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Discover Legally Popular Titles Full Audiobooks in Mysteries & Thrillers, HistoricalThe Ledbury Lamplighters Audiobook by Kerry TombsPlease visit https://fashabooks.com/aff/fashabooks/1455 to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: The Ledbury Lamplighters Author: Kerry Tombs Narrator: Terry Wale Format: Unabridged Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins Language: English Release date: 03-21-11 Publisher: ISIS Soundings Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 8 votes Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Historical Publisher's Summary: On Christmas Eve, 1888, a mysterious stranger arrives in the small Herefordshire market town of Ledbury, intent on a curious mission. A few days later, on New Years Eve, as the Ledbury Lamplighters see out the year by extinguishing the towns lamps, a prominent local businessman is murdered in...2025-05-0205 min
Love Your KitchenDesigning Bespoke Kitchens: Insights from Charlie Smallbone of Ledbury StudioIn this episode of Love Your Kitchen, we welcome Charlie Smallbone, the founder of Smallbone and Devizes and now the MD of Ledbury Studio. Charlie takes us on a journey through his fascinating career, from his early days of buying and selling antiques to his evolution into designing bespoke, luxurious kitchens. With decades of experience, Charlie shares how Ledbury Studio stands out in the industry by creating kitchens that are as functional as they are stylish.Key TakeawaysA truly bespoke kitchen design starts with understanding your client’s lifestyle, whether it’s for ente...2025-03-2741 min
Domesday DelvingDD - Episode 29 - LedburyIn this episode of Domesday Delving, we head to Ledbury in Herefordshire, a manor divided between knights, a priest, a radman, and the all-powerful Bishop of Hereford. But its Domesday entry also tells a tale of land disputes, shifting power, and the slow disappearance of Anglo-Saxon traditions under Norman rule.We’ll uncover why Harold Godwinson is never called King Harold in the Domesday Book, what it meant to be a radman in a changing world, and how a stake in a salt pan at Droitwich linked Ledbury to one of medieval England’s most important industries. And we’r...2025-03-1122 min
Festival 202309. Family Histories: Sarala Estruch and Stephanie Sy-QuiaJoin Sarala Estruch and Stephanie Sy-Quia, friends and fellow Ledbury Critics, as they discuss their debuts.2024-02-2558 min
The Tea & Trails PodcastDanielle Ledbury - Why We Run - 44Danielle Ledbury - Why We Run - Tales Of Fell And Trail Running In The Lake District - Tea & Trails - Episode 44Precision Fuel & Hydration helps athletes crush their fueling and hydration to perform at their best. Use their free Fuel & Hydration Planner to get a plan for your next race.Follow this link to get 15% off your first order: https://visit.pfandh.com/teaandtrailsWe have merch! Check it out at - https://www.summitcrazy.co.uk/teaandtrailsAre you looking for a one-stop place for everything...2023-10-271h 28
Sutton Voices HR1 PodcastThe Ledbury Food Bank - Mark ListerSo how does a Food Bank work? Mark explains how the very effective and greatly valued Food Bank in Ledbury works. It is more than just giving out food.Mark's experience and insight shine's a light on how why Ledbury's Food Bank is of such a great help to many people. Thank you to Mark for finding time in his busy schedule to tell us all about it and how we can all help Ledbury and the many other Food Banks.Keith & MikeMain intro/outro music is 'Beyond the Horizon' by...2023-07-2436 min
Festival 201756 – John HegleyPeace, Love and Potatoes
One of the country’s most popular poets – eccentric and very funny – John Hegley returns to Ledbury!
The reading (and singing) consists largely of poems from John Hegley’s latest book: Verses on Keats, Dickens, Daleks and digging into
memory of childhood days.
Sponsored by
Stuart and Wendy Houghton and
The Feathers Hotel2023-03-1558 min
Festival 201845. A poetic take on life in and out of Squeeze with Chris DiffordChris Difford is co-founder of Squeeze, one of Britain’s best loved bands famous for their hit songs "Cool For Cats", "Up The Junction", "Another Nail In My Heart", "Is This Love" and "Labelled With Love" amongst many others. "Chris will be playing classic Squeeze songs and talking poetry, lyric writing and life lessons in conversation with Jill Abram
Sponsored by The Feathers Hotel, Ledbury
Sponsored by Ledbury Books and Maps2023-02-0249 min
Festival 201834. This Horde of Destructions – new perspectives on Wallace StevensMaitreyabandhu hosts a panel with Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critics, Maryam Hessavi, Srishti Krishnamoorthy-Cavell and Dzifa Benson, discussing Wallace Stevens’ reputation as a poet, and as a man. Includes discussion and readings.
Wallace Stevens introductory video on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np2ce6ZrFoQ
‘Opinion has always been rather sharply divided on Stevens, both as a poet and as a man’ – Helen Vendler
2023-02-0100 min
Festival 201930. Get Ready for Unleashed Young VoicesAn incredible opportunity to hear and witness a selection of young people’s poetry written in supported workshops with practitioner Toni Cook as part of the Festival’s Community Programme. Feedback from last year: “This is important poetry from people who might not ordinarily be showcased”. Expect raw, direct and beautifully crafted language conveying life as it is.
This event includes an appearance by the first ever Young Poet in Residence at the Eastern Cloisters Project, Hereford Cathedral in partnership with Ledbury Poetry Festival.
