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2 – 11 July 2010 the Tourist Information Centre on 5 Hellens Manor, 12 Railway Station 01531 636147 Box Office 0845 458 1743 Visiting Ledbury www.poetry-festival.com Ledbury is well served by bus, coach and KEY train services from London and the 1 Burgage Hall 8 Hus and Hem Midlands as well as being within a few minutes of the M50 motorway. 2 Community Hall 9 Three Counties 3 Market Theatre Books For further information and details of 4 John Masefield 10 Prince of Wales travel and accommodation, please call High School 11 Dragon Orchard 2 – 11 July 2010 the Tourist Information Centre on 5 Hellens Manor, 12 Railway Station 01531 636147. Much Marcle 13 Festival Common Room 6 Icebytes and Weavers Gallery 7 Seven Stars 14 Tinsmiths 15 Cummins Farm To the Railway Station, 16 TIC and Hereford For access information please 17 Camp Site see inside back cover 11 12 N 6 THE HOMEND LA BOX WNSIDE RO T OFFICE E E R T S 2 H C 7 R U 10 P H Free AD P C 13 ANE Car Park CHURCH L P HIGH 1 TREET BYE S 9 Market House P ST TREET MARKET 14 “a rare and genuine joining BRIDGE S STREET 16 REET 8 3 15 of place, poetry and people” AD T WORCESTER RO STREE Carol Ann Duffy NEW To Malvern T To Birmingham H & Worcester M5 E S WORCESTER 17 O U J7 MALVERN T H HEREFORD A438 LEDBURY E M50 J8 N D A449 TEWKESBURY A438 J2 J9 www.poetry-festival.com A49 J4 A417 ROSS-ON-WYE A40 GLOUCESTER J11 CHELTENHAM J12 To Newport and Cardiff To Hellens, Ross-on-Wye, M5 the M50, Cheltenham G River N and Gloucester SWINDON O Severn L 4 R U M4 F 5 To London S M32 L E M5 B BRISTOL A M Pennington-Mellor-Munthe Charitable Trust Box Office 0845 458 1743 Introduction Friday 2 July www.poetry-festival.com “If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry” wrote Emily Dickinson. What a way to describe the intensity and excitement of hearing great poetry and discovering new poets and poems that you might read again and again for the rest of your life. We present a huge range of events from readings, to talks, walks, open mics and performances combining poetry with music, dance and good food. There will be many opportunities for discussion, laughter, creativity and celebration, including the town party when the High Street of Ledbury will close on the last Sunday of the Festival for revelry and dancing. Michael McClure Siobhan Davies ph Thierry Bal James Wilkes, Holly Pester This Festival could not exist without the hard work and total dedication of our band of trusty and energetic volunteers, who carry out every job including stewarding, hospitality, driving, working in the office and 1. Michael McClure 2. Differences 3. Holly Pester hosting our poets and performers. Our volunteers give the Festival its unique and friendly atmosphere and are a joy to work with. 6pm – 7pm | £8 by Siobhan Davies Dance and James Wilkes Community Hall Co-commissioned by 9.30pm – 10.30pm | £6 Chloe Garner Festival Director Michael McClure gave his first The Ledbury Poetry Festival and Burgage Hall poetry reading at the legendary Six Siobhan Davies Dance James Wilkes and Holly Pester Gallery event in San Francisco, where 8pm – 9pm | £8 work collaboratively on themed Allen Ginsberg first read Howl. Poetry in the Community Community Hall poetry sets which explore forms of Poets in Schools “The role model for Jim Morrison” performed texts and live word-scores. The Community programme This year poets Val Bloom, according to the Los Angeles Times, Siobhan Davies writes, “As a They are currently experimenting works with organisations Roz Goddard, Michaela he was a key member of the beat choreographer I experience both with the sound aesthetics and including MIND, SCORE and Morgan, Brian Moses, generation and Dennis Hopper says, the excitement and difficulties of themes of radio, devising a poetics Salter’s Hill, reaching out to Emma Purshouse, Philip “Without McClure’s roar there would organising my material. Last year that performs something they term older people in residential or Wells and Chris White have been no Sixties.” His play I began to read more poetry and as a ‘radio voice’. Their collaborative day care settings and people will visit Ledbury, Eastnor, The Beard provoked numerous I enjoyed it for its’ own sake Ledbury reading is an accumulation with a wide range of physical Cradley, Ashperton, censorship battles and his songs completely, but it also allowed me of investigations into the voice and and learning challenges. The Much Marcle, Pendock, include Mercedes Benz, popularised to think about the disciplines poets transmission. Using radiophonic Festival also leads creative writing workshops for Bromsberrow and Colwall Primary Schools. The Poets by Janis Joplin. McClure reads with might use as creative strategies. scores and parodies of ‘panic adult literacy