Ledbury Poetry Residential In partnership with the University of Roehampton Poetry Centre 1–4 July 2019 Hellens Manor, Much Marcle Near Ledbury, Herefordshire, Hr8 2Ly

Ledbury Poetry Festival and the University of David Harsent is a British poet and librettist. He Roehampton Poetry Centre are offering a fully has published twelve volumes of poetry. Legion catered, immersive poetry residential in 2019. won the Forward Prize for best collection 2005; Poetry expresses the self, captures the world, Night (2011) was triple short-listed in the UK and and gives both poet and reader new ways of won the Griffin International Poetry Prize. Fire seeing. Whether you’re a keen novice or working Songs won the 2014 T.S. Eliot Prize. His most on your fifteenth collection, and whatever recent collection, Salt, was described by John your background, award-winning poets Fiona Burnside, writing in the New Statesman, as ‘a Sampson and David Harsent will help you take masterpiece’. Harsent is Professor of Creative your work to a new level, show how the craft of Writing at the University of Roehampton and poetry leads to the art of poetry, help you fashion Chair of the Roehampton Poetry Centre. and edit your poetry with an eye to publishing, Hellens Manor is an ancient family home and give you new skills and ways of going on dating back to the 11th century. The course will to make your future work sing. Four days of take place in the recently refurbished Georgian workshops, one-to-one tutorials and readings Stables which sit in the landscape of lawns, in a friendly, inspiring work atmosphere and the meadow and paddocks. The rare 17th century beautiful setting of Hellens Manor. Timed to occur octagonal dovecote, a physic garden, yew just before the Festival starts so you can immerse labyrinth, herb and kitchen gardens, woodlands yourself fully in the 10 days of poetry that follow. and ponds are a delight to the eye and nourishment for one’s spirit. Tutors Professor Fiona Sampson is a leading British Booking: www.poetry-festival.co.uk poet and writer. She is published in thirty-seven Only 10 places – book early! languages, and has received many national Early bird cost £380/£395 (shared bathrooms) awards as well as international prizes in the US, – £425 (ensuite) to include all meals, , Macedonia and Bosnia. A Fellow of the accommodation and tuition Royal Society of Literature, she has an MBE for After 24 May 2019, all places £425 services to literature. Her critically acclaimed Enquiries: Phillippa Slinger biography, In Search of Mary Shelley (2018), was [email protected] published in 2018. 01531 634156. Access: please call to discuss access arrangements and/or mobility issues

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1. Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize FREE Family events for Second Collections: Winner Announced in the Walled Garden 6pm–7.15pm | Burgage Hall | £9.50 (weekend pass £18) Hi Summer! With Mike Barfield 11am–12noon and 2pm–3pm The judges, Linda Gregerson and Lachlan A funny, family-friendly celebration of the Mackinnon, will announce the winner of this sunniest season of the year with comic poet prestigious prize (with a £5,000 purse). Hear the Mike Barfield. Expect everything from swallows vibrant, diverse collections by the shortlisted to sunburn, picnics to pollen, and ice cream to poets: James Womack, David Tait, Rory insects. Includes lots of audience participation Waterman, A.K. Blakemore, Danez Smith and and ends with a mass warble as Mike and the Adam O’Riordan. audience recreate Beatrice Harrison’s famous 2. Roger McGough joinedupwriting 1924 cello duet with a nightingale! 8pm–9pm | Community Hall | £15 Poetry Circus with Dan the Hat! Roger McGough, one of Britain’s best-loved 12.30pm–1.15pm and 3.30–4.15pm poets, is the author of over seventy books of (plenty of time between shows poetry and editor of numerous anthologies. to try out some Circus Skills) His exuberant new collection joinedupwriting ranges from forgotten friendships and the idiosyncrasies of family life to the trauma of war and contemporary global politics. These poems explore the human experience in all its shades of light and dark but always with McGough’s signature wit, irreverence and vivacity. This is the nation’s favourite poet at his finest. @McgoughRoger

Dan the Hat’s quick wit and on the button ‘improv’ silliness is a sure fire hit with any audience! Let Dan the Hat take you on a frenzied journey: Serious Skills, Surprising Stunts and Frenzied ‘Off the Wall’ improv comedy. World Class Hat Manipulation, Juggling and YoYo - interspersed with ridiculous feats of stupidity and poetification!!

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Celebrity Babushka Добрый день The Waters of Herefordshire Visit Ludmilla Nikolayevna Popova at Ledbury 12noon–12.30pm | Open Door Designs Market from 11am. She is a famous Russian (Between Ceci Paolo and Tusk) fortune-teller and wisdom-giver from Siberia. She High Street, HR8 1DS | Free will imagine your future for you and offer you some Herefordshire Stanza Poets have a wealth of poetic inspiration to ponder! watery poems which they will share with you in this ODD space, and browse the gallery’s festival- 3. Roundtable Conversation long ‘Waters’ Exhibition of art and books. with Lachlan Mackinnon 10am–11.30am (with a quick comfort break at 20 Minutes with... Maja Lee Langvad 10.45am when those attending the German 12.20pm–12.40pm | Panelled Room, Translation Duel can leave) The Master’s House | Free Community Hall | £9.50 (weekend pass £18) Supported by Herefordshire Libraries This is an open-ended round table discussion hosted by poet Lachlan Mackinnon. Topics might include the craft of poetry and books read 5. and enjoyed. Bring along questions, problems Andrew Motion and Hannah Sullivan, Readings and Conversation with a poem in progress. Test out endings or 1pm–2pm | Community Hall | £9.50 titles and share niggles with poems. Enjoy a (£7.00 for Friends of Ledbury conversation with Lachlan Mackinnon in the Poetry Festival) company of other experienced writers. For this fascinating event one of Britain’s most 20 Minutes with… Doireann Ní Ghríofa revered and celebrated poets, Andrew Motion 10.20am – 10.40am | Panelled Room, and dazzling newcomer Hannah Sullivan, will The Master's House | Free read their poems and interview each other about Supported by Herefordshire Libraries their work. They share similarities – particularly the long-form approach and the autobiographical qualities of their poetry. Andrew Motion was Poet Laureate from 1999–2009 and is co-founder of the 4. German Translation Duel online Poetry Archive. He has received numerous 11am–12noon | Burgage Hall | £9.50 awards for his poetry, including most recently the (weekend pass £18) Ted Hughes Award. His most recent collection is Two poet-translators use their pens as swords Essex Clay. Hannah Sullivan’s debut Three Poems in this duel of words. Join Clare Pollard as Jen won the 2018 T.S. Eliot Prize. Calleja and Annie Rutherford’s translations of Sponsored by Best Friend Annie Titmas contemporary German poet Odile Kennel battle it out. A translation duel is a great way to learn about the dangers and thrills of translation! In partnership with Modern Poetry in Translation.