Contains some strong language
2023-01-291h 03
Festival 201924. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Place: A day conference – Session 3Between 1809 and 1832 the woman who would become one of the nineteenth century’s most famous poets, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, grew up and established her career near Ledbury. In this day conference, part of the Ledbury Poetry Festival, a number of experts on Barrett Browning examine the wider idea of place in the poet’s life and work. Individual talks explore the significances of Ledbury, London and Italy, and Torquay and Jamaica for Barrett Browning and also consider her own significance for subsequent poets and writers. Talks are accompanied by readings of a range of works produced both by Barrett Browning hers...2023-01-2854 minFestival 201924. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Place: A day conference – Session 1Between 1809 and 1832 the woman who would become one of the nineteenth century’s most famous poets, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, grew up and established her career near Ledbury. In this day conference, part of the Ledbury Poetry Festival, a number of experts on Barrett Browning examine the wider idea of place in the poet’s life and work. Individual talks explore the significances of Ledbury, London and Italy, and Torquay and Jamaica for Barrett Browning and also consider her own significance for subsequent poets and writers. Talks are accompanied by readings of a range of works produced both by Barrett Browning hers...2023-01-2857 min
Just A Walk In The Sun with the Hereford Regiment MuseumLedbury, the Lusitania and Prison Lager - one man's storySend us a textIn this month's episode, Col Andy Taylor and Reverend Paul Roberts reveal a family secret, explore the high streets and bye streets of the Herefordshire market town of Ledbury, and follow in the footsteps of Territorial bandsman and prisoner of war, Charles Percy Taylor. Any relation? Listen to find out!Percy Taylor caused havoc in the town as one of the Mafeking Boys before running away to sea, only to return to Ledbury to work at Hopkins Garage and join the Herefordshire Regiment. The war found him more at danger from fri...2022-12-1337 min
The Road To Find OutMark Ledbury: Art, Architecture and PowerWhat is the relationship between visual art and other art forms like theatre and music? How do art historians at Sydney encourage people from all walks of life to think and care about the art world? Harry sits down with Mark Ledbury - an Art History Professor and Director of the Power Institute - to discuss these questions and even consider how the very architecture of buildings at USYD like the Chau Chak Museum are essential to the university’s mission.
Find out more about the brilliant work done by the Power Institute: https://www.powerpublications.com.au...2022-10-2956 min
Festival 202201. Hollie McNish and Michael PedersenThe Ted Hughes Award-winning author of Nobody Told Me, Hollie McNish returns with Slug, a new collection of poetry and prose. From Finnish saunas and soppy otters to grief, grandparents and Kellogg's anti-masturbation pants, Hollie ‘writes with honesty, conviction, humour and love.' (Kae Tempest).
She appears with Michael Pedersen, prize-winning Scottish poet, scribbler, stitcher. He's unfurled two acclaimed collections of poetry and a new poetic prose debut, Boy Friends. His writing has attracted plaudits from voices as luscious as: Irvine Welsh, Jackie Kay, Shirley Manson & Charlotte Church.
Sponsored by Jo Kingham and The Feathers Hotel 2022-07-0452 min
Festival 202204. Sonnets for Albert with Anthony JosephA magical, musically highlighted spoken word performance with poet Anthony Joseph and virtuoso musicians playing improvised jazz. Sonnets for Albert remixes the form in a set of elegies for the poet's father that navigate absentee fatherhood and masculine fragility As a poet, musician and novelist, Anthony Joseph has produced an extraordinary body of work including four critically acclaimed albums, and has been described as ‘the leader of the Black avantgarde in Britain’. Hosted by Ledbury Poetry Critic Jade Cuttle.
Sponsored by Wendy & Stuart Houghton
photo credit: Naomi Woddis2022-07-0456 min
Festival 202211. Nicole Sealey and Kevin YoungA poet who can move from the deeply personal to the mythic and historic without losing the impact of either, American poet Nicole Sealey is the author of Ordinary Beast, finalist for the PEN Open Book Award. Her honours include the 2021 Forward Prize for Best Single Poem. She is the instigator of the world famous Sealey Challenge in which participants read a poetry book a day for the month of August. Kevin Young is The New Yorker’s poetry editor and the director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. He is the author of thirteen books of poet...2022-07-0400 min
Festival 202213. Forrest Gander and James ByrneReadings and conversation ranging across place and displacement, intimacy and loss, self and other.
James Byrne is a poet, editor, translator and visual artist. His most recent poetry collections are
Places you Leave and Of Breaking Glass. He co-edited Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century
and (with the author) he co-translated Libyan poet Ashur Etwebi (Five Scenes from a Failed
Revolution). Forrest Gander writes that Places you Leave is ‘restlessly energetic and politically
insistent…these are knife-sharp glimpses of the world.’ Forrest Gander, a writer and translator with
degrees in geology and literature, was born in the Mojave Desert and liv...2022-07-041h 04
Festival 202214. Sarah Hymas and Jason Allen-PaisantShortlisted for the Ledbury Munthe Poetry Prize for Second Collections, “Water that sings/ through blood and brain” permeates the mesmerizing series of contemplative poems in Sarah Hymas’s melt.
The judges praised the book as ‘A triumph of imagery interweave, human and sea, these moving poems employ lush, melodious language, rhythmic pacing, a hypnotic sense of attentive presence.’ Sarah Hymas is a writer of poetry, short fiction, essays, artistbooks, site specific walks and not so easily definable work. Jason Allen-Paisant’s Thinking with Trees is a radical response to the pastoral and walking traditions, in woods where dogs are welcomed but black men...2022-07-041h 05
Festival 202216. Brian BilstonBrian Bilston has been described as the Banksy of poetry and Twitter’s unofficial Poet Laureate; with over 150,000 followers on social media, Brian has become truly beloved by the online community. His most recent collection, Alexa, What Is There To Know About Love? is described by one reviewer as 'the funniest collection of humorous verse I have seen in a long time'. This event will also preview Brian's forthcoming collection, Days Like These. 'Someone who knows their way round both a joke and a bittersweet narrative' (The Times).
