Keith Armstrong’s birthday bash, with poets from Limerick and the North East (including Katrina Porteous, Catherine Graham, Michael Standen and Paul Summers) launching a Tyneside/Limerick anthology. Plus: performance poet Nod, Trevor Teasdel, Elaine Feeney, William Martin, from Cumbria Geraldine Green, from Cork Paul Casey, from Aberdeen Howarth Hodgkinson. Plus music from Gary Miller, Dave Douglass, Marie Little, Tony Whittle, Kiddar’s Luck, The Ancient Mariners and Ann Sessoms on Northumbrian Pipes.

Admission free

The Bridge Hotel
Castle Square
Newcastle upon Tyne
Tyne and Wear
NE1 1RQ