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6. On Reading and Writing ‘Difficult’ 7. Reprieve readings and event Poems. Workshop with Sandeep hosted by Clive Stafford Smith Parmar, Festival Poet in Residence with Roy McFarlane, Jane Commane, 2pm–4pm | Burgage Hall | £20 Jacqueline Saphra, Casey Bailey, Difficulty in poetry is sometimes construed as Ruth Stacey, Vidyan Ravinthiran an unwillingness to communicate. We often and David Morley read ‘accessible’ poems as open, generous and 3pm–4pm | Community Hall | £9.50 direct in their dialogue with readers. However, (weekend pass £18) might ‘difficult’ poems offer us a chance to In a unique collaboration, Ledbury Poetry Festival have more complex, meaningful conversations and Reprieve commissioned seven poets to write with readers and ourselves as writers? What a poem inspired by Guantánamo Bay. Reprieve specifically constitutes difficulty (formal, linguistic, founder and respected human rights lawyer, intertextual, political)? We will read some ‘difficult’ Clive Stafford Smith OBE will introduce this poets and try writing through these multiple, event and give a personal insight into the work engaging examples. of this courageous and dedicated charity. Then these diverse and brilliant poets will read their 20 Minutes with… Josep Pedrals commissioned poems for the first time. 2.20pm–2.40pm | Panelled Room, The Master’s House | Free Reprieve is an organisation that uncovers and exposes extreme human rights abuses committed Supported by Herefordshire Libraries by the powerful against the powerless, working to create a public and political climate where such abuses are condemned, where perpetrators are held to account, and where pressure exists to deter future abuses. Guantánamo has fallen off many people’s radar - that is why it’s so important to continue calling for the men left there to have meaningful access to justice. Sponsored by BRM

20 Minutes with… Indrė Valantinaitė 4.20pm–4.40pm | Panelled Room, The Master’s House | Free Supported by Herefordshire Libraries

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8. I am a Rohingya - 9. Paradise Rocks: It’s Elvis Meets discussion and reading Milton in a Hawaiian Paradise of Song 5pm–6pm | Burgage Hall | £9.50 7pm – 8.45pm (with a 15 minute interval) (weekend pass £18) The Market Theatre | £12 How does poetry emerge from one of the largest Succumb to sweet temptation in this new refugee camps in the world? What is artistic musical that adapts John Milton’s 17th century expression to a traumatised, displaced people, epic account of man’s first disobedience into a often denied the most basic education? I am Hawaiian Elvis movie from 1960. Meet Adam, heir a Rohingya is the launch of the first anthology to the Club Eden Holiday Camp empire; Eve - his of Rohingya poetry published in English (Arc blushing fiancée - struggling to resist the unruly Publications, 2019). Editors Shehzar Doja passions beneath her wholesome exterior; and and James Byrne discuss their experiences meet Danny Morningstar - rock’n’roller, rebel and of running writing workshops in Cox’s Bazaar, reprobate - whose arrival in Paradise spells trouble Bangladesh, where over one million people for this innocent outpost of the American Dream. survive in precarious conditions having fled By writer/composer Simon Indelicate - from The persecution in Myanmar. Modern Poetry Indelicates whose previous show The Book of Job: in Translation editor Clare Pollard, who The Musical! was a hit at Ledbury Poetry Festival - commissioned an initial feature of Rohingya promises a brilliantly toe-tapping evening. poetry earlier this year, will convene this event Sponsored by Stuart and Wendy Houghton which also includes a contribution from leading Rohingya poet Mayyu Ali.

20 Minutes with… Augusta Laar 6.20pm–6.40pm | Panelled Room, The Master’s House | Free Supported by Herefordshire Libraries

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10. Poetry Breakfast: Welcome to 20 Minutes with… the Hills hosted by Troubadour Hannah Swingler of the Hills Jean Atkin 12.20pm – 12.40pm | Panelled Room, The Under the Market House | 9.30am–10.30am Master’s House | Free £9 including coffee/tea and a croissant Supported by Herefordshire Libraries Troubadour of the Hills, Jean Atkin, launches this celebration of poems about hills, with her 13. Yu Yoyo and A.K. Blakemore commissioned poem One uncertain history of Burgage Hall | 1pm–2pm | £9.50 the Malverns. Come and hear a ‘small mountain’ (weekend pass £18) of these poems, read by the contributors to the Celebrated Szechuanese poet Yu Yoyo reads from Festival’s online call-out for poems, and enjoy a her new book, My Tenantless Body, published by delicious al-fresco breakfast. the Poetry Translation Centre, alongside her poet Sponsored by Ledbury Funeral Services translator A.K. Blakemore. The poems in this sensitive yet forceful selection lead us through the haunted nightscapes of with suitably dark wit, colliding the oblique with the plain-spoken, 11. Dramatic Monologue Workshop their young protagonist forever veering in and out with Clare Pollard of focus. Join us for an unforgettable afternoon 10am–12noon | Community Hall | £20 with this thrilling new poetic voice. Readings will From Ovid to Ai, poets throughout history have be in English and Chinese. used the dramatic monologue to explore empathy Presented in partnership and otherness. It is often a radical form, playing with the Poetry Translation Centre with gender roles; questioning our norms and assumptions; asking what it is to be human (or 14. Writers Walking: not). In this workshop we will experiment with Workshop with Phoebe Power idiolect, dramatic conflict and performance to 2pm–4pm | Meet in the Walled Garden. write new poems, letting others speak through (Walk to the Baptist Hall where the your words. Clare Pollard has written five workshop will continue) | £20 collections of poetry and edits Modern Poetry in Inspired by writer-walkers, hikers and pilgrims Translation. Her latest book is Fierce Bad Rabbits: and by forms such as the haibun, this workshop The Tales Behind Children’s Picture Books. will explore the connection between poetry and wandering. Take a nearby walk and discover 12. Fiona Sampson and Phoebe Power paths, shrines and landmarks in order to create 11am–12noon | Burgage Hall | £9.50 and share new work. Open to all. Fiona Sampson’s poetry has received awards around the world, and is published in 37 languages. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, she’s received an MBE for Services to Literature, various awards and prizes, as well as shortlistings for the T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes. Her forthcoming poetry collection is Come Down. Phoebe Power was a Foyle Young Poet of the Year in 2009. Her debut poetry collection, Shrines of Upper Austria (Carcanet, 2018), is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation, Winner of the 2018 Forward (Felix Dennis) Prize for Best First Collection and shortlisted for the 2018 T.S. Eliot Prize. Sponsored by BRM and LJI

