Lewes Literary Festival

People wishing to register their support for the building of the new Lewes Library and Literature Centre should sign a petition at Southover Grange in Lewes between November 2-4. The Grange will be turned into a mini literature centre, offering an overlapping daytime and evening programme of readings, talks and workshops with freshly prepared Caribbean meals and a licensed bar. The festival, run by Lewes Live Literature, is entitled Cornucopia and features poetry, creative writing workshops, talks on history and art history and children s events. The array of inventive literary talents appearing includes poets Jo Shapcott and Gillian Clarke, Antony Penrose on Surrealism in Sussex, local artist Peter Messer s Desert Island Paintings , and novelist and columnist Terence Blacker. There is also a talk on the last woman in Britain to be imprisoned as witch (in 1944) and the founding of MI6. The event is launched on Thursday, November 1, with a special poetry and curry event at the Shanaz Indian Restaurant on Lewes High Street, featuring top poets Ian Duhig and Pascale Petit.

Programmes available from Cliffe Bookshop, Lewes TIC or direct from LLL, PO Box 2766, Lewes BN7 2WF.