Buzzsprout

Our rap partners and some of the pupil poets from Park School performed at St Mary's Church

Park Community School pupils appeered in our latest podcast

We hosted the launch of new work by Maggie Sawkins & George Marsh

2023 Portsmouth Poetry published its first collection of 15 poets, some new some famous

Brian Bilston the 'Banksy of Social Media headlined Ports Festia

Brilliant Welsh poet Rowen Brittany (here signing copies of her poems) supported Brian Bilston. Both poets appear in our collection.