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The longest running regular poetry event in Berkshire, created by the marvellous Susan Utting in the mid-'90s,
is currently being organised, hosted and compered by A. F. Harrold.

In the summer of 2005 it moved to a new, slightly larger venue, with comfortable seats, several toilets, subdued lighting, a stage
and the same high quality poetry, in the form both of the open mic and the specially invited guest poets.

Poets' Cafe is held at South Street Arts Centre, South Street, Reading on the third Friday of every month.
Doors open at 8pm, poetry begins at 8.30.
Entry fee is £6 for normal people or £4 for concessionary people and poets.

Here's a review/feature by the BBC about Poets' Cafe, just in case I've not given a true picture of it myself here.

Friday May 16th 2008

Victoria Pugh
(hosted by guest host Susan Utting)

Friday June 220th 2008

Todd Swift

Friday July 18th 2008

Kate Noakes

Friday August 15th 2008

Open Mic Summer Special

Friday September 19th 2008

Maggie Sawkins

Friday October 17th 2008

Ros Barber

Friday November 21st 2008

Niall O'Sullivan

Friday December 19th 2008

Paul Lyalls

Friday January 16th 2009

Matt Harvey

The guests at Poets' Cafe since 2004 have been Catherine Smith, Aoife Mannix, Jo Bell, John Hegley, Neil Rollinson, Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch, Michael Laskey, John Stammers, Rob Evans, Clare Pollard, Lorraine Mariner, Gill Learner, Jane Holland, Susan Utting, Christopher Reid, Carmen Bugan, C.L. Dallat, Myra Schneider, Helen Farish, Alan Buckley, George Roberts, Anne-Marie Fyfe, Polly Clark, Esther Morgan, Roddy Lumsden, Eva Salzman, Sara-Jane Arbury, Brendan Cleary, Bernard O'Donoghue, Elizabeth Garrett, Choman Hardi, Jane Griffiths, Andre Mangeot, Jane Draycott, Peter Wyton, Philip Wells (The Fire Poet), Late Shift (Susan Utting & Rob Evans), Kate Clanchy, Joe Butler, Mario Petrucci, Matthew Hollis, Roselle Angwin...