More than 100 poets are due to appear in Haworth over the weekend of 2-3 July at the Poetry at the Parsonage festival, part of the celebrations to mark the 200th anniversary of Charlotte Bronte’s birth.

They include Kate Fox, Helen Mort, Gaia Holmes, Clare Shaw, Winston Plowes, Steve Pottinger, John Foggin, Keith Hutson, Carole Bromley, Antony Dunn, Wendy Pratt, Steve Nash, Andy Humphrey, Oz Hardwick, Matt Abbott, Toria Garbutt, Matthew Hedley Stoppard, and Jimmy Andrex, as well as members of a number of Yorkshire poetry groups.

The festival, organised in association with Word Club of Leeds, which is run by Mark Connors, will take place in the Parsonage garden, the Old School Room and West Lane Baptist Centre with refreshments available. Admission is free (donations of £3 a head appreciated). Much of the action will take place on Charlotte's Stage at the Old School Room, where the comperes over Saturday and Sunday will be Mark Connors, Winston Plowes, Genevieve Walsh and Craig Bradley. More details