The idea of getting out and about is gaining a little momentum. This seems like a good place to start (and yes, I've just realised that this in in fact, tomorrow)...

Our next Orange Street Poetry Night is on Sunday the 21st of June at 5:45pm. Entry as always is free, please come along and support your local writers. Creative writing groups and individuals are invited to bring promotional literature for their own events, and may also bring their own publications to sell on the night.

I shall of course be reporting back - either with a) lots of positive things to say or b) slamming the event from the top rope. I've always found these groups hit or miss with no in-between but this one I'm feeling pretty good about. I have been known to be wrong, but not often. Most interested in the quality of what's going on out there and maybe more so in the purpose... anyway, we shall see.

If all else fails and it sucks like a lemon, maybe it's time to form some kind of elite group that only performs once a year at a secret woodland location on the summer solstice. Now that is the kind of poetry group poets should want to be a member of. Maybe next year... being as that's also on Sunday. Then again, you only need two people to make a group. Would feel a bit of a loser going totally alone.