BLF: A Guided Journey through The Infernal Garden

BLF: A Guided Journey through The Infernal Garden
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025
Date and time
12 Oct 2025 8pm - 9pm
Location

Eastside Jazz Club, Royal Birmingham Conservatoire

200 Jennens Road, B4 7XR

Price

£8
£6.40 concessions

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Gregory Leadbetter

Birmingham Literature Festival: A Guided Journey through The Infernal Garden with Gregory Leadbetter

Gregory Leadbetter’s latest poetry collection, The Infernal Garden (Nine Arches Press), offers the reader poems in which our inner and outer worlds are revealed afresh – and our planet becomes a garden haunted both by the experience of loss and the environmental crisis, and the promise of enchantment and renewal.

Join us for a one-of-a-kind journey through that garden, accompanied by an illustrated audio-visual guide to some of its curiosities, allusions, and connections – from the song of a blackbird to seventeenth-century occult arts – exploring the imagination of the poet and the world of The Infernal Garden.

Running time approx. one hour

Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

Events include:

BLF: Poetry on Demand

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 12pm
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

BLF: Workshop - Life Writing

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 10.30am
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

BLF: Workshop - Smoke and Mirrors

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 10.30am
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

BLF: The Quiet Lives of Working-Class Men

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 12pm
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

BLF: Workshop - Creative Non-Fiction

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 1.30pm
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

BLF: Workshop - Writing Grief

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 1.30pm
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

BLF: Boater with Jo Bell

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 1.30pm
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

BLF: Falling Through the Cracks

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 2pm
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

BLF: Searching for my Slave Roots

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 3.30pm
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

BLF: Art Under Capitalism

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 4pm
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

BLF: Rethinking the Nuclear Family

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 5.30pm
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

BLF: Verve Open Door x BLF

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 6pm
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025

BLF: The Big Payback

Sun 12 Oct 2025 - 7.30pm
Birmingham Literature Festival 2025