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20 Minutes with… Casey Bailey 20 Minutes with… Nafeesa Hamid 2.20pm–2.40pm | Panelled Room, The 4.20pm–4.40pm | Panelled Room, Master’s House | Free The Master’s House | Free Supported by Herefordshire Libraries Supported by Herefordshire Libraries

15. Ilya Kaminsky and Aleš Šteger, 16. Versopolis Poetry: reading and conversation chaired A European Conversation. by Sandeep Parmar Augusta Laar, Josep Pedrals, Burgage Hall | 3pm–4pm | £9.50 Maja Lee Langvad, Indrė Valantinaitė (weekend pass £18) and Doireann Ní Ghríofa Ilya Kaminsky was born in the former Soviet Burgage Hall | 5pm–6.30pm Union and is now an American citizen. He is the Free but ticketed author of Dancing in Odessa and an eagerly A fascinating exploration of Europe, as seen anticipated new collection forthcoming with by poets from Ireland, Austria, Spain, Denmark Faber & Faber called Deaf Republic. ‘How is it and Lithuania. Each of these poets is highly that one poet can make the silence visible? How respected in their own country, garlanded with is it that one poet can illustrate - and enlighten awards and prizes, and the aim of Versopolis - our collective deafness? Deaf Republic is a is to bring them to the attention of a wider remarkable book of poems from one of the great European audience. Hear them chat about symphonic voices of our times.’- Colum McCann. life and work as a poet in different European Aleš Šteger is a poet and prose writer, based contexts. Hosted by Chloe Garner. in Ljubljana, Slovenia. His work has been widely translated and has found much acclaim among readers around the world. Šteger's texts have appeared in internationally renowned magazines 20 Minutes with… Ben Norris and newspapers such as The New Yorker, TLS 6.20pm–6.40pm | Panelled Room, and many others. He has received many prizes The Master’s House | Free and honours and has been named 'one of the Supported by Herefordshire Libraries most original European poets writing today'. 17. Ledbury Choral Society presents Poetry in Song Doors open at 6.15pm for drinks. Concert at 7pm–8.30pm St Michael’s and All Angels Church | £12 This concert by Ledbury Choral Society journeys through time, starting with Tudor songs and madrigals, including settings by Shakespeare and Henry VIII. Featured poets and composers include W H Auden, Robert Bridges and Walter de la Mare and the twentieth century’s best loved English composers such as Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Britten and Finzi. Interspersed throughout with poetry readings, the concert finishes with settings of Shelley, Tennyson and Byron by Alexander L’Estrange, and with a world premiere by the choral society’s own Music Director and Conductor, Malcolm Macleod.

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18. Community Showcase 21. Film: All Is True 10am–11.30am | Community Hall | Free 101 Minutes / PG – 13 / UK Join some of the participants in the Festival’s 8pm–9.45pm | Market Theatre | £6 vibrant Community Programme who take part Director: Screenplay: in Festival poetry workshops across the county. Cast: , Ian McKellen, Kenneth Branagh The workshops are held in both closed and open After the is destroyed by fire in settings, are inclusive and supportive, and are all 1613, Shakespeare returns to Stratford and his free to attend. Here is an opportunity to showcase family. In this bittersweet drama about the Bard’s the beautiful poetry that has been written within last years, lead player and director Branagh has them, and build budding poets’ confidence! given us a fiercely intelligent film on grief - which Hosted by Festival Manager Phillippa Slinger. Shakespeare must confront as a result of the death of his only son Hamnet. In the words of film critic Tim Robey the film is a “lovely meditation on what parts of a man’s legacy truly matter”. 19. One to Ones with Nigel McLoughlin 10am–12.30pm | Meet at the Box Office £15 per half hour session Develop your writing through an individual session with prize-winning Irish poet Nigel McLoughlin. LENGTH MATTERS PRESENTS: With five collections of poetry including most recently Chora, and significant experience as a PARADISE LOST university teacher and editor of books including 22. Paradise Lost, Part 1 The Portable Poetry Workshop. Monday 8 or Wednesday 10 July Supported by Herefordshire Libraries 12 noon–2.30pm | The Talbot Hotel £9 per event | £16 when booking 20. Sound, Image, Line – Parts 1 and 2 together Building Better Poems, (lunch optional, pre-order on arrival) Workshop with Nigel McLoughlin Enjoy enhanced comfort and lunch over the 2pm–4pm | Community Hall | £20 course of two days with the Length Matters This workshop is designed for those who are team: Sara-Jane Arbury, John Burns and working towards publication of a first collection Martyn Moxley, as they breathe life into John of work. Taking the presented poems as a Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost. With guitar starting point, the workshop will provide detailed accompaniment from Ken Appleby, this spirited and structured feedback and advice on how to reading presents an abridged version of the improve your writing with particular focus on Creation story, the temptation of Adam and Eve, crafting more vivid imagery, making better use of and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. sound and strengthening the poetic line. 23. Paradise Lost, Part 2 Malvern Writers’ Circle Tuesday 9 or Thursday 11 July 2pm–4pm | Trumpet Corner Tearooms 12 noon–2.30pm | The Talbot Hotel Gardens & Gallery, Near Ledbury HR8 2RA £9 per event | £16 when booking Free | Open ‘Mic’ entry contact Secretary Parts 1 and 2 together 01684 566 599 (lunch optional, pre-order on arrival) Join Myfanwy Fox, Peter Sutton and members Continue to enjoy poetic paradise and lunch as for an afternoon of Poetry. Sara-Jane Arbury, John Burns and Martyn Moxley conclude John Milton’s evocative poem Paradise Lost, with complementary music by Ken Appleby.

