ELVINGTON poetic folk songwriter Jade Cuttle is spending the next two weeks as Ilkley Literature Festival's 2017 apprentice poet in residence.
Jade, 22, is working alongside BBC Radio 4's Daljit Nagra.
“I’m really excited to be appointed to this role. I’m particularly looking forward to leading inspiring workshops focused around nature and performing a poetic folk music set,” she said.
Her workshop based around trees is already sold out.
"I am really inspired by trees in my work," she said. "I like to think I am aiming high like them."
Jade studied at Barlby High School, and then York College, which she said enabled her to read French and Russian at the University of Cambridge where she gained a first.
She has performed on BBC Radio 3 in association with BBC Proms (The Art of Splinters) and is broadcast regularly across the BBC Introducing programme.
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