Ledbury Poetry Festival

Ledbury Poetry Salon and Open Mic with featured poet Laura Scott

Hosted by Chloe Garner, Festival Artistic Director

7pm – 9pm on Zoom

Tickets £3

Once payment is received the Zoom link for this event will be sent to you by email.

Please email Chloe Garner on director@poetry-festival.co.uk to request an Open Mic slot. Places on the Open Mic will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

Laura Scott was born in London and now lives in Norwich. Her pamphlet, What I Saw, won the Michael Marks Prize in 2014, and in 2015 she won the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize. A selection of her work was featured in Carcanet’s New Poetries VII in 2018. Her collection So Many Rooms was published in 2019 and won the Seamus Heaney Prize.

The event will combine readings and conversation with opportunities for the audience to contribute to the conversation and pose questions in the chat. The Open Mic follows for the second half of the evening