We are delighted to announce that Patience Agbabi will be headlining our 2026 Literary Festival on 26 and 27 September. at Forty Hall Estate. Patience will be giving a workshop and a reading.
Patience Agbabi FRSL is a dynamic poet, novelist, workshop facilitator and Fellow in Creative Writing at Oxford Brookes University. She has performed all over the world and taught Creative Writing for 30 years, from primary to PhD. Her poem ‘Eat Me’ is studied on the Edexcel A’ Level curriculum.
Agbabi has created four poetry collections, including Telling Tales (Canongate, 2014), her retelling of The Canterbury Tales, shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry plus Wales Book of the Year 2015. She has toured this work extensively at US universities including Harvard and Yale.
Agbabi’s middle-grade novel The Infinite (Canongate, 2020), launched The Leap Cycle, a time-travel adventure series. This was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award and won Wales Book of the Year: Children & Young People category in 2021. The fourth and final book of the series, The Past Master, appeared in February 2024.
The photograph of Patience is copyright Lyndon Douglas
