Thursday 21st March is World Poetry Day, and we have just the thing to whet your appetite! TOP HAT SPOKEN WORD OPEN MIC arrives in the Garrick Studio tonight at 7pm, and is sure to be a wonderful night of sharing and performance. If you would like to perform simply turn up and add your name to the list at the door. Our wonderful host and organiser, Joss Musgrove-Knibb, will then pull names out of a top hat to give everyone a fair chance to have their moment in the spotlight. If you don't wish to

MARCH 21ST - CELEBRATING WORLD POETRY DAY with Rob reading 'Lying by a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm in Pine Land" by James Wright. Over my head, I see the bronze butterfly, asleep on the black trunk, blowing like a leaf in green shadow. Down the ravine behind the empty house, the cowbells follow one another, into the distances of the afternoon. To my right, in a field of sunlight between two pines, the droppings of last year's horses blaze up into golden stones. I lean back, as the evening da