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.