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Upload Your Poetry of The Woods
[wrc_column grid=”3″ width=”2″ type=”start”]Ledbury Poetry Festival is partnering with Queenswood Country Park to launch our “Poetry of the Woods” on-line poetry submission. We are calling for your...
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Segments March Workshop
This is the Segments workshop which would have taken place on Wednesday 18th March in Ledbury’s Burgage Hall The Festival is very grateful to practitioner Sara-Jane Arbury for sharing her plans for the...
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Transcripts of Online Community Poetry Workshops
Segments and Poetry and Pictures online Workshops Welcome to Ledbury Poetry Festival’s Community Programme Poetry Workshops! We offer two a month: Segments, and Poetry and Pictures. Make yourself a cup...
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Pictures and Poetry Online Transcripts
Pictures and Poetry In these workshops, we use artworks as the inspiration for writing ekphrastic poetry (poetry inspired by pictures). They are run in partnership with Hereford Mind, Heffernan House,...
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Links and Resources for Aspiring Writers
Links and Resources for Aspiring Writers Don’t forget to enter any poems you write to Ledbury Poetry Competition: https://www.poetry-festival.co.uk/ledbury-poetry-competition/ Deadline – 5pm, 15 July...
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Lockdown Poems
Photo by Elena Mozhvilo on Unsplash Thank you to everyone who has submitted Lockdown poems. On Sunday 5 July, at 12.30pm – 1.30pm, there was a Poetry of the Lockdown event as part of Ledbury Poetry...
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Ledbury Under 18’s Poetry Competition 2020
Poetry Competition for Young People (12 – 17 years) and Children (11 years and under) Entry has now closed. You may not be aware that the annual Ledbury Poetry Festival Poetry Competition has...
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Donate!
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Festival Online Recordings
Ledbury Poetry Festival Online 4th – 5th July 2020 The recordings have now expired – we’re sorry you missed them but look out for news about Ledbury Poetry Festival in 2021 – why not join our mailing...
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19 New Mentees Join Ledbury Poetry Critics Network
Ledbury Poetry Critics announces its third and largest intake of new mentees, growing from eleven to thirty members. In 2017, in collaboration with Ledbury Poetry Festival, the Ledbury Poetry Critics...
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Versopolis Chapbooks
Versopolis is a European poetry platform that creates opportunities for emerging European poets. Ledbury Poetry Festival is proud to be a founder member of this platform. Find out more at Versopolis...
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Lockdown Reads
[wrc_column grid=”2″ width=”1″ type=”start”]What are you reading in these grey days? Please share, using the form below. Perhaps, like me, you are grabbing any opportunity to dive under a blanket, with...
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Ledbury Poetry Festival Poetry Competition 2021
The 2021 Ledbury Poetry Competition is now closed. Look out for the winners’ announcement! Picture Credit: Alessandro Furchino Capria JUDGE: Anthony Anaxagorou CLOSING DATE: Thursday 15 July 2021 at...
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Ley Hunt: Ways, Lines and Tracks
Lines, tracks, ancient locations, spiritual sites. Send us your poems to celebrate 100 years of Ley Lines! Invented in Herefordshire! Alfred Watkins – Arthur’s Stone The idea for these invisible...
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Barrett Browning Institute What are your hopes for Ledbury’s Barrett Browning Institute (The Clock Tower)? Find out more here Any questions? Please do email Chloe Garner, director@poetry-festival.co.uk
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Ledbury Poetry Festival, 2 – 11 July 2021 At a Glance Programme pdf available HERE For the duration of the Festival: ledbury.poetrypin.info is an interactive poetry trail in and around the heritage...
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Sunday 11 July
Sunday 11 July 2021 Online events will be available for ticket holders to access for two weeks after they finish. Workshop with Jamie Thrasivoulou: Exiting the safe space and moving away from the I...
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Saturday 10 July
Saturday 10 July 2021 Online events will be available for ticket holders to access for two weeks after they finish. Spellwright, Market House, 10am – 4pm, Free What would make your life better? Take...
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Friday 9 July
Friday 9 July Online events will be available for ticket holders to access for two weeks after they finish. Workshop with Rosalind Hudis: Alchemy – how to turn science into lyric. 2pm – 4pm, Barrett...
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