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24. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and 25. Reading Ivor Gurney Place: A day conference 10am–12noon | Burgage Hall | £9.50 10am–6pm | Burgage Hall | £18 Close reading of a poem by Ivor Gurney, First Between 1809 and 1832 the woman who would World War poet, with particular attention to poetic become one of the nineteenth century’s most style and how it affects the way we interpret the famous poets, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, grew poem. Led by Jean Boase-Beier. up and established her career near Ledbury. 26. In this day conference, a number of experts on Workshop on Translating Barrett Browning will examine the wider idea with Jean Boase-Beier 1pm–3pm | Burgage Hall | £9.50 of place in the poet’s life and work. Individual Group translation of a poem from German (with talks explore the significances of Ledbury, glossary provided, so no knowledge of German and Italy, and Torquay and Jamaica for required), by Paul Celan. The workshop will Barrett Browning and also consider her own begin with some background on the poet and significance for subsequent poets and writers. context for the work, followed by the translation. Talks will be accompanied by readings, by At the end, existing translations are provided so Sharon Eckman (actor and singer) of a range participants can see differences between our joint of works produced both by Barrett Browning translation and others. This session will take in herself and those writers she inspired. some of the ideas explored in the session called Presenters: Simon Avery, Sharon Eckman, Reading Ivor Gurney, on how the style of a poem Laura Fish, Cora Kaplan, Angela Leighton works, but it will not be essential for participants Please visit the Ledbury Poetry Festival to have attended the morning session. website for full descriptions of each event and speaker biographies. 27. Poetry of the Holocaust 6pm–7pm | Burgage Hall | £9.50 10.00–10.30 Coffee Jean Boase-Beier, and co-editor, Marian de 10.30–11.30 Simon Avery (University of Vooght, present this powerful, unique collection Westminster) Elizabeth Barrett in Ledbury: of poems written not only by members of Jewish Portrait of the Poet as a Young Woman. communities (representing the largest group 11.30–12.30 Cora Kaplan (Queen Mary persecuted by the Nazis), but also poems by University of London) From Wimpole Street people who were targeted on other grounds. to Casa Guidi: London and Italy in Elizabeth Some belonged to political or religious groups Barrett Browning’s Life and Imagination. who openly opposed the Third Reich, or they 12.30–14.00 Lunch were homosexual, or members of communities 14.00–15.15 Laura Fish (Northumbria University) such as Sinti and Roma, or they were perceived Elizabeth Barrett Browning in the Mirror: by the Nazis as disabled. Most translations Reflections from Torquay to Jamaica. are specifically for the anthology, or have not 15.15–15.45 Coffee break appeared elsewhere. The poems originate from across Europe and give a sense of the variety of 15.45–17.00 Angela Leighton (University Holocaust victims and their poetic responses. of Cambridge) Women’s Voices After Elizabeth Sponsored by Jim and Mo Dening Barrett Browning: Lost and Found. 17.00–18.00 Reflections from across the day (all speakers). Rounding up by Cora Kaplan and Simon Avery.

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Homend Poets 29. Immersion Day – 6.30pm–8.30pm | Icebytes | Free The Life and Poetry of Bertolt Brecht Local poets read their own work at this informal Burgage Hall | 11am–4pm | £18 music and poetry event. Bring along your own 11am onwards–arrive and coffee poetry or simply relax and listen. Session 1, 11.30am–12.30pm 28. Eleanor Bron: STUFF Tom Kuhn and David Constantine in 8pm–9pm | Burgage Hall | £9.50 discussion on how they got to translate Brecht’s Eleanor Bron reads her work-in-progress. poems, why Brecht the poet matters to us in A woman of advanced years finds herself our times now and what the pleasures and contemplating the accumulations of a lifetime: difficulties of translating him are. This session How did she do? Did she do well? will include some brief survey of Brecht’s life and Will she proceed to Heaven or to Hell? times and of his being translated into English; Eleanor Bron’s career started in satirical cabaret in the abundance and variety of his poetry. the 1960s and continued in Theatre, TV and Radio. Session 2, 1pm–2pm Among her films are Help, Bedazzled, Two for the Translation of a Brecht poem, no knowledge Road, Women In Love, The House of Mirth, The of German necessary. Tom Kuhn and David Heart of Me, A Little Princess. Recent audiobooks Constantine provide two versions of the German include Craig Brown’s Ma’am Darling, and Lud-in- text, one normally spaced, the other with a wide the-Mist by Hope Mirrlees. She has written several gap between the lines in which line by line, word books of memoir, a novel, a song-cycle, verses for by word, a very literal version is written. Then, Carnival of the Animals, and is currently working using that version and continually going back to on a series of short plays in verse. the original, we try to show how the poem works, Sponsored by David and Ann Tombs what constitutes it as a poem (line-lengths, line-breaks, metre or not, rhyme or not, levels of diction, mix of tones etc). The purpose is not, there and then as a group, to produce a satisfactory version but to understand what translating a poem entails – to see what your own language can do or can be made to do. Lunch-break Session 3, 3pm–4pm Close reading of an undated Brecht poem, with German texts and translations by Tom Kuhn and David Constantine. The idea is to derive as much as possible out of the words on the page through a close study of the workings of the poem. Then gradually to move outwards (though always still in touch with the poem) into a reading of it in the context of Brecht’s life, his times and our times now.

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30. Get Ready for 32. Brecht the Poet Now - narrated by Unleashed Young Voices Tom Kuhn and David Constantine and 1pm–2pm | Community Hall illustrated with his poems and songs, Free but ticketed performed by singer Sarah Gabriel An incredible opportunity to hear and witness and pianist Joseph Atkins a selection of young people’s poetry written in 8pm– 9.30pm | Burgage Hall | £9.50 supported workshops with practitioner Toni Cook Celebrating Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) as a poet as part of the Festival’s Community Programme. whose work, rooted in his own day and age, still Feedback from last year: “This is important (like all great poetry) speaks to us in our own poetry from people who might not ordinarily be circumstances now. Brecht was a ‘political poet’ showcased”. Expect raw, direct and beautifully in the sense that he thought it his responsibility, crafted language conveying life as it is. and he had the talent, to address the very urgent This event includes an appearance by the first problems and events of his age. For example: ever Young Poet in Residence at the Eastern war, violent social upheaval, injustice, racism, the Cloisters Project, Hereford Cathedral in displacement of peoples, exile, and the need to partnership with LPF. rebuild a better society out of the ruins. Brecht was also a lover of life, an anarchic hedonist, author of some of the best love poems in the

German language. Brecht the poet now will show him in that light too, as a revolt against any 31. National Poetry ideology that seeks to thwart human beings in Competition Reading 6pm–7pm | Community Hall their pursuit of happiness. Free but ticketed The most recent National Poetry Competition saw 10 prize winners chosen by the judges, from over 14,000 poems. This is your chance to hear readings from three of those fantastic commended and winning poets at Ledbury Poetry Festival. Commended poet Ella Frears, whose pamphlet Passivity, Electricity, Acclivity was published in 2018 by Goldsmiths Press; second prize winner Katie Griffiths, who has previously featured in Primers: Volume One (Nine Arches); and Wayne Holloway-Smith, whose debut collection, Alarum, was published by in 2017, and who won first prize with his poem ‘The posh mums are boxing in the square’.

