Nick Pearson is hosting an Open Mic Event at the Gratitude Cafe, Duke Street, Wellington, TF1 1BJ. 7pm for a 7.30pm start. 4-minute slots available – sign up on the night. Refreshments available. Pay-as-you-feel donations at the end of the night. All poets welcome.

The Poetry Readers’ Group meets at the White Hart, 10, Wharfage, Ironbridge, Telford, TF8 7AW, 2-4 pm, and the theme will be ‘Memory’.

For more information contact Paul Francis: francisliberty@btinternet.com

Emma Purshouse will be judging the Yaffle Press Poetry Competition which closes for entries on 5th April 2025.  The theme is ‘Best Song of All Time’.

For more information see www.yafflepress.co.uk/yaffle-s-nest-competition

‘Trees’ workshop with Simon Fletcher & Kuli Kohli in the Wyre Forest, Shropshire. Meet at the car park at Earnwood Copse on the Button Oak Road (B4194) 2 miles northwest of Bewdley. 11am – 2pm. Bring lunch & refreshments as we’ll stop for a writing session/ picnic.

Tickets (£5) can be paid for on the day. Contact Simon if you want to attend or need further information.

Simon and Kuli are editing an anthology, ‘Seeing the Trees, and the Woods’, for Offa’s Press to be published this autumn.

‘City Voices’ with Paul Harvey, Teresa Heeks, David Calcutt, Marion Cockin & John Woodall 7.30-9pm, at the ‘Lych Gate’, 44, Queen Square, Wolverhampton, WV1 1TX, 7.30-9pm. Tickets £5 on the door.

Emma Purshouse will be one of the support poets for Hollie McNish at Ludlow Assembly Rooms, Market Square, Ludlow, SY8 1AS, at 7.30pm.

Tickets £15 – selling fast.

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Hollie McNish is a poet whose live readings are not to be missed. After a run of sold-out shows up and down the UK, she is back with the paperback tour of Lobster and other things I’m learning to love. A Sunday Times bestselling book.

Michael W. Thomas and Tina Cole are launching their joint collection, Nothing Louche or Bohemian (Black Pear Press), at 4pm at the Worcester Quaker Meeting House, Sansome Place, Worcester, WR1 1UG.

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