Sponsored by Butler & Sweatman2022-07-0459 min
Festival 202218. 50 Ways to Score a Goal with Brian Bilston
Full of poems that will make you giggle about all things football, including being left out of the World Cup squad, mum's opinion on Messi vs Ronaldo. 50 Ways to Score a Goal and Other Football Poems includes witty chants, a haiku or two, and fun shape poems about the beautiful game.
Laugh together through the Euros or Premier League games, and swap the half-time pundits for puns! 'Bilston is a magician with words' (The Guardian)
2022-07-0453 min
Festival 202219. Reviewing the ReviewsWhat is the Role of the Poetry Critic? How do poetry reviews reflect diversity and the value of poetry in society? Who are they written for?
Panel discussion with Kevin Young, Sandeep Parmar, Sarah Howe and Ledbury Poetry Critic Oluwaseun Olayiwola.
Live streamed to Zoom
Weekend Pass Event
2022-07-041h 02
Festival 202220. Poetry Reading: Alex Dimitrov and Deborah LandauDeborah Landau is a professor and director of the Creative Writing Program at New York University. Her latest collection, Soft Targets follows two others in the US, The Uses of the Body and The Last Usable Hour. Deborah Landau has developed a style of writing poetry that reminds me of Maggie Nelson and Anne Carson, these long poems that feel dreamy because they are so lyrical. This is also her most 'political' book. (Major Jackson) Alex Dimitrov is the author of three books of poems, including Love and Other Poems, Together and by Ourselves, Begging for It, and the chapbook Amer...2022-07-0408 min
ImperfectlyPerfect PodcastBehind The Scenes with Australian TV Personality Karen Ledbury🔔 Subscribe and turn on notifications to stay updated with new episodes.👍🏽 Please leave a review, we appreciate all the support!This episode founder Glenn Marsden chats with Karen Ledbury.One of Australia's most recognised and respected TV Presenters, actress known from the Morning Show, the Daily Edition and the Sydney Weekender. The ultimate travel show which is one of Australia's longest running shows in history. She is a wife, a mum and an absolutely amazing lady and advocate towards Mental Health and our Global Efforts. Getting behind ou...2022-01-2340 minImperfectlyPerfect PodcastBehind The Scenes with Australian TV Personality Karen Ledbury🔔 Subscribe and turn on notifications to stay updated with new episodes.👍🏽 Please leave a review, we appreciate all the support!This episode founder Glenn Marsden chats with Karen Ledbury.One of Australia's most recognised and respected TV Presenters, actress known from the Morning Show, the Daily Edition and the Sydney Weekender. The ultimate travel show which is one of Australia's longest running shows in history. She is a wife, a mum and an absolutely amazing lady and advocate towards Mental Health and our Global Efforts. Getting behind ou...2022-01-2340 min
What The Fartlek PodcastSeries 5 Episode 2: Vicky LedburySeries 5 rolls on and its a good one
Rob chats to ASICS front runner and advocate of 'Back of the Pack' running, the amazing Vicky Ledbury. We talk about her running journey, her running ethos and the big plans she has for the future
The lads ran (sic) Chester Marathon last weekend and set about recording their thoughts on the drive home - please do excuse the recording quality, life got in the way this week so we did the best with the tools we had. Hear all about how they got on with some...2021-10-071h 15
Access Unmissable Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveThe Ledbury Lamplighters: Inspector Ravenscroft Detective Mysteries Book 3 by Kerry TombsPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/513567to listen full audiobooks.
Title: The Ledbury Lamplighters: Inspector Ravenscroft Detective Mysteries Book 3
Series: #3 of Ravenscroft
Author: Kerry Tombs
Narrator: Andrew Cullum
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 7 hours 28 minutes
Release date: July 22, 2021
Genres: Police & Detective
Publisher's Summary:
Inspector Ravenscroft and Constable Tom Crabb return for their most dangerous adventure yet. Perfect for fans of M.R.C. Kasasian, E.S. Thomson, Oscar De Muriel and Karen Charlton. A mysterious stranger arrives in the small Herefordshire market town of Ledbury. He offers a solicitor, Anthony Midwinter, a generous sum to look after a package for him u...2021-07-227h 28
Access Unmissable Full Audiobooks in Mystery, Thriller & Horror, Police & DetectiveThe Ledbury Lamplighters: Inspector Ravenscroft Detective Mysteries Book 3 by Kerry TombsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/513567 to listen full audiobooks. Title: The Ledbury Lamplighters: Inspector Ravenscroft Detective Mysteries Book 3 Series: #3 of Ravenscroft Author: Kerry Tombs Narrator: Andrew Cullum Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 28 minutes Release date: July 22, 2021 Genres: Police & Detective Publisher's Summary: Inspector Ravenscroft and Constable Tom Crabb return for their most dangerous adventure yet. Perfect for fans of M.R.C. Kasasian, E.S. Thomson, Oscar De Muriel and Karen Charlton. A mysterious stranger arrives in the small Herefordshire market town of Ledbury. He offers a solicitor, Anthony Midwinter, a generous sum to look after a package for h...2021-07-2203 min
That's Theatre DarlingSJ Ledbury: Company Stage ManagerThis week I am delighted to introduce you to a wonderful human being and Company Stage Manager extraordinaire, SJ Ledbury! Coming from a very theatrical childhood, she vowed that she absolutely did not want to work in theatre…but against all odds she couldn’t stay away! The passion in which she speaks about her job is just an absolute joy to hear, and I could honestly listen to her speak about it for hours on end. She took me by surprise with a very unexpected (but brilliant) piece of advice for people who work in theatre, you’ll have t...2021-06-081h 13
