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Tickets still available for Jackie Kay, Liz Berry, Jo Shapcott, Miles Jupp, Wendy Cope, Chris Difford, Henry Normal, Sinéad Morrissey, Mark Doty, Hollie McNish, Michael Palin and many more!

New perspectives on poets including Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Emily Dickinson and Wallace Stevens. Plus immerse yourself further in Wallace Stevens' poem The Man with the Blue Guitar and hear American poet Mark Doty read and talk about how his work is inspired by Wallace Stevens. Poems in Celebration of Martin Luther King with Jackie Kay, Major Jackson and Zaffar Kunial. Refugee Tales with Patrick Gale and Zaffar Kunial. Poet Matthew Clegg on Derek Walcott. Poets gathering to celebrate Helen Dunmore include Philip Gross, Angela France, Sara-Jane Arbury, Ruth Stacey and Sarah James. Plus actor and national treasure Michael Palin reading poems by Adrian Mitchell with songs and music from Sasha Mitchell and Peter Moser. And an exploration of Latin American poetry with editor and translator Richard Gwynn and Colombian poet George Mario Angel Quintero. 

Jackie Kay solo reading, Refugee Tales event and Tribute to Martin Luther King.
Sinéad Morrissey, winner of both T.S. Eliot and Forward Prizes in conversation with Ursula Owen. 

Theatrical events to look out for are Mix Tape and Dr. Zeeman's Catastrophe Machine. Plus London friends- why not come along to a Ledbury Salon at Greenwich Book Festival on Saturday 16 June with Karen McCarthy Woolf, Hannah Lowe and Richard Osmond chatting about urban/green spaces in poetry.  

Mix Tape features poems about music, poems about love, poems of protest and of exile, monologues and duet poems … all tied together through an unforgettable soundtrack of songs, from Afrobeats to hip-hop, from reggae to soul. Through a heartfelt, humorous and honest exploration of two individual lives, Mixtape will inspire audiences to compile the definitive track list of their own experiences.

Mixtape Tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS6Bk8E3TYA
Mixtape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtZDW0rOv_Y

Doctor Zeeman’s Catastrophe Machine, is the new stage production from award winning poet Martin Figura.  He turns to international mathematics guru Sir Erik Christopher Zeeman’s iconic machine, the moon and photographs to shed light on life's pressing questions and to help him sort out love, loss and when to let go. 

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