Glastonbury festival’s official poet in residence Longfella - aka Tony Walsh -  will also be appearing at Ledbury poetry festival, which this year runs from July 1 to 10, features almost 100 events including poetry readings and performances, exhibitions, walks and workshops.

A gala poetry performance and supper at Hellens features modern Tunisian poetry reflecting the country’s extraordinary culture and changing politics, while Zimbabwean New Generation Poets focus on “unasked questions, unstated views, unattainable dreams and unfulfilled promises that have marked contemporary Zimbabwe”. Publishers-in-residence Arc Publications present New Order: Hungarian Poets of the Post-1989 Generation, with three poets including George Szirtes, editor of a new anthology of Hungarian poetry.

A second poetry and supper evening at Hellens showcases a multilingual poetry performance with two UK poets, Bill Herbert and Zoe Skoulding, Swiss German poet Raphael Urweider and Indian poets Sampurna Chattarji and Meena Kandasay.

There will plenty of events to raise a laugh – John Hegley brings The Adventures of Monsieur Robinet, a Frenchman with some unusual habits, to Ledbury and Matt Harvey meets The Antipoet, poets in PVC with a double bass, brilliant lyrics and saucy humour.

Workshops with poet-in-residence Ian Duhig have already been snapped up, but there’s an opportunity on July 8 for aspiring poets to get the inside track on how to get published, as Arc Publications offers one-to-one sessions with editorial director Tony Ward and director of development Angela Jarman.

A writing workshop designed for family couples, parent and child, aunt and nephew, offers the opportunity to find the poetry in Ledbury with a guided walk and plenty of poetry writing.

Festival manager Victoria Patch recommends, on July 4, The Poetry of Dementia with John Killick, who has been working as a poet with people with dementia for 16 years, with remarkable results. The event will be launched by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy and closes with a performance by The Joy of Six – “like a great jazz quintet,only with voices”. For details and to book, visit poetry-festival.com or call the box office on 0845 4581743.