Aldeburgh Poetry Festival
7 ?" 9 November 2008… and despite the credit crunch and the plethora of other festivals, our boldly imaginative programme has attracted reassuringly healthy advance bookings (average 71% across 31 events). This year’s Festival promises to be its usual feast of poetry excellence with a programme designed to intrigue and enlighten. Tickets are still available for most events ?" so it’s not too late to escape to
We welcome our first Chinese poet ?" Yi Sha ?" a poetic subversive and commanding performer who arrives from
The uncompromisingly candid Afrikaans poet Antjie Krog will cast a fierce poetic light on
The multi-cultural home-front will be led by Australian Clive James, Irish-born Dennis O’Driscoll, Iranian Mimi Khalvati, and Hungarian-born George Szirtes. Plus poets from all over the UK, including Gerry Cambridge (Scotland), Alan Jenkins (London), and the numinous Pauline Stainer (Suffolk).
Late Programme Change
With great regret and due to serious ill health, Matt Simpson has yesterday had to withdraw from the Festival.
Matt Harvey replaces him at the Family Reading on Friday at
Alan Brownjohn replaces him at the Saturday morning Reading (with Tiffany Atkinson and Dennis O'Driscoll) and will also deliver the Close Reading at on Saturday and an intriguing new Craft Talk ?" Poetry into Fiction and Back Again ?" on Sunday at . We are most grateful to Alan for stepping in at such short notice.
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