Two of the UK’s top performers are to make an appearance at The Ferret. Comedian Jonny Pelham is going to bring his touring show, while poet Toria Garbutt is to […]
September will see three of the UK’s best poets head to Preston for the biggest month of spoken-word performance in the city’s history. Acclaimed Manchester-based poet Tony Walsh will perform […]
A new collection of poems examining the effects and aftermath of a third world war has been released by Preston-based poet Terry Quinn. ‘Notes on the Cause of the Third […]
Francis Thompson (named after Francis of Assisi) was born 18th December 1859 at No. 7 Winckley Street, Preston, to devout catholic parents. His father Charles was a homeopathic doctor and […]
It may be Burns Night tonight (25 January, the annual celebration in Scotland of life of the bard Robert Burns) but another poet named Robert had an equal global following. […]