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The Plough Arts Centre are delighted to welcome their much valued Patron Sir Michael Morpurgo on Friday, June 2, at 7.30pm when he will be presenting An Evening.
Acclaimed Sheffield poet John Birtwhistle launches his book Partial Shade: Poems New And Selected (published by Manchester's Carcanet Press) at the Broomhill Oxfam Shop at noon on Saturday July 1, when he will read a few poems and sign copies with all profits to Oxfam.
When Simon Armitage left his job as a probation worker to become a full-time poet his dad was horrified. Is the former young subversive turned royal appointee now part of the establishment?
Following in the footsteps of his late mother, the new monarch has resurrected Queen Elizabeth s tradition of holding a pre-Easter dinner party and sleep over at his Berkshire residence.