Price: £8

Link: http://www.poetry-festival.com/

Talks: John Clare

From the festival website:
“This event will illuminate a particular time in the life of the great nature poet, John Clare. Both Iain Sinclair and Adam Foulds have written very different books inspired by the time around his incarceration in High Beach Asylum in Epping Forest. In 1841 John Clare fled Epping Forest and walked eighty miles to his home in Helpston, near Peterborough. In Edge of the Orison Iain Sinclair follows in his footsteps. In The Quickening Maze set in 1840, Adam Foulds brilliantly imagines the closed world of High Beech and its various inmates.”

Iain Sinclair and Brian Catling will give a Live Reading at this year Ledbury Poetry Festival, at the Burgage Hall

From the Festival Website:

“Iain Sinclair and Brian Catling were both connected to the British avant-garde poetry scene in the 60s and 70s and they are reunited again at Ledbury for what will be a fascinating and perspective-shifting event. Iain Sinclair’s works include Lud heat: A Book of the Dead Hamlets, Downriver, Lights out for the Territory and London Orbital. Brian Catling is a poet, sculptor, performance artist, filmmaker, academic. His work ‘Antix’, was described as, “Uncompromising, its imaginative density and sinister ire pushed the shifting relationship between performer and audience into an uneasy space” (Frieze Magazine). He is also known for his very black sense of humour. His new book of poetry Resurrecting Bobby Awl is published this year.”

Please check the Festival website for more details and for changes to the schedule.