Ledbury Poetry Festival

Elizabeth Parker – Poetry Salon 11th Feb 2020

Jonathan Edwards – Poetry Salon 10th Dec 2019

Home on the Move – Poetry Salon 4 October 2019

01. Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize for Second Collections

02. Roger McGough joinedupwriting

04. German Translation Duel

05. Andrew Motion and Hannah Sullivan, readings and conversation

07. Reprieve readings hosted by Clive Stafford Smith

08. I am a Rohingya – discussion and reading

12. Fiona Sampson and Phoebe Power

13. Yu Yoyo and A.K. Blakemore

15. Ilya Kaminsky and Aleš Šteger, reading and conversation chaired by Sandeep Parmar

16. Versopolis Poetry

18. Community Showcase

24. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Place: A day conference – Session 1

24. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Place: A day conference – Session 2

24. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Place: A day conference – Session 3

24. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Place: A day conference – Session 4

27. Poetry of the Holocaust

29. Immersion Day – The Life and Poetry of Bertolt Brecht

30. Get Ready for Unleashed Young Voices

31. National Poetry Competition Reading

32. Brecht the poet now performance

35. Under A Cold Sky: The poetry of Wilfrid Gibson, Ivor Gurney and Jean Atkin

37. Talk on The Alvarez Generation with William Wootten

38. Desert Island Poems with Alexei Sayle

39. The Making of: Hush Now

40. Eric Gregory Award Winners

42. UA Fanthorpe event with RV Bailey and Alison Brackenbury

43. Festival Showcase: John Masefield High School Students, Foyle Young Poets

45. Brian Bilston and Nikita Gill

47. World Poets Series: Laura Wittner, with Pedro Serrano

48. Ledbury Poetry Competition Winners

49. Ali Smith’s Poem selection

50. Owen Sheers

51. Margaret Atwood Poetry Reading

Pop-up event featuring Kickstarter Poets

56. Thomas Dilworth on David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet

57. World Poetry Series: Shivanee Ramlochan and Enrique Winter

59. Ishion Hutchinson and Jay Bernard: Poetry Reading and conversation

60. Margaret Atwood’s Favourite Poems

David Morley – Poetry Salon 19th March 2019

Nigel McLoughin – Poetry Salon, 12 February 2019

Jean Boase-Beier – Poetry Salon, 27 November 2018

Angela France – Poetry Salon 23rd October 2018

Troubadour of the Hills

01. Festival Launch! Showcase and Celebration!

02. Jackie Kay

03. Joelle Taylor and Sabrina Mahfouz

05. Refugee Tales with Patrick Gale and Jackie Kay

06. Poetry and Class Politics in the Age of Austerity with Jane Commane

07. The Mighty Stream, Poems In Celebration of Martin Luther King

08. Helen Dunmore Tribute

09. Ledbury Poetry Competition Winners Event

11. The Life and Rhymes of Benjamin Zephaniah

13. Poetry Reading: Lachlan MacKinnon and Linda Gregerson

17. Poetry Reading: Nia Davies and Caroline Bird

20. Ritual Poetry

21. Poetry Reading: Jane Commane and Liz Berry

Community Showcase

27. The Power of Words – 21st Century Mental Health

28. Sarah Churchwell on Sylvia Plath

33. The Man with the Blue Guitar – an aural/textual immersion

34. This Horde of Destructions – new perspectives on Wallace Stevens

35. Mark Doty on Wallace Stevens: The Palm at the End of the Mind

37. Love Songs of WW3 – A tribute to Adrian Mitchell with Sasha Mitchell, Peter Moser and Michael Palin

38. Tony Sharpe on Auden’s Holy Places

43. Derek Walcott talk by poet Matthew Clegg

45. A poetic take on life in and out of Squeeze with Chris Difford

46. Friends of the Dymock Poets present Voices from the Great War

Being Heard

49. “I don’t give back a word”: National Poetry Competition 40th anniversary readings

