2021 Online Festival Programme
Browse by day for complete event descriptions and bios and download or print an A4 programme to help you plan
Access
'We acknowledge that there may be accessibility issue for some audience members and we invite them to contact us in advance to see how we can help, potentially by liaising with poets and providing text versions of poems in advance of the performance’
Thursday 4th to Sunday 7th November
Please see the programme below. The festival events (readings, talks, performances) do not overlap and there is an hour-long gap between them. Each event is of 60-minute duration with some leeway to overrun in the evenings. There are two daily slots for workshops at 10:00am and 1:15pm with two 90-minute sessions running in parallel.
People who have booked workshops successfully will have had an email on how to pay.
Poetry in Aldeburgh is a volunteer-led festival.
We receive no external funding but rely on donations and sponsors. To help us pay readers and plan for next year, please give what you can. Suggested amounts:
£5 for an event, £10 for a day, £25 for the weekend
We will say how to donate via BACS when we send you the Event links close to the date
Alternatively here is a Paypal Link
We are delighted that illustrator and political cartoonist Henny Beaumont is our virtual Artist in Residence this year! Henny will be drawing Poetry in Aldeburgh's festival antics via Zoom and we will be posting what she produces across our social media.
THURSDAY
07:00pm
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Festival Launch Reading
Themes of Place, Perception and Play with Sarah Doyle, Cai Draper, Samatar Elmi
60min E0
FRIDAY
10:00am
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Workshop 1:
tbd
90min W1
10:00am
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Workshop 2:
90min W2
tbd
12:00pm
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Reading on Place
Fenland Poetry Journal Showcase with Wendy Cope and six poets: Jonathan Totman, Agnieszka Studzinska, Dominic O’Sullivan, Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana, Anna Maria Mickiewicz, Chris Emery
60min E1
01:15pm
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Workshop 3:
tbd
90min W3
01:15pm
-
Workshop 4:
tbd
90min W4
03:00pm
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Reading on Perception
Mental Health
with Briony Bax, Louisa Campbell, Rachel Lewis, Vanessa Lampert, Andrew McMillan
60min E2
05:00pm
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Talk and Rading
Seren at 40 with Kim Moore, Abeer Ameer, Dai George, Carolyn Jess-Cooke
60min E3
07:00pm
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Reading on Play
Clowning Around
with Chrissy Williams, Katie Griffiths, Jon Stone, Matthew Haigh, Georgi Gill, Samatar Elmi, Cai Draper
60min E4
09:00pm
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After Dinner Event
Poetry Performance: Guillemot Press Poets on Poetry and Collaboration with Alycia Pirmohamed, Pratyusha, Clasissa Alvarez, Petero Kalute
60+min E5
SATURDAY
10:00am
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Workshop 5
tbd
90min W5
10:00am
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Workshop 6
tbd
90min W6
12:00pm
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Reading on Place
Ethiopian Poetry with Chris Beckett and Ethiopian poets in London and Addis Ababa
60min E6
01:15pm
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Workshop 7
tbd
90min W7
01:15pm
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Workshop 8
tbd
90min W8
03:00pm
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Reading on Perception
Sexual Survival
with Alice Hiller, Chaucer Cameron, Day Mattar, Tessa Foley
60min E7
05:00pm
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Talk and Reading
Following in the footsteps of Clare
with Robert Selby, Robert Hamberger in conversation with Pam Thompson
60min E8
07:00pm
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Reading on Play
Poetry and Video
with Matt Haigh, Maria Sledmere, Emma Filtness, Calum Rodger
60min E9
09:00pm
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After Dinner Event
Bad Betty Poets
with Kirsten Luckins, S. Niroshini, Shareen K. Murayama, Joel Auterson
60+min E10
10:00am
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Workshop 9
tbd
90min W9
10:00am
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Workshop 10
tbd
90min W10
12:00pm
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Reading on Place
Nature, Landscape and Climate Change
with Dom Bury, Sarah Westcott, Anna Saunders, Steph Morris
60min E11
01:15pm
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Workshop 7
tbd
90min W11
01:15pm
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Workshop 8
tbd
90min W12
03:00pm
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Reading on Perception
Poem, Text and Image (four pamphlets)
with Harry Man & Endre Ruset, Shash Trevett, Jo Morris Dixon, James McDermott
60min E12
05:00pm
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Talk and Reading
Rory Waterman interviewing Wendy Cope
60min E13
07:00pm
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Reading on Play
An Irish Fantasy
with Séan Hewitt, Victoria Kennefick, Aoife Lyall, Roisin Kelly
60min+ E14