Date/Time
Saturday 24 May 2025
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Categories Dartmoor Tors Festival 2025
Tickets on sale here from 12 noon on Sat 22 Feb 2025:
£12 full price • £10 or £7 if you prefer – please pay what you can*
Chair: Sophie Pierce
What role does place play in human stories? And how can our emotional response to wild landscapes deepen our lives and those of the other beings which share our planet? From caves and rivers, to moors and marshes, join writers whose work is deeply rooted in British locations for readings and a conversation about our relationship with the landscapes that surround us.
Sean Borodale works as a poet and artist, making scriptive and documentary poems on location. His first collection of poetry, Bee Journal, was shortlisted for the T S Eliot Prize. Asylum, for Penguin Books, was written inside caves in the Mendip Hills; his latest, Inmates, is about the relationship between humans and insects.
Fiona Williams is a novelist based in Devon. Her first novel, The House of Broken Bricks, set in the Somerset levels, was winner of the 2021 Bridport Prize and the Peggy Chapman-Andrews First Novel Award.
Sophie Pierce is a writer based in Devon. Her latest book, Rock Idols, is an exploration of Dartmoor’s ancient tors; she is also author of The Green Hill: Letters to a son, a memoir about love, loss and the Devon landscape.
Dartmoor Tors Festival
23 – 25 May 2025
This event is part of the first Dartmoor Tors Festival. All ticketed events at Ashburton Arts Centre and the Field System gallery next door can be booked at wegottickets.com/dartmoortorsfestival.
Visit Dartmoor Tors Festival for the full programme, and links to book on guided walks, workshops and other events happening elsewhere.
This is a new festival about culture and place from 23 – 25 May 2025, based in Ashburton, South Dartmoor, with events in Ashburton Arts Centre and Field System gallery in Ashburton, and other locations around Dartmoor.
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* We usually have three ticket prices – please pay what you can. If you can pay the full price, that’s great. If choosing a cheaper ticket allows you to come to more things, then please do! Ticket receipts are split between the artists (it’s usually their livelihood!) and the arts centre (keeps the place going). Except on the rare occasions when we have a sellout gig on our hands, it’s always better to have someone here in the audience than an empty seat, so genuinely, please pay whatever you can.