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33. Documentary Poetry, 36. William Wootten on Philip Larkin Workshop with Sandeep Parmar, 2pm–4pm | Burgage Hall | £9.50 Festival Poet in Residence Dr. William Wootten is a Lecturer in English 10am–12noon | Community Hall | £20 Literature (Poetry & Creative Writing) at the This workshop will engage with poetry that University of Bristol. This event will offer a close- is shaped by the documenting of historical reading opportunity to explore and discuss Philip events and their sources. We will read poems Larkin’s work. by Juliana Spahr, Jay Bernard, Layli Long Sponsored by Bristol Poetry Institute Solider, Solmaz Sharif, M. NourbeSe Philip and Muriel Rukeyser, among others, to develop 37. Talk on The Alvarez Generation our own sense of relation to the sanctioning with William Wootten of official narratives and their interpretations 6pm–7pm | Burgage Hall | £9.50 via documents such as historical records, William Wootten is a literary journalist, writing for definitions, archives and legal testimonies. the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement and the Guardian. He is Lecturer in 34. One to Ones with David Constantine English Literature (Poetry & Creative Writing) at the 10am–12noon and 2pm–4pm University of Bristol. William Wootten’s acclaimed Meet at the Box Office book The Alvarez Generation focuses on poets £15 per half hour session who would, in the words of the introduction to David Constantine has published a dozen Alvarez’s classic anthology The New Poetry, take volumes of poetry, with Helen Constantine he poetry ‘Beyond the Gentility Principle’. This was edited Modern Poetry in Translation, 2003-12 and the generation of Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted he was a university teacher for thirty years. This Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter. William extensive experience enables him to offer useful Wootten explores what these five poets shared feedback and encouragement. in common, their connections, critical reception, Supported by Herefordshire Libraries rivalries and differences, and locates what was new and valuable in their work. 35. Under A Cold Sky: Sponsored by Bristol Poetry Institute The Poetry of Wilfrid Gibson, Ivor Gurney and Jean Atkin 38. Desert Island Poems 11am–12noon | Burgage Hall | £9.50 with Alexei Sayle Gibson’s tram passengers will be coming to 8pm–9pm | Community Hall | £9.50 town: the sallow faced clerks, genteel in black… Comedian, actor, presenter and writer, Alexei and his tale of Anthony Earnshaw asleep in Sayle shares his favourite poems with Jonathan drifting snow. While Gurney shivers in Flanders Davidson. Alexei Sayle’s television work as a and sees Cotswold spinnies and mist on writer and performer includes The Young Ones, meadows. Along the way, if we are lucky, Jean Alexei Sayle’s Stuff, and The All New Alexei Sayle Atkin may introduce us to her Crofter’s recipe - Show. His books include Thatcher Stole My Bessiewalla Yow – to feed us next winter. With Trousers and Mister Roberts. Marilyn Birks the voice of Wilfrid Gibson, Jake Sponsored by Harrison Clark Rickerbys Herbst as Ivor Gurney and Jean Atkin.

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39. The Making of Hush Now Ledbury Poetree with 11am–12noon | Burgage Hall | £9.50 Ledbury Primary School (weekend pass £18) 1.30pm–3pm | Free | The walk will start Earlier this year, Feral Productions and The and finish at The Market House Courtyard presented Hush Now, an arts Come on a walk with pupils from Ledbury Primary and heritage collaboration inspired by the School and hear them perform their poetry at Magdalene Homes and maternity institutions sites of special trees in the town! The children of Herefordshire’s past. Written in a series worked with poet Sara-Jane Arbury to create of nine poems by Sara-Jane Arbury and poems and films inspired by selected trees transformed into songs by composer, Olivia around Ledbury, and explored ways of linking Preye, the production gave voice and visibility their School Values with the local environment. to the resilience of unmarried mothers who were Join our jolly jamboree today and see the children stigmatised, silenced and hidden away. Join performing their poetree! Sara-Jane and Director, Estelle van Warmelo, as they discuss this secret history and the 41. Writing Your Fire: A Workshop creative processes behind the poetry, songs in Ferocious Truth with and performance. Shivanee Ramlochan 2pm–4pm | Baptist Hall | £20 40. Eric Gregory Award Winners In poems, as in everyday life, we often stifle the 1pm–2pm | Burgage Hall | Free but ticketed things we need to say most. This workshop seeks The Eric Gregory Awards consistently identify to remove the muzzles that society – and we promising young poets. Come and hear this ourselves – place on our poems, through reading year’s winners. and analysing the work of Caribbean women poets, plus innovative exercises to generate new writing. Suitable for all expertise levels, contains adult content and language.

42. U A Fanthorpe event with Rosie Bailey and Alison Brackenbury 3pm–4pm | Burgage Hall | £9.50 (weekend pass £18) Alison Brackenbury and R V Bailey introduce Beginner’s Luck, a collection of previously unpublished poems by the late great U A Fanthorpe, who died ten years ago, and whose ninetieth birthday would have been this July. Witty, erudite, humane, Fanthorpe’s poetry – as the celebrated Gillian Clarke put it – ‘changed the way we see, the way we write’.

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43. Festival Showcase: 46. On Reviewing Poetry: John Masefield High School Students, Workshop with Sandeep Parmar, Foyle Young Poets Festival Poet in Residence 5pm–6pm | Burgage Hall | Free but ticketed 10am–12noon | Community Hall | £20 This event showcases poets at all stages of their By looking at examples of recent poetry reviews development: John Masefield High School and sharing thoughts on how (and why) we Students have worked with the school’s poet read poetry, this workshop will explore what in residence Kurly McGeachie to create their constitutes a well-written review. We will also poems. The Foyle Young Poets Award for poets consider what the role of poetry criticism is in aged 11–17 is one of the largest and most our enjoyment and understanding of poetry and prestigious literary prizes and past winners develop a sense of how to read poetry critically include Mukahang Limbu, Lucy Thynne and in a non-academic context. Participants are Phoebe Power who will read tonight. encouraged to bring short reviews, in any form, to the workshop for discussion.

