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The 55th Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival will take place 29 June - 27 July 2008 and will feature events celebrating the work of:

William Shakespeare
John Donne and
Dylan Thomas

It will also include:

Michael Pennington's 'Sweet William'
The Shakespeare Review
A Poetry Mass
A Local Poets Evening and
A Young People's Poetry Event

For more information, venues, ticket prices and booking details please download our Poetry Festival Events leaflet.

Post-A-Poem

The following poems were among around three hundred which were submitted to help celebrate Shakespeare's Birthday. They were posted on the railings of Shakespeare's Birthplace and this selection formed the basis of a public poetry reading as part of the Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival at the Shakespeare Centre on 16th July. The poems were read by actors Ali and David Troughton.

Please click on the following link to view the poems.