Click Clack: a new open-mic in Harrogate

Click Clack is a new alternative open-mic night in Yorkshire. It takes place every Monday at The Iron Duke, Cold Bath Road, Harrogate, HG2 0N. Entry is FREE and sign-up for performers starts around 8pm.

Anything goes at Click Clack though we do prefer alternative, odd, funny, experimental performance, but this can be in any form : poetry, comedy, music (no drums though!). So all you poets, ranters, comedians, singers, musicians, short film makers, photographers, mime artists, glockenspiel virtuosos, didgeridoo players, artists, ex-darts champions, walrus impersonators, please come down and share your talents with us.

If you'd like a guest spot please get in touch with me via ashleyreaks@hotmail.com or at http://www.myspace.com/clickclackopenmic

Herbert Williams Wrestles in Mud: Cardiff, Thursday 14th June

Herbert Williams book launch: Wrestling in Mud

The Glanfa, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff
7.30pm
Thursday 14th June

Join Herbert Williams and Cinnamon Press, supported by Academi, for the Cardiff launch of Wrestling in Mud: New & Selected Poems.

Free entry. www.academic.org

Wrestling in Mud is Herbert's long overdue collection spanning five decades of excellent poetry writing. 'There's a sense of history here,' comments Ruth Bidgood, 'but also poems that do indeed sing a greeting to the future.' The new poems display a poet who, as Ifor Thomas says, is, 'at the peak of his powers, a wise, reflective, mature poet who at the same time delights in being as scurrilous and acerbic as a thwarted teenager.'

ED: I salute any poet who can call their New & Selected Poems 'Wrestling in Mud'. Can't wait to see the cover image ...