50. The Personal is Political

54. Eric Gregory Award Winners

56. Jill Abram presents Stablemates

57. Poet and novelist Polly Clark chats with Judy Brown

58. Sinéad Morrissey

59. Poetry Reading: Raymond Antrobus, Peter Raynard and Josephine Corcoran

62. What is the Role of the Poetry Critic?

65. George Mario Angel Quintero and Richard Gwyn

66. Found Voices with Sara-Jane Arbury

67. Ledbury Forte Second Collection Prize Showcase and Celebration

69. Michael Pennington performs poems by William Blake

70. Modern Poetry in Translation Summer Launch

73. A Normal Imagination with Henry Normal

77. American Stars Marie Howe and Jericho Brown

79. Ukrainian Translation Duel

83. Jan Wagner and Iain Galbraith

85. Versopolis Readings

Jacqui Rowe – Poetry Salon 6th June 2018

Roy McFarlane – Poetry Salon 8th May 2018

Roz Goddard – Poetry Salon 6th March 2018

Adam Horovitz – Poetry Salon 6th February 2018

Jeff Phelps – Poetry Salon 5th December 2017

Anneliese Emmans Dean and Sara Hirsch – Poetry Salon 7th November 2017

Claire Crowther – Poetry Salon 17 October 2017

01 – 21 Years of Ledbury Poetry Festival

04 – Sean Hughes Poetry and Stand-up

06. Bejan Matur and Jen Hadfield

07 – A.E. Stallings and Matthew Francis

10 – Thomas Lynch and Tony Hoagland

12 – Ledbury Poetry Competition Winners

14 – Romanian Women Poets

21 – Mslexia – Meet the Poetry Editors

23 – Tabish Khair readings and conversation with David Punter

John Masefield Inspires

26 – Rhyme and Reason with Richard Dawkins

27 – Choman Hardi, James Sheard and André Naffis-Sahely

29 – Jacqueline Saphra – All My Mad Mothers

32 – Poets’ Ways of Life

33a – Part One – Elvis McGonagall

33b – Part Two – Luke Wright

36 – Tony Hoagland – The American Poetic Voice

37 – Journeys With Seamus

41 – Traitor or Translator

45 – Roy McFarlane and Deborah Alma

52 – Desert Island Poems with Hugh Dennis

55 – Desert Island Poems with Paddy Ashdown

56 – John Hegley

57 – The Cause: The Struggle Goes On

61 – Eric Gregory Poets

62 – National Poetry Competition 2016 Winners

63 – Irish Poets: Jane Clarke, Rita Ann Higgins and Louis de Paor

65 – Denise Riley and Vahni Capildeo

70 – Poetry and Mental Health with Melissa Lee-Houghton

71 – ‘I am black, I am black’

77 – Kayo Chingonyi and Miriam Nash

79 – Malika’s Poetry Kitchen

82- Jacob Sam La Rose and Tara Bergin

83 – Translation Duel

85 – Jill Abram presents Stablemates

86 – Versopolis: A Celebration of Emerging European Poets

Gregory Leadbetter – Poetry Salon 16th May 2017

Rhiannon Hooson – Poetry Salon 6th April 2017

Nichola Deane – Poetry Salon 7 March 2017

Pia Tafdrup – Poetry Salon 16 February 2017

Philip Gross – Poetry Salon Tuesday 8 November 2016

Deborah Alma – Poetry Salon 11th October 2016

01 – Foyle Young Poets

02 – Hwaet! 20 Years of Ledbury Poetry Festival!

04 – We Are All from Somewhere Else

05 – Fleur Adcock and Hannah Lowe

07a – Versopolis Part 1

07b – Versopolis Part 2

08 – Peter Tatchell’s Desert Island Poems

10 – “Yippee!” Laughter and Melancholy in the Poetry of Frank O’Hara

11 – James Fenton

14 – Jacob Polley and Aonghas MacNeacail

17 – Mark Waldron and Matthew Caley

18 – Desert Island Poems with Dame Eileen Atkins