The eagerly anticipated Nottingham Poetry Festival returns from 26 April until 5 May. Get ready to experience a range of fantastic spoken word events from some of the country’s best-loved poets across the city.

Bard of Barnsley, Ian McMillan hosts weekly hit radio show The Verb. He’s Poet-in-Residence for Barnsley FC, The Academy of Urbanism and, until recently, English National Opera. He’s a regular on BBC Breakfast, Pointless Celebrities, Coast, Countryfile, Pick of the Week, Last Word, The Yorkshire Dales and The Lakes (C4). He was featured on The South Bank Show, and cast away on Desert Island Discs. His rip-roaring poetry shows are legendary. Cats make him sneeze. Support comes from local poets, publishers, enablers and all round good eggs, Anne Holloway and Jim Otieno-Hall.