The Poetry Takeaway

The Poetry Takeaway is ‘the world’s first purpose-built mobile poetry emporium.’

It specialises in the production of free, made-to-order poems, delivered and performed to the hungry yet discerning literary consumer within ten minutes or less. Its modelled on your typical burger van and is manned by a rotating cast of the UK’s best poetry chefs who write, perform and deliver a hand-written, carefully boxed, souvenir copy of every customer’s poem (open or wrapped). As featured in Time Out, on BBC Radio Four and on BBC 6 Music.

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London Southbank diner

“The Poetry Takeaway itself seemed like fairytale magic to me that day” 

Storyfest diner

“Your poem, in its takeaway wrapper and lives on our fridge door within the children’s reach, they regularly, show friends and visitors ‘their poem’ – sometimes my daughter takes it off to a quiet corner and returns it later.”