Torbay Poetry Festival

Welcome to the Torbay Festival of Poetry.

 ‘To have great poets there must be great audiences too’ – Walt Whitman.  We do have great audiences at Torbay, people who appreciate poetry and make the guests poets feel welcome and loved.  Despite this year having thirty-two events over the weekend, we have scheduled-in time between for coffees, tea or wine, but above all for chat, making friends, and meeting the poets. All this is such a vital part of poetry festivals, and the new hotel has fantastic facilities for doing it.  With fourteen events in which the audience can participate if they feel the need, as well as much good poetry, it’s adding up to a sparkling weekend. 

MAKE A NOTE OF THE DATES FOR 2012:

Thursday 25th to Monday 29th October 2012.


Featured Events

WEEKEND TICKET OFFER

October 25th 2012 at 7:30am

WEEKEND SPECIAL OFFER TICKET

Held at Various - see individual events

£77.00

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Tell it to the Bees

October 26th 2012 at 8:00pm

Reading by the Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy

Held at Livermead Cliff Hotel, Sea Front, Torquay

£12.00

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Festival Supper

October 27th 2012 at 7:00pm

This event is more than a reading, it is an enjoyable social occasion. Guest Reader: R.V. Bailey.

Held at Livermead Cliff Hotel, Sea Front, Torquay

£7.50

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Kindly sponsored by:-

   
and J.D. Beugger (dec'd)

Torbay Open Poetry Competition

HILARY DAVIES agrees to be the judge for the 2012 Torbay Open Competition.

  HILARY DAVIES is the author of three collections of poetry with Enitharmon Press, is a Gregory Award winner and Hawthornden Fellow. Was Chairman of the Poetry Society 1992-3; won the TLS/Cheltenham Poetry Competition 1987 and was editor of ARGO magazine for 12 years. Reviews regularly for the literary press and has been a judge for the Bournemouth Literature Festival Poetry Competition. Thirty years a teacher of French and German; she has translated poetry from both languages. 

 

Festival News

FESTIVAL SUPPER READER

We're very lucky this year to have DR. R.V. (Rossie) BAILEY as our guest reader.  Though often known as ‘the other voice’ in readings ...

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FRIENDS OF THE FESTIVAL

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Archives

2010 Festival

Readings by Tim Cunningham, Duncan Forbes, Shanta Acharya, Martyn Crucefix, Philip Gross, Wendy Cope.  A coach trip to Royal Dart ...

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2011 Festival

 New presences at this Festival included Susan Wicks, Sue Boyle, Lynne Hjelmgaard, Caroline Carver, Alec Taylor, Alan Jenkins, ...

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Find out about the festival we have presented here

Kindly sponsored by:-

   
and J.D. Beugger (dec'd)