National Poetry Centre

The National Poetry Centre of the United Kingdom is a charity, registered in 2022, which plans to open a centre in Leeds, West Yorkshire, in 2027.

Its trustees include Poet Laureate Simon Armitage, who has said "My highest ambition when appointed Poet Laureate was to create a national home for poetry in my native West Yorkshire."

In March 2024, it was announced that the Department for Levelling Up would make a grant of £5 million to the centre.

Building
The centre is to occupy the former Trinity St David's church on Woodhouse Lane, adjacent to the University of Leeds campus. This is a grade II listed building, which was a Congregational church from 1902 to 1972 and a United Reformed church from 1972 to 1997, and more recently has been used as a university furniture store and as a nightclub under the names "Halo" and "Quilted Llama".