This poem was greatly admired by a number of people at the Let Me Speak event on 22 March. Campion Rollinson has now sent it, and you can r...

Richard Wilcocks writes: Food appears to be playing an increasingly important part in the LitFest. We began in a restaurant this year, co...

Sheila Chapman writes: A member of the audience said that The Shire Oak Room at HEART ‘had the enticing atmosphere of a New York Jazz Cl...

Richard Wilcocks writes: Trio Literati provided plenty of gourmet material on Friday evening. Everything was professionally prepa...

Mary Francis writes: Persephone Books reprints neglected novels, diaries, short stories and cookery books by women writers such as Doro...