Past Events

Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists bring their improvised poetry show to Wolverhampton Literature Festival Fringe Room.

Join us for an improvised poetry show. Taking a random theme from the audience, one of the Poets, Prattlers, and Pandemonialists (Emma, Steve or Dave) step forward to deliver a piece of their poetry that links to this… and then the others follow on, creating a poetry chain of thought. Sometimes members of the audience join in! It’s fast-paced, manic and some of the links are tenuous to say the least but it’s an immense amount of fun for audiences and poets alike.

Emma and Steve will performing a set of poetry each at Well Spoken.

Virtual Voices for October will feature Karen Evans, Fraser Scott, Emma Purshouse, and Jeff Phelps.

Emma will be performing poetry alongside Steve Pottinger, John McCullough, and Jamie H Scrutton aka Hattie Go Lucky.

Emma will be running a poetry writing workshop from 3 – 5 at Central Library in Wolverhampton.  Come along and get that pen moving!

The workshop will be followed by an open mic event later that evening hosted by Casey Bailey and Sophie Sparham.

Both events are being put on by Bad Betty Press.

Reading’s longest-running and best-loved poetry platform, Poets’ Café, is organised and hosted by The Poetry Society’s Reading Stanza.

Tickets £5

For more information visit www.poetscafereading.co.uk

Guest poet will will be Emma Purshouse.  Open mics available.

Join Emma and award winning poet, Steve Pottinger, for an afternoon of first-class performance.  Expect witty, intelligent, and accessible wordsmithery.

Emma Purshouse and Steve Pottinger write ‘Poetry on Demand’ for the people of Whitchurch.  Roaming poets will be wandering around creating Free poems as part of Blackberry Fair shennanigans.

Emma will be performing with Steve Pottinger at Albrighton Library in Staffordshire the day before National Poetry Day.  This performance is a Poetry on Loan event.