A fabulous Festival performance with Waterstones Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho.

Join Sarala Estruch and Stephanie Sy-Quia, friends and fellow Ledbury Critics, as they discuss their debuts.

Maya C. Popa is a Romanian-American writer, academic, and editor whose books include American Faith and, newly released to rapturous acclaim, Wound is the Origin of Wonder.

Preti Taneja and Zaffar Kunial approach the English, and the pastoral, in different and remarkable ways.

Three women poets from different parts of Europe who share common themes and whose poetry exists ‘between languages’.

Two poets discuss how the look of their poetry on the page is critical to their processes of organic exploration and transmission.

The great children’s writer, Michael Morpurgo, introduces his new anthology, a love letter to trees.

We read the work of the C14th Kashmiri mystic poet, Lal Ded, translated for Penguin Classics by Ranjit Hoskote.

A celebration of the 44 love sonnets published in 1850 by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, superstar poet and linguist of this parish.

Shakespeare's Sonnets are as important and vital today as they were when first published four hundred years ago.