The Fantastic Cheltenham Poetry Festival

The weekend saw the first ever Cheltenham Poetry Festival and it was fantastic – it really was. There were some cracking events, photos of some of it below. I saw one of my favorite singers Men Diamler accompanied by the poet Cliff Yates. I saw a haunting performance of prose and poetry by Jonathan Taylor and Adam Horovitz both dealing with the issues of parental illness and death and the emotions there in.

There was children’s poetry by Angela Topping which had my five year old hooked, the duo of AF Harold and Peter Wyton that had us all in hysterics and many more which hopefully I’ll write up things in a bit more depth at some point!

I myself performed my Piaf Poem which was as always over shadowed by the fantastic singing of Eve Loiseau. I also acted in Murder in the Chapel – along side local poets Sonia Hendy-Isaacs and Adam Horovitz. This was a purely brilliant Poetic Who Dunnit by Sara-Jane Arbury.

My whole family including mum, dad, great aunt, small children and husband all enjoyed though we all spent far too much money on books! And we didn’t even make it to the head line acts!

Me preparing for reading at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival Opening event at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival Peter Wyton reading at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival Jean listening to poetry at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival AF Harrold reading at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival Edith Piaf tribute at Cafe Rouge during the Chaltenham Poetry Festival Punk Poetry THE COURTESY GROUP at Cheltenham Poetry Festival Rachel Pantechnicon at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival Adam Horovitz reading at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival Jonathan Taylor reading TAKE ME HOME at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival Alaric, Mary and Jean enjoying children's poetry at Waterstones during the Cheltenham Poetry Festival Angela Topping reading The New Generation Jean entranced by Angela Topping's children's poetry Me As Emelia for Murder in the Chapel Murder in the Chapel me waiting to read Me reading my Piaf Poem Eve Loiseau sing Piaf songs at Cheltenham Poetry Festival

Posted: Thursday, April 7th, 2011 @ 1:34 pm
Categories: Festivals and Events.
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2 Responses to “The Fantastic Cheltenham Poetry Festival”

  1. Hotel Cheltenham Says:
    August 30th, 2011 at 12:57 pm

    It’s great to see all manner of events appearing and being hosted around Cheltenham. Keep up the work!

  2. Turquoise Monster » Blog Archive » Cheltenham Poetry Festival Says:
    April 12th, 2012 at 10:27 am

    […] year saw the first ever Cheltenham Poetry Festival which as a family we very much enjoyed, I read out my Piaf Poem and we met loads of amazing poets […]

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