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02. Primary Schools Performance with Waterstones Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho
A fabulous Festival performance with Waterstones Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho.
09. Family Histories: Sarala Estruch and Stephanie Sy-Quia
Join Sarala Estruch and Stephanie Sy-Quia, friends and fellow Ledbury Critics, as they discuss their debuts.
12. Poetry and conversation with Maya C. Popa and Matthew Hollis
Maya C. Popa is a Romanian-American writer, academic, and editor whose books include American Faith and, newly released to rapturous acclaim, Wound is the Origin of Wonder.
15. Nothing Can Break My Heart Like England Can: Preti Taneja and Zaffar Kunial
Preti Taneja and Zaffar Kunial approach the English, and the pastoral, in different and remarkable ways.
19. Beatriz Chivite Ezkieta, Lidija Dimkovska and Grug Muse
Three women poets from different parts of Europe who share common themes and whose poetry exists ‘between languages’.
20. Form as Radical Midwife: Queering the Page – alice hiller and Padraig Regan
Two poets discuss how the look of their poetry on the page is critical to their processes of organic exploration and transmission.
23. Michael Morpurgo: ‘My Heart was a Tree’
The great children’s writer, Michael Morpurgo, introduces his new anthology, a love letter to trees.
25. Dead Poets Society 4: Lal Ded and Eluned Phillips with Tishani Doshi and Menna Elfyn
We read the work of the C14th Kashmiri mystic poet, Lal Ded, translated for Penguin Classics by Ranjit Hoskote.
30. Dead Poets Society 6: Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Don Paterson, Dinah Roe, Fiona Sampson & Claire Armitstead
A celebration of the 44 love sonnets published in 1850 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, superstar poet and linguist of this parish.
32. Dead Poets Society 7: Shakespeare’s Sonnets with Don Paterson and Emma Smith
Shakespeare’s Sonnets are as important and vital today as they were when first published four hundred years ago.
33. Dead Poets Society 8: Shakespeare’s First Folio at 400 with Emma Smith
Appearing some seven years after their author’s death in 1616. Its 950 folio pages included thirty-six plays.
38. Dead Poets Society 9: The Wife of Bath with Marion Turner
Marion Turner tells the fascinating story of where Chaucer’s favourite character came from, how she related to real medieval women.
39. Don Paterson reading and conversation
Poems of and for our times, by one of the UK’s most celebrated and formally adventurous writers.
45. Dead Poets Society 10: John Masefield Philip W Errington
Philip W Errington, pre-eminent Masefield scholar, celebrates the poetry of Ledbury’s most famous literary son.
48. Dead Poets Society 11: Christine de Pizan with Charlotte Cooper-Davis
Christine de Pizan dwelled within the heart of late-medieval Paris and wrote more than 40 works including poetry, historical and political treatises and defenses of women.
51. Dead Poets Society 12: The Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke
With Karen Leeder, Professor of Modern German Literature at Oxford, poet Ulrike Almut Sandigand and Martyn Crucefix, translator of The Duino Elegies.
52. Ledbury Poetry Competition Winners hosted by Joelle Taylor
An event to celebrate recent winners of Ledbury Poetry Competition.
59. A Celebration of Poetry and Translation
Join Mona Kareem and Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi with their translators Sara Elkamel, Bryar Bajalan and Shook, for moving bilingual readings and exploration of their work.
60. Versopolis: A Celebration of European Poetry
Our annual celebration of poetry from Europe featuring Ulrike Almut Sandig and Theresa Salomonsen with translator Karen Leeder.
62. Complex Matters of State with Gail McConnell
Gail McConnell’s work – The Sun is Open – explores pain of a personal loss (the killing of the author’s father by the IRA) and a larger conflict.