Bloodaxe Poets at Ledbury Poetry Festival 2022
Several Bloodaxe poets appeared at Ledbury Poetry Festival in 2022 (1st - 10th July), in a mixture of in-person and hybrid events.
Audio of some of these events is now available on Ledbury Poetry Player here.
As well as some of the poets pictured, there is also audio of a brilliant event with American poet Nicole Sealey, whom Bloodaxe will be publishing in 2023.
A recording of Thomas Lynch launching his 2022 retrospective Bone Rosary is available on the Ledbury Poetry Player here. Thomas features from 26:00.
There's also audio of the events with Deborah Landau and Sarah Wimbush. Neil Astley joined the event with Sarah Wimbush to read work by Jo Clement, who was unable to attend.
Vidyan Ravinthiran and Seni Seneviratne were discussing their forthcoming anthology Out of Sri Lanka: Tamil, Sinhala and English poetry from Sri Lanka and its diasporas that will be published by Bloodaxe in June 2023.
Select the 2019 Festival tab on the Ledbury Poetry Player to hear a wonderful earlier reading by Slovenian poet Aleš Šteger, whose retrospective, Burning Tongues: New & Selected Poems, translated by Brian Henry, is published by Bloodaxe Books in the UK in November 2022. Aleš Šteger reads first in this joint event with Ilya Kaminsky. He reads a few poems in Slovenian, with the rest in Brian Henry's translations.
The full programme of events for the 2022 festival can be found at: https://www.poetry-festival.co.uk/events-grid/
[07 June 2022]
