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Sunday 11th July. Offa's Press will be at the last day of the Ledbury Poetry Festival. I will be performing River Passage from 2pm to 2.15pm with live backing on the piano from Dan Phelps in the Festival Common Room.
Emma Purshouse will be on from 12.15 to 12.30 and Jane Seabourne from 3.45 to 4.00. Simon Fletcher will be giving the Offa's Press Editor's talk from 10.15 to 10.45. All in the Festival Common Room, Ledbury.

Thursday 29th July. As part of the Shrewsbury Summer Season, Offa's Press will be at Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury at 7.30pm including a live performance of River Passage and great sets as always from Jane and Emma.

Saturday 28th August. Offa's Press will be performing in Bridgnorth Library, Listley Street from 4pm as part of Bridgnorth Music and Arts Festival 2010.

Thursday 2nd September. I will be at Bridgnorth Library, Listley Street from 6pm onwards to talk about my novels and to chat about more or less anything to do with reading and writing. This is also part of the Bridgnorth Music and Arts Festival 2010.

SUNNY SATURDAY AT MORVILLE

Last Sunday I did an outdoor performance of River Passage and a few of my other poems as part of a fund raising event for the next Wenlock Poetry Festival. Dan couldn't be there (see link below) to provide the piano music backing so it was down to the piano-only CD again. I was in excellent company. Gabrielle Drake read from The Morville Hours by Katherine Swift, and there were readings from Paul Henry, Rosie Bailey, Mark Niel, Kamina Banga and Imtiaz Darka - all in the lovely surroundings of the Dower House gardens at Morville, near Bridgnorth.

Loads of fresh strawberries were eaten with cream and there was fizzy pink stuff in glasses. The audience shirked in the shade of the trees and bushes while the poets strutted their stuff in the sun. Thanks to all friends for attending and to Nadia Kingsley for these photos which capture the day and the atmosphere so beautifully.

River Passage is now available as a CD with music by Dan Phelps. It's one of the first three productions from the brand new West Midlands poetry press Offa's Press.