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Aug 2022

Last Updated: 23/08/2022

Poetry lovers prepare for a four-day feast in Ripon

by Tim Flanagan

| 22 Aug, 2022
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Ripon's growing reputation as a place for creative writers will be underlined next month when it holds Yorkshire's biggest poetry festival.

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Tickets are now available for Ripon Poetry Festival, which has grown year on year to become the biggest event of its kind in Yorkshire.

The four-day feast of readings, performances, workshops and book launches, runs from September 22 to 25 at venues across the city.

Claire Thompson, who is outreach librarian at Ripon Library and one of the judges for the festival poetry competition, told the Stray Ferret:

"We attracted a record 260 entries this year from poets of all ages.
"This prompted us to produce separate anthologies of poems written by children and adults, selected for publication after catching the eyes of judges."


The respective children's and adult anthologies will be launched at 5.30pm and 7.30pm on September 24 in the Operatic Hall at Ripon Arts Hub.

Ripon Bowling Club

Ripon Bowling Club at Bondgate Green is the venue on September 23 for The Testament of Jake Thackray.



Festival curator Andy Croft, who is a talented poet, prolific author and publisher, said:

"We were so impressed with the standard of entries received from children, that we decided they should have a book of their own.
"This will be the fifth time that we have staged the festival and this year’s line-up includes well-known poets Linda France, Helen Mort, Tara Bergin, Henry Raby and Jim Greenhalf."


The festival will include posthumous launches of new books by Yorkshire poets David McAndrew, who taught English for many years at Ripon College and Vernon Scannell, whose work titled Farewell Performance, is being published to mark the centenary of his birth.

Humorous songs written by the late singer-songwriter, journalist and poet Jake Thackray, will  be performed by Mike Wilson and Keith Wilshere in an evening of entertainment at Ripon Bowling Club.

In addition to the arts hub and bowling club, a wide range of venues will be used to increase accessibility to events.

These include Community House, Evolve, The Walled Garden, Jennyruth Workshops, The Leper Chapel on Magdalen's Road, Ripon Library, The Walled Garden and Thorpe Prebend.

As well as being available through the Ripon Poetry Festival website tickets can be purchased on the door or in advance from the Little Ripon Bookshop on Westgate.














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