Several new books will be launched at this year's Ledbury Poetry Festival.
One of them will celebrate the memories of the town's senior citizens.
Over the last five years, writers Fiona Sampson and Graham Hartill have been encouraging pensioners to write during workshop sessions at local residential homes.
On July 12, in the Burgage Hall, both poets will read from Life Lines, which are poems based on transcriptions of conversations that capture "the rhythms of memory and speech".
Festival director Dr Charles Bennett said: "The voices are full of gossip, friends, hop-picking and orchards."
The festival itself is producing twenty twenty, a pamphlet costing just £1 that contains twenty poems, all less than twenty lines, by twenty of the poets appearing at this year's event.
Dr Bennett said the aim was to give people a taster of what the festival has to offer.
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