Full house at tonight's #openmic in our @poetrycafeldn! It's a Christmassy one - we've heard poems about Xmas trees & family time and will soon hear from headliner Kareem Parkins-Brown.
Plus we've enjoyed some TERRIBLE cracker jokes thanks to host / Santa's little elf Billie
@canonlawyered@Neb_Phil I have just been buying cheese in Whitstable, Kent. The shop only sells British cheese!!! It’s got a huge range:… when I asked for Ayrshire… she looked scandalised and told me that was much too far away… I had no idea such a conversation was possible!
Dame Carol Ann Duffy @KathrynGray Rosemary Tonks and just about every seat in the house taken for https://t.co/N1TrWNPnzA Day 2. Plus - big shout out to Lydia Westwood, winner of #Medway schools' poetry competition
It was smashing to see you both last night Melissa. The wonderful Lewis’s have told me so much about you! Hope we get to talk more next time (or today even 🤩)! Yours is still the funniest show I have very seen ❤️
What an astonishing poem @CarolineBirdUK I did not know there was a new book…. I am on Amazon as I type 🤩…… as a relatively new Grandfather I can see this train hurtling towards us … Eeeek!
Just crying on the train at this stunning @CarolineBirdUK poem about the beautiful heartbreak of parenting, from her disgustingly good new book ‘Ambush at Still Lake’ with @Carcanet - highly recommend 💛