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Thank you to all the shops and businesses who joined in the 2017 competition! Your windows were creative and inventive and brightened up the town!
Ledbury Poetry Festival is a charitable organisation and donations help us to keep the cost of tickets to a minimum. Any donation would be greatly appreciated.
The Ledbury Poetry Festival takes place over ten days each July (20 June – 9 July, 2017). We are the biggest and best poetry festival in the UK, featuring poets from all over the world. If you think you know what poetry is, come along and we’ll surprise you. There are live readings, performances, workshops, open mics, music, exhibitions, films, family events, street events, a slam and much more. 2016 is our twentieth year – join us for a celebration of poetry in the rural heartland of England.
The Festival thanks all the people and institutions who provide support, especially the Arts Council of England, the Town Council, foundations and charitable trusts. The Ledbury Poetry Festival is firmly built on the voluntary support and freely given time of the many local businesses and residents who help make the Festival such a success. For a full list please see our Festival Funders’ and Sponsors’ page.
hear poems from The Soil Never Sleeps, a new poetry collection from Adam Horovitz. As poet in residence for the Pasture-fed Livestock Association, Adam was commissioned to visit four of their farms across England and Wales and write about them. He reflects passionately on his love of Britain’s landscape and especially its farms.
Ledbury Poetry Festival in collaboration with award-winning poets Sandeep Parmar and Sarah Howe are delighted to announce the 8 participants selected for the innovative Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critics mentoring programme.
