‘City Voices’ with Steve Corton, Pauline Llewellyn, David Bingham & the launch of Ripening Cherries, an anthology of ‘Japanese’ poetry, 7.30-9pm, at The Light House, Chubb Buildings, Fryer Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1HT.

Tickets £3 on the door.

‘pARTy Lines’, Ros Woolner will be taking part in a literary cabaret during the Birmingham Literature Festival at The Old Joint Stock, 4 Temple Row, Birmingham B2 5NY.

Tuesday October 8th, 8-9.30pm.

Tickets £5. birminghamliteraturefestival.org

‘Poetry Pass the Parcel’. Emma Purshouse will be appearing at this Poetry on Loan event with Poets, Prattlers and Pandemonialists. Emma Purshouse, Steve Pottinger, and Dave Pitt will take a given theme from the audience and run with it. Expect fun and funny, tenuous links, and occasional moments of thoughtfulness and poignancy.

Wednesday October 9th, 7 pm (refreshments from 6.45 pm). Stourbridge Library, Crown Centre, Stourbridge DY8 1YE.

Tickets £3 (phone 01384 812949 to reserve a ticket, then pay on the day).

‘Common People’ (a collection of essays, poems and memoir written by working-class writers). Emma Purshouse and other anthology contributors will be discussing their stories and what it means to be a working-class writer).

A Birmingham Literature Festival event. Thursday October 10th, 6-7pm in the Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building, University of Birmingham, Birmingham B15 2TT.

Tickets £10/£8. birminghamliteraturefestival.org

‘Floating Poetry’ Wildside Activity Centre are working with the Literature Festival to offer a boat trip with performance poet Emma Purshouse from 11am to 3pm.

See the Smestow Valley in autumn and write your own poems. Cost £12 per person plus booking fee. Age 14 plus.

Light refreshments available but guests need to bring a picnic lunch. Tickets are available from Ticketmaster only (search for Floating Poetry on Ticketmaster).

Saturday October 12th, Wildside Activity Centre, Hordern Road, Wolverhampton WV6 0HA.

‘Country Voices’ with Kenton Samuels, Chris Kinsey & the launch of Ripening Cherries, an anthology of ‘Japanese’ poetry, at the Meadow Inn, Buildwas Road, Ironbridge, TF8 7BJ, 2.30-4pm.

Tickets £4 on the door.

Paperverse. 10.30-13.00. Jeff Phelps and Marion Cockin will be running a free poetry/papercraft workshop at Wolverhampton Library, Snow Hill, Wolverhampton WV1 3AX.