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Aldeburgh Poetry Festival 2011 Programme

We’re delighted to announce that this year’s Aldeburgh Festival programme is now available – 25 poets from all over the UK and beyond: Albania, America, Australia, The Bahamas, Ireland, Jordan and New Zealand – coming to Suffolk this autumn (4-6 November) to take part in 52 interconnecting events (14 are free).

We’ll be putting the spotlight on the poets and their events in the coming months on this website and in STUFF (our monthly e-newsletter). For now though, we think you’ll just want to have your own look through the programme – it’s available to download online here or you can always join our mailing list here and we’ll pop one in the post to you.

Austerity measures have inspired Silk Pearce’s design this year. To save paper, production, postage and distribution costs, our programme booklet is shorter and in black and white. And instead of commissioning a new illustrator, we’ve been recycling, using photographs from Peter Everard Smith’s unique Festival archive (Peter’s been our ‘poet catcher’ with a camera since 2003). We think it looks really stylish and certainly there’s been no cut in the quality of the artistic programme.

Though the programme booklet is shorter, you can find more info about the poets this year on this website – if you browse the programme online here, you’ll find a full biog about each poet and a sample poem under their events. Our small (smaller than ever!) dedicated team have worked harder than ever to put together this year’s Festival – we think it will be worth it and we hope that you’ll want to join us in Aldeburgh this autumn.