students and students learning English in Schools programme also includes two ‘Keen an actor’s command and a singer’s I recognised some behaviour and broadcasts’ they ask: why does radio as a second language. Poets Brenda Read-Brown, Writers’ workshops, a Young Shakespeare workshop timing and his impact transports questions that could be common to seem to so neatly equate with ruin? Sally Givertz and Sara-Jane Arbury work with performance of Hamlet and an exhibition of illustrated audiences to a very different and both a choreographer and a poet. Where’s the line between a signal for people who may never be able to attend a Festival poems in the Weavers Gallery. The Festival Out Loud intriguing place. Two collections of For instance, how do we find the help, and a transmission call to arms? event, who have never attempted creative writing event, hosted by Brian Moses, is the culmination and McClure’s poems are presently being most economical and accurate And, how does the voice preserve before, or have never taken part in any cultural public showcase for the poetry writing achieved in published, Mysteriosos and other written or movement language”. the message? activity. These activities create opportunities for schools, with contributions from 100 children aged Poems and Of Indigo and Saffron: Differences will involve one self-expression and community that are clearly hugely five to eleven years old, who proudly perform their Selected and New Poems. A very Holly Pester performs regularly silent piece of choreography co- rewarding for all involved. “It identifies and addresses work to a packed audience. rare opportunity to hear this iconic throughout the UK including the commissioned by The Ledbury Poetry all the “mess” that’s going on inside and helps to American poet, whose poetry Allen recent Serpentine Gallery Poetry Frances Bradley, schools’ co-ordinator, who voluntarily Festival and Siobhan Davies Dance process it and so move a step forward,” writes one Ginsberg described as “a blob of Marathon. James Wilkes is a poet, gives her time to make this amazing programme and existing works by several writers. participant from Herefordshire Mind at Heffernan protoplasmic energy.” critic and playwright based in South possible writes: “The magic of words, the power of The dance and poetry will remain House. One of the Community Programme groups, East London. They both appeared the imagination and the opportunity for children to distinct and by placing them in the called Segments, will perform their poems at the in the anthology Generation Txt express their personal and individual thoughts same context we might start a series Festival in Event 24 on page 8 of the programme. (Penned in the Margins, 2006). through words and pictures, are what the Festival of conversations about choreography Eekbatik artists worked with Salter’s Hill residents to Poets in Schools programme aims to foster.” and the writing of poetry and about BYO (Bring your own drinks, we create ten flags, which will hang alongside the twenty how artists shape and phrase a work provide corkscrews and glasses.) Sponsored by Seary Charitable Trust, Mr J. Brooks, created by John Masefield High School students, to hold it together as well as propel Pennington-Mellor-Munthe Charitable Trust making for an eye-catching and colourful display it out to the audience. along Ledbury’s streets. Sponsored by Coutts Charitable Trust 1 Box Office 0845 458 1743 Saturday 3 July www.poetry-festival.com 4. Animate a Poem, Drop in Workshop for Families 10am – 4pm | FREE Upstairs at the Market House Amarjit Chandan Jane Weir Pascale Petit ph Dafna Kaplan ph Diwan Manna Christopher Reid ph Jemimah Kuhfeld Don Paterson Come and help to create an animated poem using the magic of stopmotion 5. Bookbinding 7. Film Double Bill 8. Amarjit Chandan 9. Christopher Reid 10am – 12noon animation. Make characters Angel-Headed Hipsters: Four and Stephen Watts and Don Paterson Festival Common Room | FREE and scenery from the poem Films on Four American Poets Programme B: Way Out West 12.45pm – 1.45pm | £8 2.30pm – 3.30pm | £8 by using a range of exciting The Society of Bookbinders presents produced, photographed & 2.30pm -4.10pm Burgage Hall Community Hall materials and watch them the traditional craft of bookbinding. directed by Colin Still ‘Gary Snyder: Ledbury Poetry Festival hosts the Two acclaimed poets in what is come alive! Also try your hand Anyone who is interested in the Market Theatre Finding the Space in the Heart’, launch of Amarjit Chandan long- bound to be a stunning event. at other simple animation structure of books and the skills £5 ea. or £8 for both showings 25 mins [1996] awaited first full-length collection Christopher Reid won the 2009 techniques.
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