The seventeenth annual T S Eliot Festival at Little Gidding
Sunday 7 July 2024
The T S Eliot Festival is back again this year on Sunday 7 July with another exciting line-up providing an inspirational day of talks, readings, and discussions near the pig-sty, the dull façade, and the tombstone.
The Festival will feature Eliot scholar Maud Ellman, former Old Bailey judge Charles Wide, and much-loved poet George Szirtes, winner of the 2004 T S Eliot Prize for Poetry.
The Festival ends with the traditional reading of Little Gidding. Weather-permitting, the poem will be read on the steps of the church immortalised by Eliot.
Featuring talks and poetry, conversation and debate, and delicious food and wine, the Festival is a delightful celebration of Eliot and of Little Gidding, and a chance to meet other Eliot scholars and enthusiasts. It takes place in the garden of Ferrar House at Little Gidding in rural Cambridgeshire. In addition to the programme of Eliot-related events, morning coffee, a two-course buffet lunch, and afternoon tea will be served. Doors open at 10:00, the programme begins at 10:30, and the Festival concludes at 4:30.
All meals and refreshment are included in the ticket price £50. (For members of the T S Eliot Society and the Friends of Little Gidding, tickets are £40; for students, £25.)
