Born of a Liverpool taste for variety and drama, ‘Storm and Golden Sky’ offers literary high style from across the poetic landscape; experimental, lyric, performance and all that is in-between, and brings them, two at a time, hand by hand, into the city bounds for a reading series which revels in the intensities and complexities of our art.

Programmed by a collective of Liverpool-based poets, Michael Egan, Nathan Jones, Robert Sheppard and Eleanor Rees, we aim for a literary experience felt in your bones as juxtaposition and surprise correspondence. New metaphors will be forged, similarities caught, trajectories flown.

Invited poets will read for substantial half-hour sets introduced by new works from the collective. Entrance includes a copy of the magazine ‘Veil the Pole’ edited by Michael Egan, featuring the invited poets and many others.

Last Friday of the Month (apart from occasional variation), Upstairs at the Caledonia pub, Catharine Street, in the Georgian Quarter, Liverpool, £5, 7 pm spot-on start!

28th Feb, Melissa Lee-Houghton and Crispin Best

21st March, Lee Harwood and tbc

25th April, Zoe Skoulding and Keston Sutherland

Future dates: May 30th, June 27th, July 25th and onwards!