To celebrate ‘National Tree Week’ Simon Fletcher & Kuli Kohli will be running a poetry writing workshop ‘Celebrating Trees’ at Oswestry Library, Arthur Street, Oswestry, SY11, 1JN, 11am-1pm.

If you love trees and want to write about them then this is your opportunity. Simon and Kuli are editing an anthology ‘Seeing the Trees, and the Woods’ for Offa’s Press to be published in autumn 2025. Some of the work produced at this workshop may be considered for the anthology.

Tickets £5.

To register interest please tell the library or contact: info@offaspress.co.uk

‘Poetry Readers’ at the Bolthole Cafe, the Wharfage, Ironbridge, TF8 7AW 2-4pm. The theme is to be agreed. Free event. For more info Paul Francis: francisliberty@btinternet.com

Simon Fletcher will be reading at the launch of Southlight magazine #36 at Wigtown Book Festival, 4.30pm, at the County Buildings, Nature Room, Wigtown, Newton Stewart DG8 9JH.

Free event.

For more info go to wigtownbookfestival.com

‘City Voices’ with Cecilia Jones, Kenton Samuels and Jill Tromans & Jane Salmons who’ll be reading from her new Offa’s Press pamphlet, The Bridge, at the Lych Gate, 44, Queen Square, Wolverhampton, WV1 1TX, 7.30-9pm.

Tickets £5 on the door.

‘Green Libraries Week’ will be celebrated with some ‘Green Poetry’ with Kuli Kohli, Ros Woolner, Marion Cockin & Simon Fletcher at Penn Library, Wolverhampton, 11am-12 noon.

Come along and enjoy some ‘green’ poetry about nature, in gardens and the countryside. Free event and all welcome.

Simon will be reading some of his poems at an ‘Interweaving ‘ event with Trigger Bliss and Despina Ariou at the Pottery, Shineton Street, Much Wenlock, TF13 6HT. 7.30-9pm.

Tickets available from the GAWIE website…

‘Healing Nature’ Simon will be runnning a poetry writing workshop on ‘how nature heals us and how we can heal nature’. Workshoppers will be encouraged to share and write about their experiences of the benefits of nature and how we might all do more to benefit nature.

The workshop will be at the Fire Station, Smithfield Road, TF13 6BD, Much Wenlock, Shropshire, TF13 6BD. 10am-12noon & 2-4pm.

Tickets available from the GAWIE website…

‘Country Voices’ with Santosh K. Dary, John ‘Mogs’ Morris & Steve Pottinger at the ‘Water Rat’, Buildwas Road, Ironbridge, TF8 7BJ, 2.30-4pm. MC Simon.

Tickets £5 on the door.

‘Seeing the Trees’ workshop with Kuli Kohli & Simon Fletcher at the Shropshire Wildlife Trust, The Cut, 193 Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, SY2 6AH, 11am-1pm. Tickets £9.

For more info and to register interest contact: info@offaspress.co.uk