Deep in the Weeds - A Food Podcast with Anthony HuckstepBrett Graham (The Ledbury) - Build it againAfter running one of the world’s best restaurants and reaching number 10 in the world, Brett Graham (The Ledbury) realised what he had worked so hard to build was jeopardy when the pandemic landed. With a venue incapable of function with social distancing in any form and uncertainty around the opening up of society he was left with no choice but to close. But with a never-say-die attitude he has taken the opportunity to explore new ingredients, and the agricultural side associated with food production with astounding results.https://www.theledbury.com/the-chef/...2021-05-0945 min
INTO UK OpsINTO City - Embedding of Employability with Karen Bridges and Rob LedburyKaren Bridges, Rob Ledbury and Matt Evans discuss some of the upcoming developments at INTO City in relation to embedding of employability experiences, skills and competency development within the pathway programmes at INTO City from September 2021.2021-04-1314 min
FriendlessKelsey LedburyThis week on Friendless, I unfriend my old Bowness High School classmate Kelsey Ledbury. Kelsey and I talk about reevaluating dreams, when the show shouldn’t go on, running away to paradise, artists with jobs, how to make friends at work, and singing Monty Python in Science class.Don't forget to sign up for the montly newsletter HERE And get a copy of BU TT HE AD hereSupport the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/friendlesspod)2021-02-0233 min
The VerbThe Ledbury FestivalThis week we celebrate the spirit of the Ledbury Poetry Festival. With a distinctly international programme, Ledbury is one of the best-loved events in the UK literary calendar. The festival has been, like many events, sadly cancelled this year. Ian McMillan is joined by Sandeep Parmar of the Ledbury Festival Board and just a few of the poets who would have appeared at the 2020 event; Carolyn Forché, Kaveh Akbar and Juana Adcock.As part of the festival programme, Carolyn Forché was going to be in conversation with Sandeep, so here we give Sandeep a chance to ask ju...2020-07-0348 min
Podcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry FestivalElizabeth Parker – Poetry Salon 11th Feb 2020Elizabeth Parker grew up in a garden nursery in The Forest of Dean and now lives in Bristol. Her poetry has been published in various journals including Magma, The Stony Thursday Book, The Interpreter’s House and Agenda. Among others, she has been shortlisted for The Bridport Poetry Prize and The Gregory O’Donoghue Poetry Prize. She was a prizewinner in the 2016...
The post Elizabeth Parker – Poetry Salon 11th Feb 2020 appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2020-02-1300 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry FestivalJonathan Edwards – Poetry Salon 10th Dec 2019Gen Winner of the People’s Choice Award, Wales Book of the Year 2019, Gen contains humour, warmth and is a worthy follow-up to Ledbury Poetry Competition winner, Jonathan Edwards’ popular and critically-lauded debut. Gen is a book of lions and rock stars, street parties and servants, postmen and voices. In the opening sequence’s exploration of...
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The Glossy PodcastLedbury CEO Paul Trible: We credit our wholesale partners when we make a DTC online saleWith the recession in full swing, 2009 was a tough year to start a luxury brand, as Ledbury CEO and co-founder Paul Trible knows.But Ledbury bet on luxury, at a price range that invited both younger customers to step up their wardrobe, and older ones to save money, compared to what they were buying. "That's anywhere between $125 to $185," Trible said on the Glossy Podcast. "It's still expensive for folks, but what we saw very early on is we were pulling people down from Canali and Zegna and Eton, people who were spending usually $250 or $300 a shirt."2019-11-1335 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry FestivalHome on the Move – Poetry Salon 4 October 2019Launch of the new anthology, Home on the Move: Two Poems go on a Journey. Featuring Jim Dening, Margaret Adkins, Jacqui Rowe, Home on the Move explores notions of ‘home’ that are challenged and reshaped by unprecedented migration. The anthology interrogates ideas of home, belonging and language from poetic perspectives. The creative responses are the...
The post Home on the Move – Poetry Salon 4 October 2019 appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-10-1700 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival01. Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize for Second CollectionsThe judges, Linda Gregerson and Lachlan Mackinnon, announced the winner of this prestigious prize (with a £5,000 purse). Hear the vibrant, diverse collections by the shortlisted poets: James Womack, David Tait, Rory Waterman, A.K. Blakemore, Danez Smith and Adam O’Riordan.
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Festival 201901. Ledbury Forte Poetry Prize for Second CollectionsThe judges, Linda Gregerson and Lachlan Mackinnon, announced the winner of this prestigious prize (with a £5,000 purse).
Hear the vibrant, diverse collections by the shortlisted poets: James Womack, David Tait, Rory Waterman, A.K. Blakemore, Danez Smith and Adam O’Riordan.
2019-07-061h 11Podcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival02. Roger McGough joinedupwritingRoger McGough, one of Britain’s best-loved poets, is the author of over seventy books of poetry and editor of numerous anthologies. 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...
The post 02. Roger McGough joinedupwriting appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival04. German Translation DuelTwo poet-translators use their pens as swords in this duel of words. Join Clare Pollard as Jen Calleja and Annie Rutherford’s translations of contemporary German poet Odile Kennel battle it out. A translation duel is a great way to learn about the dangers and thrills of translation! Sponsored by Alison and Nigel Falls In partnership...
