Beehive Poets – Friday 6th March, 7pm
Do you know about the Beehive poets?
The Beehives are a poetry collective, based in Bradford.
Every month they showcase at City Library.
Next month,on Friday 6th March, 7pm, they will be hosting esteemed poet, Sean O’Brien, alongside Kristina Diprose, one of the co-hosts at the regular poetry night Rhubarb at the Triangle.
Sean O’Brien, will be reading from his new collection, The Bonfire Party, recently published by Picador.
Other publications publications include Embark (2022), Impasse: for Jules Maigret (2023), Otherwise (2023) and Juniper (2024). His collection of short stories The Long Glass appeared in spring 2025.
His poetry has received the Somerset Maugham, Cholmondeley and E.M. Forster awards, as well as the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes. O’Brien is Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Sean will be supported by Kristina Diprose, one of the co-hosts at Rhubarb at the Triangle and a fantastic writer:
Kristina Diprose’s shape-shifting writing explores ecological and mythological themes and our entanglement with the more-than-human world.
She won the inaugural Oxford Canal Festival poetry competition in 2024, and has been shortlisted in the Artemesia Arts, Wolverhampton Literature Festival, Ginkgo Prize and Leeds Poetry Festival competitions.
She was an Ilkley Literature Festival New Northern Poet in 2023. Her debut pamphlet, Thin Spells, was published in September 2025 by The Black Cat Poetry Press. She has also written short story commissions for Bradford 2025 in partnership with the Brontë Parsonage Museum, and appeared on BBC Front Row.
Beehive Poets host two poets on the first Friday of every month at City Library at 7pm. Come along for a treat of an evening.
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