47. World Poets Series: Laura Wittner, 44. Carol Ann Duffy and Friends with Pedro Serrano 6.30pm – 7.30pm | Community Hall | £15 11am–12noon | Burgage Hall | £9.50 Carol Ann Duffy’s Sincerity is a fitting culmination (weekend pass £18) to her time as a Poet Laureate (2009 – 2019). This Mexican poet Pedro Serrano has published five collection, at once intimate and public, is a work collections of poetry. He has been published in the of great power from one of our most cherished UK as part of Arc’s celebrated Visible Poets series, and humane poets. Come and hear Carol Ann in a collection called Peatlands. Wide ranging and Duffy read poems old and new, alongside two passionate poems that are linguistically thrilling; ‘Laureate’s Choice’ poets, Mark Pajak and Keith they explore the world of snakes, swallows, valleys Hutson, whose pamphlets are Spitting Distance and skyscrapers, weariness and love. Laura and Troupers. Keith Hutson’s Bloodaxe collection Wittner was born and lives in Buenos Aires, is Baldwin’s Catholic Geese. Argentina. She has published more than seven collections of poetry and translated Leonard 45. Brian Bilston and Nikita Gill Cohen, Anne Tyler and others into Spanish. She 8pm–9pm | Burgage Hall | £9.50 also writes children’s books. Brian Bilston has been described as the Pedro Serrano sponsored by Mr John Martinez. Banksy of poetry and Twitter’s unofficial Poet Funded through Kickstarter: thanks to Laureate. Diary of a Somebody shows that ‘The , Anthony Garner English comic novel is alive and well… And it comes, of course, with the added bonus of 20 Minutes with… Romalyn Ante 12.20pm–12.40pm | Panelled Room, Bilston’s poetry, sparkling here with its habitual The Master’s House | Free wit, intelligence and humanity.’ – Jonathan Coe. Nikita Gill is a British-Indian writer and poet Supported by Herefordshire Libraries who first shared her poetry on Instagram and now has a combined social media following of over 450,000. Many of her poems were seen adorning placards during the women’s march in 2017. Since then Nikita has published Wild Embers and Fierce Fairytales which received high acclaim. Hosted by Chloe Garner.

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48. Ledbury Poetry 20 Minutes with… Ben Bransfield Competition Winners 4.20pm–4.40pm | Panelled Room, 1pm–2pm | Burgage Hall | Free but ticketed The Master’s House | Free Hosted by 2018 Competition judge Nia Davies, Supported by Herefordshire Libraries who will be joined by all three adult winners: R.T.A. Parker, Pam Thompson and Robbie 50. Owen Sheers Burton, plus winners from the young people 5pm–6pm | Community Hall | £9.50 and children’s categories. The prestigious Owen Sheers is a novelist, poet and playwright, Ledbury Poetry Competition has helped many winner of the 2018 Wilfred Owen Poetry Award. His emerging poets establish their careers. This is an BAFTA nominated film-poem, The Green Hollow unmissable event featuring some of the freshest has recently been published by Faber, who also new voices in poetry. published his BBC film-poem to mark the 70th anniversary of the NHS, To Provide All People and Unicorns, Almost about the life and poetry of WWII poet Keith Douglas. A stage version of Owen’s 20 Minutes with… Aviva Dautch 2.20pm–2.40pm | Panelled Room, verse drama Pink Mist premiered at Bristol Old Vic. The Master’s House | Free He is the author of A Poet’s Guide to Britain, the accompanying anthology to Owen’s BBC 4 series Supported by Herefordshire Libraries and the best-selling Resistance. Conversation 49. Ali Smith’s Poem Selection hosted by Chloe Garner. 3pm–4pm | Community Hall | £12 Sponsored by Best Friend Mrs Carolyn Beves Hear one of Britain’s great writers, Ali Smith, 51. Margaret Atwood Poetry Reading share her best-loved poems with Suzi Feay. Introduced by Ursula Owen Ali Smith is the author of many novels, including 7pm–8pm | Community Hall | £28 most recently Autumn, Winter and Spring in the Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939. acclaimed ‘Seasonal’ quartet. How to be both Canada’s most eminent novelist and poet, she won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the poetry and critical essays. The Handmaid’s Year Award. Tale, Cat’s Eye and Alias Grace have all been Sponsored by Viv Arscott shortlisted for the Booker Prize and she has won many literary prizes in other countries. Her work has been translated into thirty-three languages. Her novel, The Blind Assassin won the 2000 Booker Prize. This is a special opportunity to hear Margaret Atwood read her poems, including from her most recent collection The Door. This event is introduced by Ursula Owen, Founder Director of Virago Press.

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52. Ledbury Poetry Slam! 53. Festival Bike Ride 8.30pm–10.45pm | Market Theatre | £9.50 10.00 am start | Meet under the Market Enjoy a head-spinning cocktail of potent poetry House | Free but ticketed and spirited performances, topped off with a twist Join a leisurely 12 mile bike ride along quiet of wit and a tasty competitive edge! Bard-tenders country lanes with pauses for poetry. Half-way Elvis McGonagall and Sara-Jane Arbury call refreshments at Dragon Orchard for a small the shots as a bevy of fine wordsmiths pour out donation. Return to Ledbury in time to buy vintage verse in a bid to gain prize points. Each your lunch at the Ledbury Celebration Day. poet is marked on three categories - the quality of Accompanied children welcome. Cycle hire their writing, the quality of their performance and next to the railway station. the warmth of the audience response. Ecstatic cheering and Mexican waves ensures that top- notch poetry receives top scores! Poets glow 54. A Walk with the and the applause fizzes until the Slam-pagne star Troubadour of the Hills produces their magnum opus! For further details Start Colwall station WR13 6QH, OS ref or to enter the Slam, please contact Sara-Jane on SO 757 425. Please note, Colwall is 5 miles 07814 830031 or email [email protected] from Ledbury | 10.30am–1pm estimated finish | £9.50 Jean Atkin, Troubadour of the Hills for Ledbury Poetry Festival, leads a walk along Herefordshire paths and woods and up to the summit of Pinnacle Hill, with its magnificent views along the Malverns. The walk will go at a gentle pace, with pauses to listen to poems about walking and landscape. This is a circular walk of about 4 miles distance. Please wear suitable footwear and attire. The meeting point and finishing point is the railway station at Colwall. Limited parking at Colwall station, and there is on-street parking nearby.