The post 04. German Translation Duel appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival05. Andrew Motion and Hannah Sullivan, readings and conversationFor this fascinating event one of Britain’s most revered and celebrated poets, Andrew Motion and dazzling newcomer Hannah Sullivan will read their poems an05. Andrew Motion and Hannah Sullivan, readings and conversationd interview each other about their work. They share similarities – particularly the long-form approach and the autobiographical qualities of their poetry. Andrew Motion...
The post 05. Andrew Motion and Hannah Sullivan, readings and conversation appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival07. Reprieve readings hosted by Clive Stafford Smithwith Roy McFarlane, Jane Commane, Jacqueline Saphra, Casey Bailey, Ruth Stacey, Vidyan Ravinthiran and David Morley In a unique collaboration, Ledbury Poetry Festival and Reprieve commissioned seven poets to write a poem inspired by Guantánamo Bay. Reprieve founder and respected human rights lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith OBE introduces this event and gives a personal insight...
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Festival 201907. Reprieve readings hosted by Clive Stafford Smithwith Roy McFarlane, Jane Commane, Jacqueline Saphra, Casey Bailey, Ruth Stacey, Vidyan Ravinthiran and David Morley
In a unique collaboration, Ledbury Poetry Festival and Reprieve commissioned seven poets to write a poem inspired by Guantánamo Bay. Reprieve founder and respected human rights lawyer, Clive Stafford Smith OBE introduces this event and gives a personal insight into the work of this courageous and dedicated charity. Then these diverse and brilliant poets read their commissioned poems for the first time.
Reprieve is an organisation that uncovers and exposes extreme human rights abuses committed by the powerful against the powerless, working to c...2019-07-0659 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival08. I am a Rohingya – discussion and readingHow does poetry emerge from one of the largest refugee camps in the world? What is artistic expression to a traumatised, displaced people, often denied the most basic education? I am a Rohingya is the launch of the first anthology of Rohingya poetry published in English (Arc Publications, 2019). Editors Shehzar Doja and James Byrne...
The post 08. I am a Rohingya – discussion and reading appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival12. Fiona Sampson and Phoebe PowerFiona 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...
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Festival 201912. Fiona Sampson and Phoebe PowerFiona 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. https...2019-07-0649 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival13. Yu Yoyo and A.K. BlakemoreCelebrated Szechuanese poet Yu Yoyo reads from her new book, My Tenantless Body, published by the Poetry Translation Centre, alongside her poet translator A.K. Blakemore. The poems in this sensitive yet forceful selection lead us through the haunted nightscapes of China with suitably dark wit, colliding the oblique with the plain-spoken, their young protagonist forever veering...
The post 13. Yu Yoyo and A.K. Blakemore appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival15. Ilya Kaminsky and Aleš Šteger, reading and conversation chaired by Sandeep ParmarIlya Kaminsky was born in the former Soviet Union and is now an American citizen. He is the author of Dancing in Odessa and an eagerly anticipated new collection forthcoming with Faber & Faber called Deaf Republic. ‘How is it that one poet can make the silence visible? How is that one poet can illustrate...
The post 15. Ilya Kaminsky and Aleš Šteger, reading and conversation chaired by Sandeep Parmar appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival16. Versopolis PoetryWith Augusta Laar, Josep Pedrals, Maja Lee Langvad, Indre Valantinaite and Doireann Ní Ghríofa. A fascinating exploration of Europe, as seen by poets from Ireland, Austria, Spain, Denmark and Lithuania. Each of these poets is highly respected in their own country, garlanded with awards and prizes, and the aim of Versopolis is to bring them...
The post 16. Versopolis Poetry appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival18. Community ShowcaseJoin some of the participants in the Festival’s vibrant Community Programme who take part in Festival poetry workshops across the county. The workshops are held in both closed and open settings, are inclusive and supportive, and are all free to attend. Here is an opportunity to showcase the beautiful poetry that has been written within...
The post 18. Community Showcase appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival24. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Place: A day conference – Session 1Between 1809 and 1832 the woman who would become one of the nineteenth century’s most famous poets, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, grew up and established her career near Ledbury. In this day conference, part of the Ledbury Poetry Festival, a number of experts on Barrett Browning examine the wider idea of place in the poet’s life...
The post 24. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Place: A day conference – Session 1 appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival24. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Place: A day conference – Session 2Between 1809 and 1832 the woman who would become one of the nineteenth century’s most famous poets, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, grew up and established her career near Ledbury. In this day conference, part of the Ledbury Poetry Festival, a number of experts on Barrett Browning examine the wider idea of place in the poet’s life...
The post 24. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Place: A day conference – Session 2 appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival24. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Place: A day conference – Session 3Between 1809 and 1832 the woman who would become one of the nineteenth century’s most famous poets, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, grew up and established her career near Ledbury. In this day conference, part of the Ledbury Poetry Festival, a number of experts on Barrett Browning examine the wider idea of place in the poet’s life...
The post 24. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Place: A day conference – Session 3 appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival24. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Place: A day conference – Session 4Between 1809 and 1832 the woman who would become one of the nineteenth century’s most famous poets, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, grew up and established her career near Ledbury. In this day conference, part of the Ledbury Poetry Festival, a number of experts on Barrett Browning examine the wider idea of place in the poet’s life...
The post 24. Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Place: A day conference – Session 4 appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival27. Poetry of the HolocaustJean Boase-Beier, and co-editor, Marian de Vooght, present this powerful, unique collection of poems written not only by members of Jewish communities (representing the largest group persecuted by the Nazis), but also poems by people who were targeted on other grounds. Some belonged to political or religious groups who openly opposed the Third Reich, or...
