Monthly Archives: September 2021

Former Walsall Poet Laureate To Perform At Shrewsbury Food Festival

A former Walsall Poet Laureate is due to appear at Shrewsbury Food Festival on 4th September to champion mental health. Alongside other Walsall poets including Phil Buckley, Tina Cox, Julia Dean-Richards, Angela Wood  Maurice Malcolm and Elliot Parker there will be spoken word performances, workshops and a community poem on the theme of mental health […]

A local solicitor

Former Walsall Poet Laureate To Perform At Mile of Smiles

A local solicitor, poet and playwright is celebrating after receiving additional Arts Council England funding for his play based on the largely ignored story of the Chinese Labour Corps who served thousands of miles from their homeland in the foreign mud and trenches of the Western Front. It is estimated that between 1917 – 1920 […]