55. ‘A little town of ancient grace A long street widened at a market place’ 10am–12noon | Panelled Room, The Master’s House | £6 Visit the Master’s House in the company of the Friends of the Master’s House with a brief slide show to set the building in its historical context and show elements of the recent restoration. Take a short tour throughout the building, finishing in the room that houses the John Masefield Archives where a Society member will explain the archive’s significance and will refer to some of the many poets who have been associated with the town. Led by Peter Carter.

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A Ledbury Celebration! 56. Thomas Dilworth on David Jones: Food, drink, poetry, Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet music and heritage! 11am–12noon | Burgage Hall | £9.50 St Katherine’s Car Park, The story of the eccentric and exceptionally Bye Street, HR8 1EA talented David Jones, who couldn’t wait to go off Food and Drink Market 11am–5pm to the trenches, makes for a fascinating biography Poetry, music and entertainment and is the subject of this talk by Thomas 12noon–5pm Dilworth. ‘Those interested in Jones’s art… or in his singular poetry, will not be disappointed with Ledbury Poetry Festival joins forces with the the careful, delicate way Dilworth connects them Ledbury Fringe, and Ledbury Food Group to his confounding story. But the real joy of his to bring you poetry, music, entertainment book is not analytical. It is that it makes Jones and the best local food and drink! This year’s so vivid.’ Come and hear about the making of event brings an outdoor market to historic St this biography that took thirty years to write. This Katherine’s, next to the 15th century Master’s event will include a Q&A. House. A wide range of local produce will be on sale either to eat and drink “on the go” or to take home to savour in slower time, including local cider and beer. Several of our local Great Taste 20 Minutes with… Margaret Adkins award winners will be pleased to meet you. 12.20pm–12.40pm | Panelled Room, Ledbury Fringe brings a programme of local The Master’s House | Free musicians to the show to entertain you as Supported by Herefordshire Libraries you eat and drink – full details in the Ledbury Fringe brochure. 57. World Poetry Series: Shivanee Join Poetry Pandemonialists Steve Pottinger Ramlochan and Enrique Winter 12.45pm–1.45pm | Burgage Hall | £9.50 and Emma Purshouse as they change the (weekend pass £18) world one poetry gig at a time. Local poetry lover Clova Perez-Corral presents a selection Shivanee Ramlochan is a Trinidadian poet, of her favourite poems. Visit the Poetry critic and book blogger. Her first book of poems, Machine for beautiful intuitive poems crafted Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting (Peepal Tree just for you and typed on a vintage typewriter. Press, 2017) was was shortlisted for the Felix “If poetry could hold your hand, this is what it Dennis Forward Prize for Best First Collection. would feel like”. Prize-winning Chilean author Enrique Winter’s four collections of poetry include Rascacielos Parking available at John Masefield High (Skyscrapers) and Lengua de señas (Sign Tongue). School, HR8 2HF (by donation). Car parks He is also a translator of Emily Dickinson, G. K. in Bye Street (HR8 2AA) and St Katherine’s Chesterton, Philip Larkin and Charles Bernstein. (HR8 1EA) are free all day. Winter is a writer-in-residence at Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá. Funded through Kickstarter: thanks to Loretta Collins Klobah, Adam and Nelly Munthe, Edgar Rubio Windley

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58. 60. Margaret Atwood’s 2pm–3pm | Community Hall | £12 Favourite Poems Celebrated as ‘the most popular and prolific British Chaired by Ursula Owen poet of his generation’ (The Times) and recently 6pm – 7pm | Community Hall | £28 awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry, Margaret Atwood shares her favourite poems Simon Armitage’s latest collection Sandettie Light with Ursula Owen, Founder Director of Virago Vessel Automatic demonstrates his commitment Press. Atwood, who has published with Virago to collaboration, his role as poet of public since 1979, is the author of more than fifty engagement and his belief in poetry as an act of books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her communication. ‘Boundary-breaking... poems of recent novels are The Heart Goes Last and the emotional weight and musical grace from the fabric MaddAddam trilogy – the Giller and Booker of our everyday lives’ – Carol Ann Duffy. Prize-shortlisted Oryx and Crake, The Year of the Sponsored by BRM Flood and MaddAddam. Other novels include The Blind Assassin, winner of the Booker Prize; 20 Minutes with… John Lawrence and Alias Grace, The Robber Bride, Cat’s Eye, 3.20pm–3.40pm | Panelled Room, The Penelopiad – a retelling of the Odyssey – and The Master’s House | Free the modern classic The Handmaid’s Tale – now a Supported by Herefordshire Libraries critically acclaimed television series. Hag-Seed, a novel revisitation of Shakespeare’s play The 59. Ishion Hutchinson and Jay Bernard: Tempest, was published in 2016. Her most recent Poetry Reading and Conversation graphic series is Angel Catbird. In 2017, she was hosted by Sandeep Parmar awarded the German Peace Prize, the Franz Kafka 4pm–5pm | Burgage Hall | £9.50 International Literary Prize, and the PEN Center (weekend pass £18) USA Lifetime Achievement Award. ‘Exquisite’ (New Yorker), ‘breathtaking’ (Los Angeles Times), ‘baroque and moon-lit’ (Boston

Globe) - House of Lords and Commons enthralled readers in the Americas, winning the National Book Critics Circle Award in Poetry and being widely applauded in ‘books of the year’. Ishion Hutchinson was born in Port Antonio, Jamaica. He makes a rare UK appearance, so don’t miss this chance to hear his poetry. Jay Bernard is a The Barn, writer from London. Their work is interdisciplinary, Ledbury – critical, queer and rooted in the archive. They won After-hours the 2018 Ted Hughes Award for Surge: Side A, a Festival Venue cross-disciplinary exploration of the New Cross If you like local beer Fire in 1981. Their first collection, Surge, is a and wine, sassy street ground-breaking work of excavation, memory and food and diverse activism – both political and personal, witness music you will love this and documentary. venue! There will be live 20 Minutes with… entertainment at The Brenda Read-Brown Barn throughout the Festival, 5.20pm–5.40pm | Panelled Room, so after your last Festival event The Master’s House | Free has finished drop by or visit www.facebook.com/LiveInLedbury/ Supported by Herefordshire Libraries (some events might be ticketed)

