Soup Talks Archives | The Farmer's Arms

Poetry Reading and Open Mic with Ilse Pedler and Kerry Darbishire

Come and meet local poets and writers for an informal evening of readings. Bring your own work, a favourite poem to share, or just listen and enjoy. This month’s guest...

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February

2026

- 19 Feb 2026

Soup Talks

Soup Talk and Book Launch: Patricia Townsend

Patricia Townsend will be talking about the process of writing and producing her new book ‘Bridging Time 1944-2024: Letters to my father’ She writes: ‘My father, Sam Townsend, served...

Workshops & Courses, Soup Talks

Poetry Reading and Open Mic with Ilse Pedler and Rebecca Bilkau

Come and meet local poets and writers for an informal evening of readings. Bring your own work, a favourite poem to share, or just listen and enjoy. This month’s guest...

Workshops & Courses, Soup Talks

Poetry Writing Workshop: Expansion and Contraction

Come and explore how poets write the big and the small, how they ‘see a world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wild flower’ Using poems and...

Workshops & Courses, Soup Talks

Poetry Reading and Open Mic with Ilse Pedler and Patricia Townsend

Come and meet local poets and writers for an informal evening of readings. Bring your own work, a favourite poem to share, or just listen and enjoy. This month’s guest...