Monday 21 November : ’Keele Readings’
Emma Purshouse will be performing at 7.30pm in the Senior Common Room, Keele University, Staffordshire ST5 5BG. Free event, all welcome.
Contact: arts@keele.ac.uk or 01782 734340
Thursday 24 November : ’The Bakehouse Celebrates Book Week Scotland’
Emma Purshouse and Steve Pottinger will be performing at 7.30pm at 44, High Street, Gatehouse of Fleet, DG7 2HP. Tickets £8. To book.
Email: chrys@chryssalt.com or tel/text: 0891 803027
Friday 25 November : ‘Writing people and place: making the ordinary, extraordinary’
Emma Purshouse and Steve Pottinger will be running a writing workshop on ‘Writing people and place: making the ordinary, extraordinary’ followed by a light lunch, 10.30am-1pm at The Bakehouse, 44, High Street, Gatehouse of Fleet, DG7 2HP. Tickets £8.
To book, email: chrys@chryssalt.com or tel/text: 0891 803027
Saturday 26 November : Virtual Voices
Join us for chat and poetry with Sheryl McMahon, Peter Sutton, Santosh K. Dary & Nick Pearson on ‘Virtual Voices’, 5-6.30pm, via Zoom. The link will be found on Offa’s ‘events’ page:
ZOOM LINK
Contributions may be made here…
Ironbridge Festival of the Imagination 2022

More information and Tickets available here…
Saturday 1 October : Punjabi Women’s Writers’ Group
Including Santosh K. Dary, Parveen Brigue, Priyanka Joshi & Kuli Kohli share their extraordinary poetry of personal conflict, overcoming society’s expectations, amazing achievement and love. The Bolthole cafe, 2.30-4pm. Tickets £5.
Saturday 1 October : Poets, Prattlers and Pandemonialists
Emma Purshouse, Steve Pottinger and Dave Pitt will be hosting the Ironbridge Festival Poetry Slam at 8pm. This is an in-person event and will take place in a spiegeltent in Dale End Park, Coalbrookdale TF8 7EG. Tickets £10.
Thursday 6 October : ‘New Voices’ – National Poetry Day
National Poetry Day, the ‘New Voices’ poets will be reading at Central Library, Snow Hill, Wolverhampton, WV1 3AX, 5-6pm.
Free event and all welcome.
Friday 7 October : Poetry on Loan
Jeff Phelps will be reading his poetry at a Poetry on Loan event at Wordsley Library, Wordsley Green, Wordsley DY8 5BN at 10.30am.
Free event.






































