City Voices returns to the Lighthouse, Fryer Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1HT, 7.30-9pm for the live launch of the New Voices anthology.

A sparkling evening of new West Midland poetry with Tom Allsopp, Anne Babbs, Gracey Bee, Santosh K. Dary, Priyanka Joshi , Kenton Samuels & Fraser Scott.

Free event. All welcome.

Jeff Phelps will be a special guest at Wenlock Books’ online version of Poetry Breakfast with poetry on the theme of Between Places. It starts at 9am and runs for approximately an hour. Guide price for attendance at the zoom event: £5.

Reserve a place here…

Country Voices with Jood Gough, Brendan Hawthorne & Jane Seabourne, 2.30-4pm. A great afternoon of poetry and entertainment at the Water Rat, Buildwas Road, Ironbridge, TF8 7BJ. MC Simon Fletcher.

Tickets £5 on the door.

Virtual Voices moves to the 4th Saturday of the month and a new time. This month we have Kenton Samuels, Pat Leighton, David Bingham and Vera Constantineau from Copper Cliff, Canada. 5.00-6.30pm on Zoom.

Contributions welcome via our shop

ZOOM LINK

Emma Purshouse will be performing in Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists’ new show at Morecambe Fringe at 5.15pm.

Playhouse 21C Yorkshire St W, West End, Morecambe LA3 1QE

Michael W. Thomas will be launching Sing Ho! Stout Cortez: Novellas and Stories (Black Pear Press) in person at the Hive Studio, the Hive, Sawmill Close, The Butts, Worcester WR1 3PD, 3.30pm for 4pm start.

Kuli Kohli will be performing at the Onyx Collective launch (with Disability Arts Online), AUTOGRAPH Rivington Pl, EC2A 3BA London. The event will be livestreamed 6-8.30pm.

The link to register will be available here…

The Opening Ceremony of the Commonwealth Games from Birmingham will include the covers of some of Offa’s Press’s books. This is an amazing opportunity for Offa’s Press books to be seen around the world. Look out for these on the BBC from 8pm!