Year: 2019

Read all about our amazing 10 day festival, and our year round work in schools, vulnerable community groups, emerging poets and poetry critics. Record audiences, volunteers and fantastic poetry competition …[Read More]

Too late for Christmas now. The Ledbury Poetry Festival shop has now closed.  Sorry we missed you.

Text by Sandeep Parmar. Aleš Šteger is a poet, prose writer and essayist, based in Ljubljana, Slovenia. His work has been widely translated into several languages including German, Czech, Croatian …[Read More]

Passengers passing through Ledbury station during the July poetry festival noticed something unusual. The railway station was renamed “Ledbury: Junction for Poetry” in honour of the town’s poetry festival and …[Read More]

Four new mentees join the existing cohort of eight poetry critics: Victoria Adukwei Bulley, Joanna Lee, Stephanie Sy-Quia and Sarah-Jean Zubair Victoria Adukwei Bulley is a British-born Ghanaian poet, writer …[Read More]

Congratulations to A.K. Blakemore who is the winner of the 2017/18 Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize for Second Collections for Fondue published by Offord Road Books. You can hear a podcast of …[Read More]

The 2019 Festival Programme! Friday 5 – Sunday 14 July, 2019 To view the programme please click the link below: Ledbury Poetry Festival Programme 2019 Want a programme sent to …[Read More]

Ledbury Poetry Festival’s first ever crowdfunding campaign is launched!     Ledbury Poetry Festival is launching its first ever crowd funding campaign with Kickstarter. This campaign aims to raise funds to …[Read More]

LEDBURY POETRY FESTIVAL FULLY FUNDED LINKLATER METHOD VOICE COACHING RESIDENTIAL WORKSHOP FOR NEW POETS   DATES: 13 – 16 MAY 2019 HELLENS MANOR, MUCH MARCLE NR LEDBURY, HEREFORDSHIRE, HR8 2LY …[Read More]

Applications are now being taken for this fantastic opportunity! Think you have what it takes to be Festival intern? Meet famous poets, celebrities and performers! Learn skills in event managing, …[Read More]

THE WINNERS HAVE BEEN DECIDED! Go to https://www.poetry-festival.co.uk/ledbury-poetry-competition/ Ledbury Poetry Festival 2019 Poetry Competition carries a great first prize of £1000 cash and a residential course at Ty Newydd , …[Read More]

Ledbury Poetry Festival and The University of Roehampton Poetry Centre are offering a fully catered, immersive poetry residential 1 – 4 July 2019 Dates Midday Monday 1st July to 2pm, Thursday …[Read More]

Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critics The successful national mentoring programme, to encourage diversity in poetry reviewing, returns and opens for applications from new and emerging critical voices Application deadline: April 1st …[Read More]