Tuesday 11 March : ‘City Voices’
‘City Voices’ with Cecilia Jones, Santosh K Dary, Fraser Scott, Karen Evans & Nick Pearson, 7.30-9pm, at the ‘Lych Gate’, 44, Queen Square, Wolverhampton, WV1 1TX, 7.30-9pm.
Tickets £5 on the door.
Saturday 15 March : ‘Country Voices’
‘Country Voices’ with David Bingham, Teresa Heeks & Kenton Samuels the White Hart, 10, Wharfage, Ironbridge, Telford, TF8 7AW, 2.30-4 pm.
Tickets £5 on the door.
Wednesday 19 March : ‘An Evening with Kuli Kohli’
Kuli will be chatting to her editor, Simon Fletcher, from Offa’s Press, about her extraordinary life and reading some of her best-known poems. Press Books & Coffee, 42 Market Street, Hednesford, WS12 1AG. 7.30-8.30pm.
Tickets can be bought at the shop (£3)
Or buy online here…
Wednesday 19 March : Pilgrimage for Palestine
Jeff Phelps will be taking part in a reading of poetry plus poetry by Palestinian children as part of Peter Oswald’s Pilgrimage for Palestine from Bristol to London, Parliament Square. The event will be at United Church, Bradford-on-Avon, BA15 1DD at 7.30pm.
Entry: pay what you can.
Saturday 22 March : ‘Virtual Voices’
‘Virtual Voices’ 5-6.30pm featuring Martin Kennedy Yates, Kenton Samuels, Deborah Harvey and Rick Sanders. Hosted by Cherry Doyle and Kuli Kohli. Pay-as-you-feel event.
ZOOM LINK…
Saturday 1 February : Poetry workshop on ‘Trees in the City’
Kuli Kohli and Simon Fletcher will be running a poetry workshop on ‘Trees in the City’, 11am-1pm, starting and ending at the Art Gallery, Lichfield St, Wolverhampton WV1 1DU, in the ‘Creation’ room. Poems created at this workshop may be considered for the ‘Seeing the Trees’ an-thology Simon and Kuli are editing for Offa’s Press.
For the full programme at this year’s Wolverhampton Literature Festival go to: www.wolvesliteraturefestival.co.uk
Tickets for all WLF events here…
Sunday 2 February : ‘South Asian Women Poets’
‘South Asian Women Poets’ An exciting poetry reading with Navkiran Mann, Priyanka Joshi, Santosh K. Dary & Kuli Kohli at the Art Gallery, Lichfield St, Wolverhampton WV1 1DU, 11am-12 noon. Tickets as above.
Sunday 2 February : ‘Nature Crisis’
‘Nature Crisis’ environmental poetry reading at this time of deep concern for nature with Ros Woolner, Tom Allsopp, Cherry Doyle, Kuli Kohli & Simon Fletcher at the Art Gallery, Lichfield St, Wolverhampton WV1 1DU, 1-2pm. Tickets as above.
Tuesday 4 February : The Poetry Readers’ Group
The Poetry Readers’ Group meets at the White Hart, 10, Wharfage, Ironbridge, Telford, TF8 7AW, 2-4 pm, and the theme will be the galaxy, stars, sun and moon etc.
For more information about the new venue or the event contact Paul Francis: francisliberty@btinternet.com
