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Tea and Cake with Ian McMillan

Monday 12 May 2008, 2.00 pm
St Donats Arts Centre
Tickets: £4.00 / £3.00 (including free tea and cake)

Fancy spending a summer afternoon with a famous, charming and witty man who will read poetry to you in a beautiful setting whilst waiting on you with free tea and cake?

On Monday 12 May at 2.00 pm, one of the UK’s best known contemporary poets Ian McMillan will be visiting the stunning St Donats Arts Centre for one of their special Book Club events in which you get the chance to meet the man in the flesh.

Aside from his books, you’ll have heard his ‘fruity Barnsley accent’ on all the national BBC radio channels (recently listed the 22nd most powerful person in radio) as well as his weekly hit show The Verb on BBC Radio 3.

Ian McMillan, ‘the Charm of the North’, has also written for numerous newspapers and is currently Barnsley FC’s poet-in-residence, Humberside Police’s Beat Poet and Yorkshire TV’s Investigative Poet.

This special Book Club event is the culmination of Looking Over The Hill a poetry project as part of Gwanwyn – the Wales festival of arts and creativity for older people. A variety of groups have taken part by writing short pieces of poetry or prose on the subject of the present and the future.

Everyone is welcome to this informal Book Club event. Ian will select some of the pieces that have been submitted and perform his own work – wonderful pieces of word play that can be moving, touching, provocative and funny – and sometimes all of these at once. Of course, you’ll also be meeting the man, asking him questions and getting your books signed over plenty of free tea and cake.

Tickets cost £4 and £3 (including the free tea and cake)
To book contact John at the St Donats Box Office on
01446 799100 or visit www.stdonats.com