Ledbury Poetry Player

A fabulous Festival performance with Waterstones Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho.

Join Sarala Estruch and Stephanie Sy-Quia, friends and fellow Ledbury Critics, as they discuss their debuts.

Preti Taneja and Zaffar Kunial approach the English, and the pastoral, in different and remarkable ways.

Three women poets from different parts of Europe who share common themes and whose poetry exists ‘between languages’.

Two poets discuss how the look of their poetry on the page is critical to their processes of organic exploration and transmission.

The great children’s writer, Michael Morpurgo, introduces his new anthology, a love letter to trees.

We read the work of the C14th Kashmiri mystic poet, Lal Ded, translated for Penguin Classics by Ranjit Hoskote.

A celebration of the 44 love sonnets published in 1850 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, superstar poet and linguist of this parish.

Shakespeare’s Sonnets are as important and vital today as they were when first published four hundred years ago.

Appearing some seven years after their author’s death in 1616. Its 950 folio pages included thirty-six plays.

Marion Turner tells the fascinating story of where Chaucer’s favourite character came from, how she related to real medieval women.

Poems of and for our times, by one of the UK’s most celebrated and formally adventurous writers.

Philip W Errington, pre-eminent Masefield scholar, celebrates the poetry of Ledbury’s most famous literary son.

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.

With Karen Leeder, Professor of Modern German Literature at Oxford, poet Ulrike Almut Sandigand and Martyn Crucefix, translator of The Duino Elegies.

An event to celebrate recent winners of Ledbury Poetry Competition.

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.

Our annual celebration of poetry from Europe featuring Ulrike Almut Sandig and Theresa Salomonsen with translator Karen Leeder.

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.