Award-winning poet Owen Sheers has kicked off the Ledbury poetry festival, which started on 29 June, and goes on until 8 July. Among many options, poetry from the Being Human Bloodaxe anthology is performed on Sunday 1 July; Elvis McGonagall appears at a Bang Said The Gun session in the evening of the same day; there’s a Poems and Cider night on Thursday 5 July; and a workshop on page to stage with Dave Lordan on Saturday 7 July. Full details