‘Virtual Voices’ with Kuli Kohli and Simon Fletcher plus Nick Pearson & Marion Cockin and some of the ‘tree’ anthology poets, 5-6.30pm. Plus open mics as usual. This is a pay-as-you-feel event.

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Emma Purshouse, and her fellow Pandemonialists will be MCing the Wolverhampton Literature Festival Poetry Slam at Arena Theatre, Wulfruna St, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SE starting at 7.30pm. 15 poets go head-to-head in a live poetry competition.

Tickets are £15 (£12 concession) available from the Arena online box office.

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

Book now for Haiku Moments workshop with David Bingham in Bishop’s Castle on Thursday 19 February (11.30am-1pm). Places are limited!

David Bingham will be at the Poetry Pharmacy Lab, High St, Bishop’s Castle, SY9 5BQ, to lead a workshop about the history of haiku and write a contemporary piece for the Bishop’s Castle Arts Festival. David will lead us through activities to learn about the Japanese origins of haiku and the characteristics of contemporary haiku written in English. Participants will be invited to write contemporary haiku in English and share the haiku they have written. They will also learn about where to follow up the session, if they wish, by sending haiku for publication and how to become involved in local and national haiku activities.

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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.