The post 27. Poetry of the Holocaust appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival29. Immersion Day – The Life and Poetry of Bertolt BrechtSession 1 Tom Kuhn and David Constantine in discussion on how they got to translate Brecht’s poems, why Brecht the poet matters to us in our times now and what the pleasures and difficulties of translating him are. This session included some brief surveys of Brecht’s life and times and of his being translated into...
The post 29. Immersion Day – The Life and Poetry of Bertolt Brecht appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival30. Get Ready for Unleashed Young VoicesAn incredible opportunity to hear and witness a selection of young people’s poetry written in supported workshops with practitioner Toni Cook as part of the Festival’s Community Programme. Feedback from last year: “This is important poetry from people who might not ordinarily be showcased”. Expect raw, direct and beautifully crafted language conveying life as it...
The post 30. Get Ready for Unleashed Young Voices appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival31. National Poetry Competition ReadingThe most recent National Poetry Competition saw 10 prize winners chosen, from over 14,000 poems, by the judges. This is your chance to hear readings from three of those fantastic winning and commended poets at Ledbury Poetry Festival: Commended poet Ella Frears, whose pamphlet Passivity, Electricity, Acclivity was published in 2018 by Goldsmiths Press; second...
The post 31. National Poetry Competition Reading appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival32. Brecht the poet now performanceNarrated by Tom Kuhn and David Constantine and illustrated with his poems and songs. Directed and performed by Sue Parrish. Music performed by singer Sarah Gabriel and pianist Joseph Atkins. Celebrating Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) as a poet whose work, rooted in his own day and age, still (like all great poetry) speaks to us in...
The post 32. Brecht the poet now performance appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival35. Under A Cold Sky: The poetry of Wilfrid Gibson, Ivor Gurney and Jean AtkinGibson’s tram passengers will be coming to town: the sallow faced clerks, genteel in black…and his tale of Anthony Earnshaw asleep in drifting snow. While Gurney shivers in Flanders and sees Cotswold spinnies and mist on meadows. Along the way, if we are lucky, Jean Atkin may introduce us to her Crofter’s recipe – Bessiewalla...
The post 35. Under A Cold Sky: The poetry of Wilfrid Gibson, Ivor Gurney and Jean Atkin appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival37. Talk on The Alvarez Generation with William WoottenWilliam Wootten is a literary journalist, writing for the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement and the Guardian. He is Lecturer in English Literature (Poetry & Creative Writing) at the University of Bristol William Wootten’s acclaimed book The Alvarez Generation focuses on poets who would, in the words of the introduction to A....
The post 37. Talk on The Alvarez Generation with William Wootten appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival38. Desert Island Poems with Alexei SayleComedian, actor, presenter and writer, Alexei Sayle shares his favourite poems with Jonathan Davidson. Alexei Sayle’s television work as a writer and performer includes The Young Ones, Alexei Sayle’s Stuff, and The All New Alexei Sayle Show. His books include Thatcher Stole My Trousers and Mister Roberts.
The post 38. Desert Island Poems with Alexei Sayle appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival39. The Making of: Hush NowEarlier this year, Feral Productions and The Courtyard presented Hush Now, an arts and heritage collaboration inspired by the Magdalene Homes and maternity institutions of Herefordshire’s past. Written in a series of nine poems by Sara-Jane Arbury and transformed into songs by composer, Olivia Preye, the production gave voice and visibility to the resilience of...
The post 39. The Making of: Hush Now appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival40. Eric Gregory Award WinnersThe Eric Gregory Award is a literary award given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submission. The awards are up to a sum value of £24,000 annually. The award is the result of a bequest made in 1959 by Eric Craven Gregory (also known as Peter Gregory), chairman of publishers Lund Humphries, from his estate to the Incorporated Society of...
The post 40. Eric Gregory Award Winners appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival42. UA Fanthorpe event with RV Bailey and Alison BrackenburyAlison 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 post 42. UA Fanthorpe event with RV Bailey and Alison Brackenbury appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival43. Festival Showcase: John Masefield High School Students, Foyle Young PoetsThis event showcases poets at all stages of their development: John Masefield High School Students have worked with the school’s poet in residence Kurly to create their poems. The Foyle Young Poets Award for poets aged 11 – 17 is one of the largest and most prestigious literary prizes and past winners include Mukahang Limbu,...
The post 43. Festival Showcase: John Masefield High School Students, Foyle Young Poets appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival45. Brian Bilston and Nikita GillBrian Bilston has been described as the Banksy of poetry and Twitter’s unofficial Poet Laureate. Diary of a Somebody shows that ‘The English comic novel is alive and well… And it comes, of course, with the added bonus of Bilston’s poetry, sparkling here with its habitual wit, intelligence and humanity.’ – Jonathan Coe. Nikita Gill...
The post 45. Brian Bilston and Nikita Gill appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival47. World Poets Series: Laura Wittner, with Pedro SerranoMexican poet Pedro Serrano has published five collections of poetry. He has been published in the UK as part of Arc’s celebrated Visible Poets series, in a collection called Peatlands. Wide ranging and passionate poems that are linguistically thrilling; they explore the world of snakes, swallows, valleys and skyscrapers, weariness and love. Laura Wittner was...
The post 47. World Poets Series: Laura Wittner, with Pedro Serrano appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival48. Ledbury Poetry Competition WinnersHosted by 2018 Competition judge Nia Davies, who was joined by all three adult winners R.T.A. Parker, Pam Thompson and Robbie Burton, plus winners from the young people and children’s categories. One of the young people appearing is Georgie Woodhead, who won 2nd place in the young person’s category and who also happens to be...
