On the day this extraordinary new play about the life and work of World War II poet Keith Douglas debuts in Hay-on-Wye, The Poetry Bookshop welcomes its writer Owen Sheers, director John Retallack and the actor Dan Krikler in conversation, with a short reading from the play followed by a book signing.

Written by Owen Sheers and directed by John Retallack UNICORNS, ALMOST tells the life story of Keith Douglas from his childhood idolising an absent father, through four engagements to marry, his fighting in the Western desert as a tank commander, his accelerated education as a poet to his early death three days after the D-Day landings in Normandy at the age of just 24.

Tickets for the play are available from The Poetry Bookshop or online.