Ledbury Poetry Festival 2007
Opening events on Friday 29th JuneSee www.poetry-festival.com for venue map, booking information & more events
James Fenton on The New Faber Book of Love Poems
The Community Hall 5.30pm - 6.30pm £8
An evening of love poetry as James Fenton reads from and talks about The New Faber Book of Love Poems, which he edited. One of the great poets of our time, James Fenton is truly a renaissance man: political journalist, drama critic, book reviewer, war correspondent, foreign correspondent and columnist. Come and hear the classics and favourites, alongside blues lyrics, American folk poetry, Elizabethan lyrics and Broadway songs. A charismatic performer, James Fenton will entrance you with some of the most engaging and emotive lyric poems ever written.
Simon Armitage on Gawain
The Community Hall 7.15pm - 8.15pm £8
Six hundred years after the first edition of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, a second northern poet, Simon Armitage, sets out on the same journey, telling the story of this dramatic and mysterious quest. Best-selling poet and novelist, Simon Armitage will also read from his T S Eliot shortlisted Tyrannosaurus Rex versus the Corduroy Kid, "his wittiest most alertly combative and impassioned collection to date".
If you are interested in this, how about trying this : Sir Gawain and the Green Knight as told by Bernard O'Donoghue on Sunday 1st July.
Sponsored by Simon and Margaret Payton
Murray Lachlan Young's Cautionary Tales for Adults
Market Theatre 8.30pm - 10.30pm £6 Bar available
Poet, satirist, raconteur Murray Lachlan Young rocketed to fame in 1997 after signing a million pound deal with EMI records. A decade later he is back, older and possibly wiser, wowing audiences with his improvisational prowess on Saturday Live for Radio 4. Murray Lachlan Young is a brilliantly unique performer who combines the predatory humour of the Victorian cautionary tale and the pointed whimsy of Noel Coward with a B-movie sensibility.
Sponsored by Orme Dykes & Yates
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