Poetry Readers Group meets at the White Hart, 10, Wharfage, Ironbridge, Telford, TF8 7AW, 2-4 pm, and the theme will be ‘favourites’. For more information contact Paul Francis: francisliberty@btinternet.com

‘City Voices’ at the ‘Lych Gate’, 44, Queen Square, Wolverhampton, WV1 1TX, 7.30-9pm. Free entry featuring Marion Cockin, Nick Pearson, Jane Seabourne, Jeff Phelps & Emma Purshouse. After 23 years, this will be Simon’s last night as MC of ‘City Voices’. All welcome.

‘A Christmas Country Voices’, with Nick Pearson, Kerry Hadley-Pryce & Hermione Sandall/ Simon Fletcher, plus refreshments, at the Ironbridge Bookshop & Book Nook, 4-5 The Square, Ironbridge, TF8 7AQ.
6.00-7.30pm.

Tickets are £6 available from the bookshop and on the door.

‘Seeing the Trees and the Woods’ event with Simon and Kuli plus local ‘tree poets’ at Church Stretton Library, Church Street, Church Stretton, Shropshire, SY6 6DQ, 2-3pm.

Free event. All welcome.

To celebrate National Tree Week, Simon and Kuli will be joined by a selection of ‘tree poets’ at Waterstones, 13-15 Victoria Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 3NP, 2-3pm.

Tickets are £3 available in store or on the door. Please call 01902 427219 on the day to check availability.

Priyanka Joshi will feature in ‘A Game of Three Halves’ – Roundabout Fringe Wolverhampton’ alongside Dave Pitt and Morgan Birch. Emma Purshouse will be MCing this evening of top-notch spoken word. 7-9.30pm upstairs at the Lych Gate Tavern, 44 Queen Square, Wolverhampton, WV1 1TX.

There will be 9 open mic slots available of a strict 5 minutes each. Sign up on the door, names will be drawn from a hat to see who gets to share their work.

This is a free event as part of Roundabout Fringe. Find out more about other events going on over the weekend of the 28th/29th/30th November at the link below.

FIND OUT MORE…

The Ironbridge Poetry Readers’ group meets at the White Hart, 10, Wharfage, Ironbridge, Telford, TF8 7AW, 2-4 pm, and the theme will be ‘tbc’. For more information contact Paul Francis: francisliberty@btinternet.com

Join Emma Purshouse and Steve Pottinger for an afternoon of top-notch spoken word 3-4pm at K Teas Café, 4 St Georges Parade, Wolverhampton, WV2 1BA.

Emma will be reading from her new collection, and Steve will be performing work from his recently re-printed collection. This is a free event. There will be books for sale should you be on the lookout for Christmas presents.

No need to book, just turn up. K Teas is an independent cafe with a great atmosphere and an amazing range of tea and cakes!

‘Seeing the Trees and the Woods’ anthology launch at ‘City Voices’ with Simon Fletcher & Kuli Kohli plus the local ‘tree poets’, 7.30-9pm, the ‘Lych Gate’, 44, Queen Square, Wolverhampton, WV1 1TX, 7.30-9pm.

Tickets £5 on the door.