‘Winter Words’

 
Four days of poetry, performance and creative sparkle running from Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 November across venues in Ledbury.
 

Celebrating imagination, creativity and community spirit, Winter Words celebrates the joy of words and coming together, uniting some of the UK’s most exciting voices on the poetry scene with plenty of free events and family fun.
 
Festival Highlights Include:
 
UK Poet Laureate Simon Armitage shares his new collection, New Cemetery. Ledbury Poetry is offering Ledbury residents a FREE ticket to this event, but be quick, this offer ends on Monday, 3 November -  this project is part-funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
 
Carol Ann Duffy and John Sampson present Christmas Ghosts – a spookily enchanting evening of poetry and music. Your ticket includes mulled wine or apple juice.
 
Len Pennie, Sunday Times bestselling author and performance poet sensation, as seen on Instagram and YouTube, showcases her fiercely honest second collection, Poyums Annaw, confronting violence, patriarchy, and injustice with tenderness, quick wit, and righteous fury. 
 
Ledbury Poetry’s Community Steering Group, made up of local members of the community, have curated a series of events by and for the community, ranging from free sing-a-longs, card making and protest poetry with viral sensation Louise Fazakerley.