Thanks Laura! An exciting day: elementalpoetrycambridge.org has all the details of workshops, anthologies, support for local schools. Applications already flooding in! If you’re in range of our city and care about our planet, join us!

I’ll be at The White Bear Kennington this Saturday 18th for an onstage chat with Jo Nevin, a star of a new production, opening tonight, of Jez Butterworth’s strange shapeshifter of a play The River. Expect poetry (Ted Hughes, WB Yeats), sea trout and what they can become: deeply, truly fishy talk