Friday 30 May : Jeff Phelps at Silver Street Poets
Jeff Phelps will be guest poet, reading at Silver Street Poets, Bristol from 12.30 to 2pm.
Venue: St Stephen’s Church, St Stephen’s Avenue, Bristol, BS1 1EQ. Entrance: £4 or what you can afford. Open mic spots also available. www.saint-stephens.com/your-visit
Tuesday 3 June : Poetry Readers’ Group
Poetry Readers’ Group meets at the White Hart, 10, Wharfage, Ironbridge, Telford, TF8 7AW, 2-4 pm, and the theme will be ‘Gardens’. For more information contact Paul Francis: francisliberty@btinternet.com
Saturday 7 June : ‘Trees’ workshop
‘Trees’ workshop with Kuli Kohli & Simon Fletcher at Pant Nature Reserve, Pant, off the A483, near Oswestry, Shropshire, SY10 9RB, 11am-1pm. Tickets £9/ £7. Everyone is welcome. Offa’s Press will be publishing an anthology ‘Seeing the Trees, and the Woods’ in October. For more info contact Simon at: info@offaspress.co.uk
Saturday 7 June : Black Country Fayre
Black Country Fayre, Tipton Sports Academy, Wednesbury Oak Road, Tipton DY4 0BS, 10am-3pm. Fayre to be opened by Billy Spakemon. Offa’s Press will have a stall so drop in and say hello. Free entry.
Tuesday 10 June : ‘City Voices’
‘City Voices’ with Jill Tromans, David Bingham, Kerry Hadley-Pryce, Kenton Samuels & Emma Purshouse at the Lych Gate, 44, Queen Square, Wolverhampton, WV1 1TX, 7.30-9pm.
Tickets £5. MC Simon Fletcher.
Tuesday 10 June : Michael W. Thomas reading at Poetry Upstairs
Michael W. Thomas will be reading at Poetry Upstairs at The Melville Centre for the Arts, Pen-Y-Pound, Abergavenny, NP7 5UD, with Emily Cotterill at 7pm.
Tickets £5 (phone Nicky Hassett, Events Organiser 01873 853167).
Wednesday 11 June : Emma Purshouse at Dudley Book Festival
Emma Purshouse will be appearing at Gornal Library as part of Dudley Book Festival 6-7pm: Gornal Library, Abbey Road, Lower Gornal, Dudley, DY3 2PG.
Emma will be talking about making a living as a writer, sharing poems and extracts from her novel Dogged (which was recently selected and read by the Gornal Library Book Group). Contact Gornal library on 01384 812755 to book your place.
Find out more about what’s on at the festival here…
Sunday 15 June : Black Country Women
Black Country Women (Emma Purshouse, Marion Cockin, Jane Seabourne, Kuli Kohli & Jane Salmons) are reading at Waterstones, 13-15 Victoria Street, Mander Centre, Wolverhampton, WV1 3NP, 2-3pm.
Free event.
Saturday 21 June : ‘Country Voices’
‘Country Voices’ with Barbara Chapman, Fraser Scott & Jane Salmons at the ‘All Nations’, 20, Coalport Road, Ironbridge, Telford, TF7 5DP, 2.30-4pm.
Tickets £5. MC Simon Fletcher.
Saturday 28 June : ‘Virtual Voices’
‘Virtual Voices’ 5-6:30pm featuring Ian Henery, Saida Chowdhury, and Anne Babbs. Hosted by Cherry Doyle and Kuli Kohli. Pay-as-you-feel event on Zoom. There are also six open mic slots available at Virtual Voices – email cherrydoylepoet@gmail.com to sign up – first come, first served.
ZOOM LINK…
Tuesday 1 July : Poetry Readers at ‘The White Hart’
Poetry Readers at ‘The White Hart’, 10, Wharfage, Ironbridge, Telford, TF8 7AW, 2-4 pm, and the theme will be ‘clothes’. For more information contact Paul Francis: francisliberty@btinternet.com
Tuesday 1 July : Submission details for the ‘Seeing the Trees, and the Woods’
The submission details for the ‘Seeing the Trees, and the Woods’ anthology will be published on the Offa’s Press submissions’ page. If you’re interested in sending in your ‘tree’ poems please read the outline and instructions carefully. The submissions’ window will be 1-31 July.
