‘City Voices’ at the Lych Gate Tavern, Queen Square, Wolverhampton, WV1 1TX with the Blakenhall Writers’ group anthology launch & Mark Reece and Jeff Phelps.

Tuesday April 12th, 7.30pm.

Tickets £3/ £1 (under 16s).

‘Country Voices’ with Paul Francis, Natalie White and Jane Seabourne.

Saturday April 16th, 2.30-4pm, The Green Wood Centre, Coalbrookdale, TF8 7DR.

Tickets £4/ £2 (under 16s).

Nailmakers’ Daughters (Emma, Iris & Marion) at Wenlock Poetry Festival, Saturday April 23rd, 12pm.

The Edge Arts Centre, Farley Road, Much Wenlock, TF13 6NB.

Tickets £8. For full details of the Wenlock poetry festival weekend events please go to: www.wenlockpoetryfestival.org.uk.

Also at Wenlock Poetry Festival

11.30-12.15 – Nick Pearson & Keith Chandler reading their poetry.

1.30-2.15 – Simon Fletcher & David Bingham reading their work at the Methodist Church Hall, King Street, Wenlock, TF13 6BL.

Tickets for events £3.

‘So this is how we love…’ poetry reading with Staffordshire Poet Laureate Bert Flitcroft at Codsall Library, Wolverhampton Road, Codsall, WV8 1PX.

Tuesday April 26th, 1-3pm. Free event.

Plus, from 3pm, ‘Brush up your Shakespeare’.

Join Jane Seabourne for an informal come-and-share afternoon with Shakespeare. Discover the Shakespearean sayings still in use today, share your memories of reading or seeing Shakespeare’s plays and read some well-known speeches.

Free event with refreshments. Contact: 01902 842764.

Jeff Phelps will be reading from his work at Studley Village Hall, High Street, Studley, Warwickshire, B80 7HJ.

Friday March 4th, 7.30pm.

A small charge may be made on the door. All welcome.

‘City Voices’ at the Lych Gate Tavern, Queen Square, Wolverhampton, WV1 1TX to mark International Women’s Week with Helen Calcutt, Veronica Shepherd, Carol Howarth, Kuli Kohli & Dorothy Baruch.

Tuesday March 8th, 8pm start owing to football at the Molyneux.

Tickets £3/ £1 (under 16s).