Winchester Poetry Festival has announced a ‘stretched’ festival for 2021 comprising a five-month programme of exciting workshops, readings and discussion events culminating in a weekend of live events in October.
The summer line-up, which starts on Friday 11 June 2021, will bring people together to explore writing, expression and its powerful impact on wellbeing in a series of stimulating readings, conversations and workshops taking place online over the coming months.
Events will explore journaling techniques and writing in prose and including looking into some of the work that will be performed at the Festival. Rising stars such as Jen Hadfield, Raymond Antrobus and Jericho Brown and Joyelle Sweeney from the USA, will all be involved in conversations and readings
Additionally, this year’s Robert Hutchison Lecture, will be given by Professor Will May on the relationship between Sylvia Plath and Stevie Smith and will feature readings by Juliet Stevenson.
Tickets for the summer programmer are available here
The three-day live weekend is planned to take place from 8 to 10 October 2021 at the Winchester Discovery Centre. The line-up includes familiar events such as Things Being Various featuring outstanding Irish poet and Professor of Poetry Paul Muldoo, together with readings and performances by Liz Berry, Patience Agbabi and Romalyn Ante as well as Hampshire Poet Kathryn Bevis and Winchester Muse.
Running alongside the 2021 programme, the Festival will run its Poet on the High Street residency, supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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