Soup Talks Archives | The Farmer's Arms

Poetry Reading and Open Mic with Ilse Pedler

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. Due to bereavement...

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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...

Soup Talk: Who Pays for The Lake District?

Visitor Levies in the Lake District: unpacking tourist taxes The Chancellor’s Autumn Budget announced that English Mayors will soon have the power to implement a tourist tax on overnight stays...

Soup Talk: Dr Kai Heron

Dr Kai Heron is a Lecturer in Political Ecology at Lancaster University. He writes, teaches, and researches about the thorny problem of transitioning away from today’s exploitative and ecologically...

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...