Count down

Just realised there are only 149 days until the Ledbury Poetry Festival and that includes weekends and bank holidays - and with 'that wedding' there is an extra bank holiday. Not panicking - yet...

TS Eliot Prize

Off to the T S Eliot Shortlist Readings which are taking place on Sunday 23 January in the Royal Festival Hall and then the award ceremony at the Wallace Collection on Monday night.  Very excited at hearing such interesting poets read live. 

Poetry Competition 2011

The Ledbury Poetry Festival Competition is now open - judged by Anthony Thwaite (adults) and Mandy Ross (young people).  For more information go to our website at www.poetry-festival.com/poetry-competition.html for details on rules and prizes.  Closing date 28th April 2011. 

Winners get the opportunity to read as part of the festival (1-10 July 2011).

Happy New Year!

Back in the office after a very self indulgent Christmas (I never want to look another Christmas pudding in the eye again).. and back down to funding applications which although time consuming and often monotonous, keep our festival going. I have to keep reminding myself why we are doing it and each time I look at the growing list of poets already confirmed I get excited again: Matt Harvey, Penelope Shuttle, Luke Wright, Jacki Kay... are just a few - good times ahead! 

Welcome to Ledbury Poetry Festival

We shall be blogging lots and lots of interesting stuff relating to poetry events at the Ledbury Poetry Festival, which commences on 1st July 2011 and runs until the 11th. Watch this space!