The post 48. Ledbury Poetry Competition Winners appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival49. Ali Smith’s Poem selectionHear one of Britain’s great writers, Ali Smith share her best-loved poems with Suzi Feay. Ali Smith is the author of many novels, including most recently Autumn, Winter and Spring in the acclaimed ‘Seasonal’ quartet. How to be both won the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction, the Goldsmiths Prize and the Costa Novel of the...
The post 49. Ali Smith’s Poem selection appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival50. Owen SheersOwen Sheers is a novelist, poet and playwright, winner of the 2018 Wilfred Owen Poetry Award. His BAFTA nominated film-poem, The Green Hollow has recently been published by Faber, who also 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...
The post 50. Owen Sheers appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival51. Margaret Atwood Poetry ReadingIntroduced by Ursula Owen Margaret Atwood was born in Ottawa in 1939. Canada’s most eminent novelist and poet, she is the author of more than thirty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. The Handmaid’s Tale, Cat’s Eye and Alias Grace have all been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and she has won many literary prizes in other countries. Her...
The post 51. Margaret Atwood Poetry Reading appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry FestivalPop-up event featuring Kickstarter PoetsThis was an extra event to showcase the overseas poets who the Poetry Festival were able to bring to The UK for this year’s festival thanks to funding raised by a Kickstarter campaign earlier in the year. In addition there was an open mic slot where a number of other poets were able to showcase...
The post Pop-up event featuring Kickstarter Poets appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival56. Thomas Dilworth on David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, PoetThe story of the eccentric and exceptionally talented David Jones, who couldn’t wait to go off to the trenches, makes for a fascinating biography and is the subject of this talk by Thomas Dilworth. ‘Those interested in Jones’s art…or in his singular poetry, will not be disappointed with the careful, delicate way Dilworth connects them...
The post 56. Thomas Dilworth on David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival57. World Poetry Series: Shivanee Ramlochan and Enrique WinterShivanee Ramlochan is a Trinidadian poet, critic, and book blogger. Her first book of poems, Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting (Peepal Tree Press, 2017) was was shortlisted for the Felix Dennis Forward Prize for Best First Collection. Prize-winning Chilean author Enrique Winter’s four collections of poetry include Rascacielos (Skyscrapers) and Lengua de señas (Sign Tongue). He is also a translator of Emily...
The post 57. World Poetry Series: Shivanee Ramlochan and Enrique Winter appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival59. Ishion Hutchinson and Jay Bernard: Poetry Reading and conversationHosted by Sandeep Parmar ‘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...
The post 59. Ishion Hutchinson and Jay Bernard: Poetry Reading and conversation appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival60. Margaret Atwood’s Favourite PoemsMargaret Atwood shares her favourite poems with Ursula Owen, Founding Director of Virago Press. Atwood, who has published with Virago since 1979, is the author of more than fifty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. Her recent novels are The Heart Goes Last and the MaddAddam trilogy – the Giller and Booker Prize-shortlisted Oryx...
The post 60. Margaret Atwood’s Favourite Poems appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-07-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry FestivalDavid Morley – Poetry Salon 19th March 2019David Morley won the Ted Hughes Award for New Poetry for The Invisible Gift: Selected Poems and a Cholmondeley Award for his contribution to poetry. His Carcanet collections include The Magic of What’s There, The Gypsy and the Poet, Enchantment and The Invisible Kings. In 2018 he was elected a Fellow of The Royal Society...
The post David Morley – Poetry Salon 19th March 2019 appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-04-0500 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry FestivalNigel McLoughin – Poetry Salon, 12 February 2019Nigel McLoughlin is a prize-winning Northern Irish poet with five collections of poetry in print including most recently Chora, and significant experience as an editor of anthologies and literary journals and books including The Portable Poetry Workshop. His work was selected for inclusion on The Poetry Archive and was elected a Fellow of the RSA...
The post Nigel McLoughin – Poetry Salon, 12 February 2019 appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2019-03-0200 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry FestivalJean Boase-Beier – Poetry Salon, 27 November 2018Jean Boase-Beier is a translator of German poetry including collections by modern German poets Ernst Meister, Rose Ausländer, and Volker von Törne. She is Professor Emerita of Literature and Translation at the University of East Anglia, where she founded the MA in Literary Translation. Recent publications include Translating the Poetry of the Holocaust and The...
The post Jean Boase-Beier – Poetry Salon, 27 November 2018 appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2018-12-0600 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry FestivalAngela France – Poetry Salon 23rd October 2018Angela France’s publications include Occupation, Lessons in Mallemaroking, Hide and The Hill of which Sheenagh Pugh said “Exuberant, controlled, angry, elegiac, this is a poetry of landscape, politics, witness”. Angela teaches creative writing at the University of Gloucestershire and in various community settings. She runs a reading series in Cheltenham, ‘Buzzwords’.
The post Angela France – Poetry Salon 23rd October 2018 appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2018-11-0800 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry FestivalTroubadour of the HillsJean Atkin has been appointed as Troubadour of the Hills in collaboration with the Malvern Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. In an event held on National Poetry Day, 4th October 2018, Ledbury Poetry Director Chloe Garner introduces the project and Jean to a small assembly in Ledbury Books and Maps bookshop. This event was during...
