Bert Flitcroft will be at the Stoke Literary Festival, reading and taking questions, at the New Vic Theatre, on Thursday 8 at 7pm – ‘Out of Staffordshire’. For details:  stokeliteraryfestival.org/poetry-event-out-of-staffordshire.

This is to showcase The Staffordshire Poetry Collection. To see this anthology: staffordshirepoetlaureate.wordpress.com/the-staffordshire-poetry-collection. Bert will also be around on the following two afternoons to talk about his work as poet laureate of Staffordshire and the county collection.