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Mappa Ledbury Exhibition Quartets – Weavers Gallery Panelled Room | The Master’s House 4–14 July | 10am–5pm Join this artistic celebration of the Ledbury Poetry An exhibition of textile art inspired by T.S.Eliot’s Festival’s Community Programme. Hundreds group of poems. Focusing in particular on the of participants across the county have been four elements of air, earth, water and fire, this will creating poetry and artwork in response to the showcase a wide variety of styles, techniques theme of Mappa Ledbury, taking its inspiration and interpretations. from Herefordshire’s famous Mappa Mundi. The exhibition reflects on place and home with Ledbury Writing Prompt Trail – at its poetic heart. Poems, Pillars and Pews St Michael’s and All Angels Church The Waters of Herefordshire Come and write a poem inspired by one or more Open Door Designs (Between Ceci Paolo of six distinctive features in St Michael’s Church. It and Tusk), High Street, HR8 1DS might be a detail of a 16th century painting of the Open: Monday to Saturday 10am–4pm last supper, a tapestry of St Michael slaying the An exhibition of work by local artists and writers dragon or the tomb of a child. For £3.00 (payable featuring picture books written and illustrated at Church, proceeds to charity) your poem will by Julie Louise Jones, Jose Millak’s intricate be included in an anthology to be on display. linocuts, the local books and the paintings of Refreshments available Tuesday 9th July Valerie McLean, nature inspired glass by Mariana to Thursday 11th July between 2pm and Pavlova, bookbinding by Jane Trevitt, and small 4pm. Trail available normal church hours oils by Philip Weaver. excepting service times. BookArt Exhibition, The Weavers Gallery, Church Lane 5–14 July | 10am–5pm BookArt might be described as artwork being made from deconstructing discarded books, or manipulating the concept of a book into a new original piece. These mixed-media ‘books’ utilise many techniques including printmaking, collage, textiles, calligraphy, clay, photography and paint.

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The Apothecary Shop Starlight Craft Gallery 31 The Homend, Ledbury, HR8 1BN Tel: 01531 633448 Skipp Alley, The Homend, Ledbury, HR8 1BN www.theapothecaryshop.co.uk Mon–Sat 9.30am–5pm. Tel: 01531 631840 www.starlightcraftgallery.co.uk Organic and natural products to promote health and well- [email protected] Tues–Sat 10am–5pm. being, natural remedies, supplements, loose herbs, skin, A treasure trove of affordable British art and craft in a hair, dental and personal care plus in-store therapists. gorgeous Tudor building in Skipp Alley, between the Ceci Paolo Ltd Homend and the short stay car park. 21 High Street, Ledbury, HR8 1DS. ThinK Travel Tel: 01531 632976 www.cecipaolo.com 1 Church Street, Ledbury, Herefordshire, HR8 1DH [email protected] Mon–Sat 9am–5.30pm Tel: 01531 631114 www.thinktravelledbury.co.uk A culinary and lifestyle emporium with Mediterranean and [email protected]. Ledbury’s independent Oriental flavours. This store is dedicated to celebrating the travel agent. We will be happy to plan and tailor your enjoyment of food, wine, fashion and stylish living. holiday to your specific requirements for you to create Chez Pascal those special memories. 8 New Street, Ledbury, HR8 2DX Tel: 07772 550996 The Uncommon Touch [email protected] Friendly French cafe serving light First Floor, Bethesda Physio Clinic, Lodge Cottage, meals, specials and delicious home-made patisserie by The Homend, Ledbury HR8 1AR Tel: 01531 636507 / 07879 Pascal. Lovely courtyard garden. Opening times: Monday to 286544 www.theuncommontouch.co.uk Saturday 9am–5pm, Sunday 7th July 10am–4pm. [email protected]. Appointments available Mon–Fri 10am–7pm & weekends by arrangement. Connections Dress Agency 5 Homend Walk, Ledbury, HR8 1BX Tel: 01531 635316 Diane Fullerton MTI, Professionally Qualified Massage www.connectionsledbury.co.uk, [email protected] Therapist offering personally tailored massage treatments. Mon–Sat 9.30am–4.30pm. Quality clothes sold on behalf of private clients. A fun place to browse, shop and pick up bargains from an amazing array of labels. ACCOMmODATION Handley Organics 5 High Street, Ledbury, HR8 1DS, Tel: 01531 631136 Barton Court [email protected] Mon–Sat 9am–5pm. Colwall, WR13 6HN. Contact Linda Camp Organic fresh fruit and veg plus our own baked produce Tel: 01242 248177 www.bartoncourtonline.co.uk and dried goods to suit most diets. [email protected] John Nash Interiors A Georgian period country estate and house available to rent 18 High Street, Ledbury HR8 1DS, Tel: 01531 635714 for holidays, meetings, celebrations and events. From single to www.johnnash.co.uk, [email protected]. 40 people. A mixture of interesting, beautiful accommodation, Mon–Sat 9am–5pm. Interior design studio specialising in outbuildings, workshop and other event spaces. contemporary furniture and accessories paired with period Orchard House Bed and Breakfast antiques. Leading fabrics, lighting, flooring, wallpapers and The Orchard, South Parade, Ledbury, HR8 2HA paints. All works undertaken from design to completion. Tel: 01531 632294 www.orchardhouseledbury.co.uk [email protected] The Kitchen Cupboard 21 High Street, Ledbury, HR8 1DS Tel: 01531 635603. Orchard House offers luxury B&B accommodation, a few Mon–Sat 9am–5.30pm. A specialist cookshop selling minutes walk from the centre of Ledbury. Walled garden, everything from induction compatible saucepans and heated swimming pool. frying pans to aprons, peppermills, knives, bakeware White House Cottages and numerous gadgets. Aylton, Ledbury, HR8 2RQ. Contact Serena Thirlwell Tel: 01531 670349 www.whitehousecottages.co.uk Ledbury and District Civic Society [email protected] www.ledburycivicsociety.org The Civic Society aims to raise interest in Ledbury and its Five characterful, listed self-catering cottages nestled in surroundings. We run Butcher Row House Museum and tranquil Aylton, just 5 miles from Ledbury. Ideal for relaxing, the Burgage Hall which is available for hire to Community walking and touring. Free parking and WiFi. Groups. Butcher Row House Museum opening times: Dog friendly. 10am–4pm, April–October. Woodside Lodges Country Park Falcon Lane, Ledbury HR8 2JN. Ledbury Books and Maps 20 High Street, Ledbury, HR8 1DS Tel: 01531 670269 www.woodsidelodges.co.uk Tel: 01531 633226 www.ledburybooksandmaps.co.uk [email protected] [email protected]. Mon–Sat 9am–6pm, Self-catering accommodation including bunk house/studio Sundays during Festival 10am–4pm. Independent rooms, camping pods, touring site, fully equipped lodges. bookshop offering a wide range of new titles across all genres. Event bookseller for #LPF2019.

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