2020 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 12th to Sunday 15th 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 successfully will have had emails 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 Tara Bergin,
Martha Sprackland, Claudine Toutoungi
60min E0
FRIDAY
10:00am
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Workshop 1:
Landscape and Memory with Heidi Williamson
90min W1
10:00am
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Workshop 2:
90min W2
Water, Water, Everywhere with Sue Burge
12:00pm
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Reading on Place
North, South, East, West
with Maria Isakova Bennett, Sue Burge, Martin Malone,
Katrina Naomi
60min E1
01:15pm
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Workshop 3:
Listening into Poetry with Mina Gorji
90min W3
01:15pm
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Workshop 4:
Travelling the Strange Places of Poetry with Katherine Stansfield
90min W4
03:00pm
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Reading on Perception
On Vision and Seeing
with Carole Bromley, Charlotte Eichler, Lydia Kennaway, Emma Storr
60min E2
05:00pm
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Talk and Rading
Experiment and Oulipo introduced by Michael Schmidt
with Philip Terry, Lee Ann Brown
60min E3
07:00pm
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Reading on Play
Love, Lust and Politics
with Elaine Baker, Ramona Herdman, Jazmine Linklater,
Kostya Tsolakis
60min E4
09:00pm
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After Dinner Event
All Saints Sessions present: Ultra Sound
Cheryl Moskowitz and Alastair Gavin’s fusion of poetry and sound with special guests poet Isabelle Baafi, and musicians Malcom Ball and Ian Burdge. Headphones recommended for full surround sound.
60+min E5
SATURDAY
10:00am
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Workshop 5
Playing with Place with Katrina Naomi
90min W5
10:00am
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Workshop 6
Writing for Children with Carole Bromley
90min W6
12:00pm
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Reading on Place
Between Places: Britain and Europe
with Sharon Black, Alex Josephy, Fokkina McDonnell,
Christopher North
60min E6
01:15pm
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Workshop 7
Listening to the Coast with Maria Isakova Bennett
90min W7
01:15pm
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Workshop 8
Putting the Play in Poetry with Arji Manuelpillai
90min W8
03:00pm
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Reading on Perception
The World Around Us
with Claire Crowther, Mina Gorji, Andre Mangeot, Rebecca Watts
60min E7
05:00pm
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Talk and Reading
Languages and Place with L Kiew, Jessica Mookherjee,
Sue Wallace-Shaddad, Jennifer Wong
60min E8
07:00pm
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Reading on Play
The Human Comedy
with Emma Hammond, Lorraine Mariner, Katherine Stansfield, Luke Samuel Yates
60min E9
09:00pm
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After Dinner Event
Performance in the virtual 'Cross Keys' Pub Jill Abram presents
Ali Lewis, Arji Manuelpillai, Serge ♆ Neptune followed by 'Open Mic'
60+min E10
10:00am
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Workshop 9
All Work and All Play with Ali Lewis
90min W9
10:00am
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Workshop 10
Playing with Myth with Miriam Nash
90min W10
12:00pm
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Reading on Place
Place and Memory
with Alan Buckley, Lucia Dove, Jennifer Edgecombe, Heidi Williamson
60min E11
01:15pm
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Workshop 7
90min W11
01:15pm
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Workshop 8
Follow Your Own Paper Trail with Julia Bird, Mike Sims
90min W12
03:00pm
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Reading on Perception
Objects and Enquiry
with Julia Bird, Olivia Dawson, Mike Sims, Richard Skinner
60min E12
05:00pm
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Talk and Reading
Nature and Nurture (Poetry Society)
with Elaine Beckett, Joe Dunthorne, Ian Humphreys, Charlotte Knight
60min E13
07:00pm
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Reading on Play
A Scottish Fantasy
with Andy Jackson, Rob A. MacKenzie, Miriam Nash, Louise Peterkin
60min+ E14