As I write this I have just been listening to Simon Armitage reading extracts from his book, Walking Home, relating how he walked the Pennine Way in reverse, without a penny in his pocket and busking for his supper. The reading was superb, and was in the Marsden Mechanics where we hold our Write Out Loud/ Kirklees Libraries poetry nights, third Wednesday monthly, 7.30-9.30pm, with optional post-poetry chat in the famous Riverhead brewery pub. We are back from our summer break with a bang on Wednesday 19 September to start another season of wonderful poetry there, and aiming to encourage more of you to write and share your words with our really friendly group. All welcome. As we often have a theme, how do you fancy writing something relating to events that occurred on that day, 19 September, in history? Allegedly that’s the day Keats published his ode To Autumn (1819) and the US carried out its first underground nuclear test (1957)  Bizarrely, it is also International Talk like a Pirate Day. I will also give a short discourse about, and poems from, another poet. Map