Wednesday, 20 March, 6.30 PM, Poetry Café, 22 Betterton Street, London WC2H 9BX.

Linda Black’s exhibition of drawings and prints draws on her new book, The Son of a Shoemaker’ (Hearing Eye, 2012). The sequence of nineteen prose poems,based on the early life of Hans Christian Andersen, is illustrated by the author. The exhibition includes other illustrations and etchings. There will be a reading and a musical performance.