Mr Ahsan, a British-born poet and writer, denies being involved in terrorist activity.
Otherwise a poet, writer and folk singer at the local radio station, Santosh has been brought in for her expertise in the local Bundelkhandi cuisine.
This year, the festival will host internationally-renowned authors such as Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Yusef Kumonyakaa, British Book Award-winner Hari Kunzru, Moroccan writer Abdelkader Benali, famed poet Beth Lisick and travel writer Peter Moore.
However, Michael Rosen, the children's writer and poet, expressed doubt about what he called "government diktat".
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Jonsdottir has been in parliament for about a year, but considers herself a poet, artist, writer, and activist.
Writer, poet, legal specialist and Portuguese Orientalist, he is currently President of the Centre for Arab and Portuguese Studies at Silves.
But as a performer, and ultimately a writer, a poet, Maya Angelou found her voice.
He is the rich writer who befriends the poet Spooner on Hampstead Heath and takes him home.
But when I was young, I was a passionate creative writer and sort of a poet.
He is joined by Scottish poet Douglas Dunn and Welsh-based writer Carol Rumens.
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Blanco, 44, will be the youngest-ever inaugural poet and the first Hispanic or gay writer to take the role, according to organisers.
"The moment the fiction writer, the novelist, the storyteller, the poet starts to think that 'I am writing to persuade, I am writing propaganda' then this is a tremendously bad thing for whatever talent you have, " she tells CNN.
Taking part will be several of the poetry world's leading lights, including Irish writer Seamus Heaney, New Zealand's Bill Manhire and former US poet laureate Kay Ryan.
Another nonmusical highlight of the trip: a witty, revelatory lecture on the writer Flannery O'Connor, presented at her birthplace by Christopher Hope, the distinguished novelist and poet, who is also Daniel Hope's father.
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