The post Troubadour of the Hills appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2018-10-0800 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival01. Festival Launch! Showcase and Celebration!This event showcases poets at all stages of their development. Starting with John Masefield High School pupils. Then Foyle Young Poets Ankita Saxena, Jade Cuttle and Charlotte Wetton. Plus renowned poets appearing at the Festival, including Major Jackson, Zaffar Kunial and Joelle Taylor. Host Brenda Read-Brown
The post 01. Festival Launch! Showcase and Celebration! appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2018-07-0100 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival02. Jackie KayOne of Scotland’s most celebrated writers, reading and talking about her new collection Bantam. ‘Jackie Kay depicts a world of grief, joy, love and humour in the sparest terms’ (The Guardian). Read the full review here Sponsored by BRM (Apologies for the poor recording quality)
The post 02. Jackie Kay appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2018-07-0100 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival03. Joelle Taylor and Sabrina MahfouzTwo supreme performers and a relaxed Friday night atmosphere! ‘Joelle Taylor’s a shape-shifter, mythmaker, linguistic risk-taker, poetical activist, surrealist with a raised fist’ (Patience Agbabi). Sabrina Mahfouz is ‘in quite a different league..she speaks lyrically and powerfully…a real find’ (The Times).
The post 03. Joelle Taylor and Sabrina Mahfouz appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2018-07-0100 minPodcast Archive – Ledbury Poetry Festival05. Refugee Tales with Patrick Gale and Jackie KayShowcasing an anthology in which poets and novelists retell the stories of asylum seekers who have suffered at the hands of Britain’s policy of ‘indefinite detention’. In Refugee Tales, poets and novelists retell the true stories of asylum seekers who’ve suffered at the hands of Britain’s policy of ‘indefinite detention’, in the form of a...
The post 05. Refugee Tales with Patrick Gale and Jackie Kay appeared first on Ledbury Poetry Festival.2018-07-0100 min
Festival 201808. Helen Dunmore TributeHosted by Neil Astley, Editor of Bloodaxe Books, this event will celebrate Helen Dunmore's life, work and particularly her poetry.
Helen Dunmore was a great supporter of Ledbury Poetry Festival, coming many times to read, and she contributed a poem to the Festival’s 20th anniversary anthology with a message saying “Ledbury Poetry Festival stores up the essence of poetry throughout its packed, intense and sunlit days.”
Featuring poets including Philip Gross, Angela France, Sara-Jane Arbury, Ruth Stacey, Sarah James, Kathy Pimlott, Elisabeth Sennett Clough, Shauna Darling Robertson, Lesley Ingram and admirers including Ursula Owen and Adam Munthe.
Please note due to...2018-07-0159 min
SMART CounselHuman Growth and Development with Katie LedburyRhys and Josh interview Katie Ledbury about Human Growth and Development, both the concept, and the class. Why study human growth at all? What is its relevance to the work of counselors, social workers and prescribers? What are the most helpful ways to understand the dynamic, life-long growth process of a person? We tackle all these questions and more. In particular, we critique the practice of studying the psycho-social stages of Erik Erikson. We note that Erikson understoond human growth through multiple lenses of privilege and note the limits of that perspective and further discuss whether or not and to...2018-01-1851 min
SMART CounselClinical Boundaries with Katie LedburyRhys and Josh interview Katie Ledbury LPC, LMHC about clinical boundaries. In this episode, we explore healthy boundaries with clients and how to maintain those boundaries in healthy ways. We touch on transference, counter-transference and self-disclosure and work to provide practical helps for providers.
This episode features the following speakers:
Rhys Pasimio - www.newpatterncounseling.com
Joshua Moore - www.altbehtherapy.com
Katie Ledbury - katie@pnwbh.com, www.pnwbh.com
The Master’s in Counseling program at Multnomah University, Alternative Behavioral Therapy and New Pattern Counseling present this podcast as a resource for aspiring and current professionals, as well as...2017-12-1326 min
Modern Poetry in TranslationTranslation Duel at Ledbury Poetry Festival! Olivia McCannon vs Susan WicksTwo poet-translators rattle their sabres for a duel of words and French poetry! Listen to MPT's translation duel which took place at Ledbury Poetry Festival, Sunday 9 July 2017. Olivia McCannon and Susan Wicks went head-to-head with their translations of a poem by Ariane Dreyfus. *No poets were harmed in the production of this event*.
About the translators:
Olivia McCannon is a translator of Balzac and winner of the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Susan Wicks’ translations of Valérie Rouzeau have won prizes and her own seventh collection, The Months was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.2017-07-1652 min
Festival 201701 – 21 Years of Ledbury Poetry FestivalShowcase and Celebration
This event showcases poets at all stages of their development: John Masefield High School Students have worked with the school’s poet in residence Brenda Read-Brown to create their poems. The Foyle Young Poets Award for poets aged 11–17 is one of the largest and most prestigious literary prizes and past winners include Theophilus Kwek, Richard Osmond and Mary Anne Clark who read tonight.
Established poets include Fiona Sampson, recently made an MBE for services to literature and current Herefordshire poet in residence whose latest collection is The Catch; Alison Brackenbury whose ninth collection of poetry is called Skies a...2017-07-011h 28
Festival 201712 – Ledbury Poetry Competition WinnersHosted by Imtiaz Dharker, with guest appearance from previous winner Jacqueline Saphra.
The prestigious Ledbury Poetry Competition has helped many emerging poets including Jacob Polley who won the 2016 T.S. Eliot Prize. ‘
Winning the Ledbury Poetry Competition in 2001 gave me a huge boost. I’d never won anything, and the confidence the win gave me pushed me forward, towards more poems, my first book and beyond.’
Sponsored by Severn Print2017-07-0141 min
Festival 2017John Masefield InspiresJoin the Herefordshire Stanza Poets in the Baptist Hall as they mark the 50th Anniversary of the death of Ledbury’s Poet Laureate as they read their own poems inspired by his life and writings.
2017-07-0132 min