Tickets are now on sale for the Bridlington poetry festival, from 12-15 June, which will be launched with poetry and performance marking the centenary of the outbreak of the first world war. Former poet laureate Andrew Motion will read a selection from his Faber anthology of first world war poems, and from his own collections. The evening’s other half at the Spa theatre, Bridlington, on Thursday 12 June is a performance of the one-man show Rupert Brooke by Useful Donkey Theatre Company. Many events take place at Sewerby Hall, pictured. Other poets on the packed festival bill include Don Paterson, Wendy Cope, Ian McMillan, Andrew McMillan, Blake Morrison, Inua Ellams, Matthew Sweeney, Tara Bergin, Ann Sansom, Peter Sansom, Karen McCarthy Woolf, John Wedgwood Clarke, Ian Duhig and Jean Sprackland. More details