Jo Shapcott and Daljit Nagra in Woodstock, Oxfordshire

The Woodstock Bookshop and Tower Poetry are presenting an evening of poetry at The Woodstock Arms, 8 Market Street, Woodstock on Wednesday 25 August at 8pm.

Entry is £4 (students free) but all tickets must be booked in advance from The Woodstock Bookshop, 01993 812760 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

(Saturday 27 March)

Don Paterson teaches at the University of St Andrews and is poetry editor for Picador. His most recent poetry collection, Rain, was the winner of the 2009 Forward Poetry Prize. Stephen Romer is a lecturer at the University of Tours in France and will be Visiting Fellow at All Souls in Trinity Term 2010. A translator and an anthologist of modern French poetry, his latest collection is Yellow Studio (2008), which was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize.

Poetry and War (Friday 26 March)

Winner of the 2005 Forward Poetry Prize with Legion, David Harsent's poetry includes versions of the work of Bosnian poet Goran Simic, notably Sprinting from the Graveyard (1997), written during the siege of Sarajevo. Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Oxford, Jon Stallworthy's works include seven volumes of poetry, and biographies of Wilfred Owen and Louis MacNeice and most recently Survivors' Songs. Elaine Feinstein is a prizewinning poet, novelist and biographer. She has written more than thirty books. Her latest collection of poems, Cities, comes out from Carcanet in June 2010. Tim Kendall is Professor of English Literature at the University of Exeter, and author of a collection of poems, a war-poetry blog, and several books on modern war poetry.

Francine Stock presents Radio 4's The Film Programme and is currently writing her third novel.

(Thursday 25 March)

Former Head of English and Director of NATE (the National Association for the Teaching of English) and the creator of the Poetry Place website, Trevor Millum showed teachers, parents - indeed anyone with an interest in words - how to encourage the more able (and motivate the more reluctant) student to enjoy the reading and writing of poetry.

(Tuesday 23 March)

Michael Longley is one of today's most celebrated poets. He has published eight collections of poetry, including Gorse Fires, which won the Whitbread Prize, and The Weather in Japan, which won both the Hawthornden Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize. His most recent collection, Snow Water, won the Librex Montale Prize, and in 2001 he received the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry.  His reading drew a large audience of poetry lovers.