Open Mic Extra event hosted by Nick Pearson at the Gratitude Café, 10 Duke Street, Wellington, TF1 1BJ, at 7pm. The guest poet will be Colin Wells, who will be reading from his upcoming collection. Open mic slots are available – poets can sign up on the night or email Nick beforehand at nk.pearson@btinternet.com. Refreshments available. A pay-as-you-feel event.

‘Virtual Voices’ featuring Simon Fletcher reading from a prose memoir, Natalie Linh Bolderston and one more guest tbc. With open mic-ers. Email kuli.kohli@hotmail.co.uk to sign up for a 3-min open mic slot! Hosted by Simon Fletcher and Kuli Kohli. Pay-as-you-feel event on Zoom.

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‘Fire & Dust’ poetry open mic with headliner Kuli Kohli on the ground floor of Priory Visitor Centre, 6 Priory Row, Coventry, CV1 5EX at 7.30-10pm. Free event. All welcome.

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

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

‘It’s Honorary, Bab / A Battered Chip on my Shoulder’ Emma Purshouse and Dave Pitt will be appearing in a double bill at the Arena Theatre, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1SE, 7.30-10pm.

Emma’s show is about being poet laureate for Wolverhampton in the middle of a global pandemic. She explores the wonders of the much-maligned city of Wolverhampton from the points of view of such characters as the Man on the Oss, Red Emma and Catherine Eddowes’ tin box.

Tickets £15 (£12 concession)

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Tom Alsopp will be playing a lead role in Tower Players’ production of ‘Funny Money’, a farce by Ray Cooney at Rugeley Rose Theatre, Taylor’s Lane, Rugeley, WS15 2AA at 7.30pm. Tickets cost £15 and can be bought from www.chasetickets.co.uk

‘Country Voices’ with Chris Collins, Fraser Scott, Steve Harrison and Kuli Kohli. at the Ironbridge Bookshop & Book Nook, 4-5, the Square, Ironbridge, Telford, TF8 7AQ, 6-7.30pm.

Tickets (to include refreshments) are £6 from the shop.