Festival Programme

Andrew Motion

Poet Laureate

Cambridge Wordfest is delighted and honoured to welcome Andrew Motion back to the festival during his last week as Poet Laureate. Reading from his latest book of poems, The Cinder Path, and a new collection of essays, Ways of Life: On Places, Painters and Poets, Andrew will also talk about his acclaimed autobiography In the Blood - a Memoir of My Childhood, and answer questions about his writing and his role as Laureate.

Introduced by Dame Gillian Beer