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!

Poetry Writing Workshop at Pant on the theme of ‘birds’ with Kuli Kohli and Simon Fletcher. We’ll be sharing ways to write poetry about birds (symbolic, metaphorical and ecological) and the workshop will include a short walk in the nearby nature reserve.

Meet at Pant village hall, Pant, near Oswestry, Shropshire, SY10 9QG, 10am-4pm. Bring your own lunch and sensible clothing. A pair of binoculars would be good, also. Refreshments will be provided.

Tickets £25/£20. There is ample parking at the hall. For more info please email: info@offaspress.co.uk

Kuli Kohli was a keen member of the Young Ornithologists’ Club as a child and is now an RSPB supporter. Simon’s a member of the Shropshire Wildlife Trust.