There will be wit, verve, and eroticism plus poems about getting older, dementia - yes, all mixed together.

Readers will be Wendy Klein who has a collection Mood Indigo out now, Debra Watson who has just published Laments and Incantations, Rose Rouse, co-founder of Advantages of Age who will be performing a suite of mini-poems called 'A Song for an Old Woman', Beatrice Garland who won the National Poetry Prize in 2001 and will be reading from her collection The Drum, Matt Brown who will be reading some of his moving poems about nature, and Caroline Cadenza who has recently published her own collection Metaphorplay which she also illustrated.