Ilkley Literature Festival 2019 tickets offer
Staff and students can get 20% off tickets for many of the events at the North of England’s largest and longest-running celebration of all things literary.
Ilkley Literature Festival (ILF) 2019, based in the Yorkshire spa town just 15 miles from Leeds, runs from Friday 4 to Sunday 20 October and comprises 180 events across 17 days.
Big names booked to appear include David Suchet, Prue Leith, Alastair Campbell, Mark Radcliffe, Kirsty Wark and Booker-longlisted authors Oyinkan Braithwaite and John Lanchester, as well as Clare Balding, who headlines the Children’s Festival.
Inaugurated in 1973 by WH Auden, the Festival will this year be launched by another poet – the Poet Laureate, Simon Armitage, who is also Professor of Poetry at Leeds. Professor Armitage is a long-standing friend and creative collaborator of ILF.
Poet Laureate and Professor of Poetry at Leeds, Simon Armitage, will open this year’s Ilkley Literature Festival
Renowned for its poetry, the Festival’s packed programme of prose this year also features Pam Ayres, Raymond Antrobus and Lemn Sissay, with new commissions from 2019’s Poets in Residence: Colette Bryce, Genevieve Carver and Shash Trevett. Gyles Brandreth will also celebrate his passion for the best-loved poems in the English language with his new book, Dancing by the Light of the Moon.
For the second year running, Leeds is an official Festival partner. Not only do we help attract leading names to the area, but we also provide our students with unique opportunities to gain hands-on experience with a leading cultural organisation. Writers, researchers and students from Leeds feature in the Festival’s programme of talks, events and activities – see the Cultural Institute website for full details.
And staff and students can now get 20% off tickets for many of the Festival events when booking by accessing the discount code. The only events excluded from the offer are:
- The Guided Reading Group
- The Big book Quiz and Banquet
- Stargazing Walk with Abigail Beall
- Simon Jenkins: The Great Beers of Yorkshire
- Two Rivers Concert Band
- Ned Palmer: Cheesemongers History of the British Isles; and
- Pam Ayres.
There Festival also features a Fringe, bespoke film screenings and workshops for poets, writers and readers.
Visit the ILF webpage for further information, details of the Festival Friends scheme and to download the full programme. Tickets will be on sale online and through the box office on 01943 816714 from Tuesday 27 August.
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