A FREE event in which everyone can take part. As you walk around the Town, you will see questions posted in many of Ilminster’s shop windows. These are quotations, anagrams or jokes(!) and you will find the answers in relevant authors or book titles. A few poems, and play titles performed recently at the Warehouse Theatre, will…
Educated at Wellington School, Somerset and Sandhurst, Freddie Viggers was commissioned into the Royal Regiment of Artillery in 1972 and saw service in Northern Ireland, Germany during the Cold War, Bosnia and Iraq, as well as visiting many other countries during command and staff appointments. He was made a Companion of the Cross of St…
This Event is sponsored by Broomhead & Saul Solicitors LLP. During the years Terry Waite spent in solitary confinement as a hostage, he was kept without writing materials of any kind, and only received books after over three years. During that time he wrote his first book “Taken on Trust” entirely in his head and…
“Dylan Thomas Works with Song” is a Life Story of the Swansea born poet. Thomas’ life is illustrated with anecdotes and includes extracts from ’Under Milk Wood’, his radio broadcasts and letters, not forgetting readings of a number of his poems. Besides providing useful musical interludes in the narrative, the songs are used to underline…
Join us in our fun Literary Festival Quiz. Questions will be of a general literary nature and not too hard! Following the success of last year’s Quiz, Quizmaster Linda Vijeh has put together another mix of fun and interesting literary questions to challenge you. Make up a team of friends and colleagues (maximum of 6…
It’s time to call time on the biggest fraud in literary history. William Shakespeare was no more than a front-man who put his name to the works of other men. The true author of the plays, sonnets and narrative poems we know as “Shakespeare” was Christopher Marlowe. He did not die at Deptford, in 1593,…
Ian Adams is a poet and author. Ian’s first complete collection of poems ‘Unfurling’ is out now. He is also the author of ‘Wilderness Taunts’, a spiritual journey through tough times, ‘Running Over Rocks’, a manual of spiritual practice, and ‘Cave Refectory Road’, a guide to how monastic principles can inform and transform daily life.…
