Freaky Friday

There's no rest for the wicked. Today, Neil, Patrick and I are off to Birmingham Book Festival to perform a scaled-down version of 'A Pint for the Ghost' in the West Midlands. Then, tomorrow, I'm making the long journey to Barnstaple to perform a few poems from the show, amongst other work, for Apples & Snakes. Luckily, I've got some good reading matter, having purchased a book with the intriguing title 'Michael Jackson's Beer Companion' in London on Sunday. I can't find any evidence that it's by the late pop star, but it makes for an interesting read...

The week finishes with the launch of my tall-lighthouse pamphlet 'a pint for the ghost' on Friday 30th (the night before Halloween) upstairs in the spooky Betsey Trotwood pub, Farringdon. Joining me on stage will be John McCullough whose fantastic tall-lighthouse pamphlet is appropriately named 'the lives of ghosts', Michael McKimm whose first collection 'Still This Need' is full of haunting poems, and Tim Wells, whose cracking poems need no introduction and often feature that fine institution, the pub. We'll be taking to the mic from about 8pm, so please come and join us at The Betsey.

If you can't make it for Friday's merriment, but you'd like a copy of the pamphlet, you can get one online here. But you can't get a pint online, or try one of the Betsey's famous whiskies, which make the perfect companion to ghost stories!