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'My ears are drunk' - Edward Thomas Festival delights


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The Annual Edward Thomas Poetry Festival took place over  three days from 27 Februray to 1 March.

Mike Waddington speaks to the organiser Jeremy Mitchell and poets Damien Kelly-Basher (Hampshire's Poet Laureate), Jess Mookherjee, Timothy Adès, and Nia Broomhall (poet in Residence at Painshill Place.)

One of the poets said his 'ears were drunk' with the words and the audience agreed.

Jeremy  Mitchell of the Edward Thomas Fellowship talks about the legacy, the stone memorial and preparing for the 150 th anniversary of Thomas's birth.

 

 

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