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News: Latest - distributed around Yorkshire June 20, 2016 01:04:31 PM
One of the best poets of his generation, Ted Hughes, is being celebrated with a festival in his name.
The event is taking place from Friday, 24 June to Sunday, 26 June in Mexborough.
The poets south yorkshire connections have regularly been overlooked but a local community group is working hard to put that right.
The Ted Hughes Poetry Festival 2016 follows a successful inaugural event last year, which attracted over 500 people from across the country. Such is the pull of the great writer, that due to popular demand, the festival has returned for a second year and will become an annual event, putting south yorkshire firmly on the literary map.
Dominic Somers, creative producer of the Ted Hughes Festival said: “We are thrilled to have got funding from the Arts Council, Right Up Our Street and the Dearne Valley Landscape Partnership (DVLP)for which Barnsley Council are the lead partner, to put on the festival for a second year.
“We have a stellar cast of artists taking part. The ‘Three Ian’s’ - McMillan, Clayton and Parks will start proceedings on the Friday night with a mixture of poetry, story and humour. Ian McMillan’s recent appointment as the Barnsley Poet Laureate is great timing for the festival.
“A real coup for this year is the Saturday night, which will see a reading by acclaimed poet and artist Frieda Hughes, Frieda is of course, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath’s daughter.”
Ted Hughes was a poet and children’s writer, who is often ranked as one of the best poets of the English language. Hughes, who spent 13 of his formative years in South Yorkshire, held the post of Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death in 1998.
Another Dearne Valley writer, Barry Hines, will be remembered at the festival. Visitors are invited to come along to a special free screening of The Gamekeeper at the Cosy Cinema in Mexborough.
The festival will include a range of other performances and activities, including appearances by award winning and acclaimed poets Helen Mort, Greg Leadbetter, Vidyan Ravithiran and Cathy Galvin, who will give readings. Greg and Vidyan will participate with Ed Reiss and Steve Ely in a roundtable discussion, ‘Politics and Ted Hughes’.
Nick Wilding will give a talk on Ted Hughes and the First World War. As well as this local musician Mick Jenkinson will perform acoustic arrangements of some of the ballads Ted Hughes would sing as an undergraduate in the pubs of Cambridge.
Matthew Clegg and singer-songwriter Ray Hearne will reprise their popular ‘A Navigation’ performance trail, whilst poet Ed Reiss will lead a poetry walk from Mexborough to Sprotborough Falls.
Steve Ely and Dominic Somers will lead an updated version of the ever-popular ‘Ted Hughes’s Paper Round’ and Ian Parks will host an evening devoted to another Mexborough poet, Harold Massingham. Visual arts will be represented by photographer Karl Hurst’s, Ted Hughes-based exhibition and Hughes-themed work from local art groups.
Dominic Somers, creative producer of the Ted Hughes Festival added: “There is so much going on throughout the festival, I’d advise people to take a look at the website and see which events suit them.”
Tickets are bookable now on the website www.tedhughesproject.org and for further information please contact Dom Somers on 07728 914993.
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