Simon Armitage will be reunited with Stanza Stones lettercarver Pip Hall at Winchester poetry festival this autumn to discuss their collaboration on the 45-mile Stanza Stones trail from Marsden to Ilkley in West Yorkshire. The project saw Armitage write a set of poems inspired by the language and landscape of the Pennine watershed, which were then carved on to stones by Hall.

Armitage, who is Oxford professor of poetry, will also be reading his poetry at the biennial festival, from 7-9 October, with Mimi Khalvati and Helen Mort. Also on the weekend bill are Roger McGough, Frances Leviston, Sinead Morrissey, Sarah Howe, Kei Miller, Ian Duhig, Kim Moore, Sophie Hannah, Shazea Qurashi, Deryn Rees-Jones, Choman Hardi, Bernard O’Donoghue, Inua Ellams and Chris McCabe.

Other events include an editing workshop with Michel Laskey; children’s poetry from around the world; two of the UK’s top translators of German poetry. Karen Leeder and Iain Galbraith reading and discussing their translations of the same German poem; a Winchester poetry walk; and a talk by Nicholas Roe on John Keats in Winchester. Full details