Launch of Poet Town

“These poems hit you in the eye like an arrow. At turns funny, melancholyand celebratory – there’s all of life in these pages.”

Luke Wright

(tickets for the event plus book are now sold out - but the books will be on sale to buy at the festival bookshop)

Poet Town is not your typical local poetry anthology as the most cursory glance at the contents makes clear. Among those included are bestselling and prize-winning authors like Iain Sinclair, Salena Godden, AK Benedict, Orna Ross, Penny Pepper; a million-selling children’s poet, Brian Moses; a legend of British TV comedy, Henry Normal, writer and producer for hit shows like The Royle Family and Gavin and Stacy; a former band mate of Eric Clapton, the British Beat poet and songwriter Pete Brown; a renowned cartoonist, Martin Honeysett, and classic poets known and loved the worldover.

These stars of page and screen have…