Jeff Phelps is reading at the Merlin Theatre, Bath Rd, Frome BA11 2HG at 7.30pm alongside Rosie Jackson and Elvis McGonagall as part of the Frome Festival, Crysse Morrison Poetry Prize.

Tickets £7.50 (concessions £6) from 01373 465949

‘City Voices’ with Anne Babbs, Peter Hill, Gracey Bee, David Bingham & Kerry Hadley-Pryce who’ll be reading from her latest novel ‘God’s Country’. The Lych Gate, 44, Queen Square, Wolverhampton, WV1 1TX, 7.30-9pm.

Tickets £4 on the door.

Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists are bringing their new show ‘Whose Round Is It Anyway?’ to Underground at the Clubhouse, 3 Water Street, Buxton SK17 6XN as part of the Buxton Fringe, 4-4.50pm.

This show won an award for Best Spoken Word Show at Morecambe Fringe in the summer of 2022, the very first time it was performed.

Tickets £8.

Emma Purshouse will be appearing at Bilston Library, Mount Pleasant, Bilston WV14 7LU in an event organised by Poetry on Loan and Wolverhampton Libraries for Black Country Day.

If you’d like a unique Black Country poem written just for you right there and then, pop in between 11.00am and 1.30pm.

‘Country Voices’ with Teresa Heeks, John Woodall & Marion Cockin, at the ‘Water Rat’, Buildwas Road, Ironbridge, TF8 7BJ, 2.30-4pm. A variety of voices in a charming venue.

Tickets £5 on the door.

Monday 17 July John Sewell is reading at a Red Parrot Poetry event at Warden Court, St David’s Street, Presteigne at 7pm.

Michael W. Thomas is reading at Poetry Alight 47 at the Duke of York, Greenhill, Lichfield WS13 at 7.30pm.

Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists are bringing their new show ‘Whose Round Is It Anyway?’ to Underground at the Clubhouse, 3 Water Street, Buxton SK17 6XN as part of the Buxton Fringe, 2.30-3.20pm.

This show won an award for Best Spoken Word Show at Morecambe Fringe in the summer of 2022, the very first time it was performed.

Tickets £8.