Simon will be MC at ‘City Voices’, the Lych Gate tavern, Queen Square, Wolverhampton, WV1 1TX.

Tuesday January 10th 7.30pm.

Tickets £3/ £1 (under 16s) on the door.

Performers include Pennie Barham Gillis, John Thomas and Cherry Doyle.

Bo Crowder Euphony launch event at the Stoke Stanza Poetry group which meets at The Leopard, 21 Market Place, Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, ST6 3AA.

Tuesday January 17th, 7.30pm.

Free event.

Tel: 01782 819644

Do you enjoy reading poetry? Your own or someone else’s? Then come along to the Poetry Readers’ Group at Central Library.

Wednesday January 25th, 3.00-5.00pm.

Bring and read a poem – one you have written yourself or a favourite by another poet. This is a free event.

Central Library, Snow Hill, Wolverhampton, WV1 3AX. For further info email Jane Seabourne.

As part of the Wolverhampton Original Literature Festival (WOLF) Simon will be offering a poetry workshop with David Bingham on the haiku in the Tractor Shed at Bantock House, WV3 9LQ.

Saturday January 28th 10.30-1pm.

Tickets £7/ £5. The session will include a gentle walk in the grounds.

WOLF Tickets are available from Wolverhampton Art Gallery, by phone 0870 320 7000 or via www.wolvesliteraturefestival.co.uk.

Jeff Phelps and Marion Cockin will run an exciting craft/poetry writing workshop, ‘Paperverse’.

Saturday January 28th 1.30-4pm

Tractor Shed, Bantock House, tickets £7/£5.

Win Saha and Bert Flitcroft will present a programme of poetry plus ‘afternoon tea’ in the city Art Gallery Sculpture Room, next to the café, Lichfield Street, WV1 1DU.

Saturday January 28th 3pm

Tickets £3 on the door.

‘Black Country Voices’ at the Arena Theatre, Wulfruna Street, WV1 1SE.

Saturday January 28th 7.30-9pm

This wonderful entertainment will feature Nailmakers’ Daughters Emma Purshouse, Marion Cockin and Iris Rhodes plus Dave Reeves.

Tickets £8/£6.