POEM and A Pint is out and about in the Furness area for its next gig, with Water Yeat Village Hall, at Blawith, providing the platform for the event on Saturday, June 2 (7.30pm).

Guest poet will be Caroline Carver and there will be open floor slots as well as music from Louise Mary Martin.

MC will be Gill Nicholson.

For the record, Caroline Carver was born in England, was evacuated by convoy to Bermuda in 1940, and then moved to Jamaica.

She returned to school in England as a teenager, before emigrating to Canada.

Thirty years on and she's back, living in Cornwall, with her husband, a dog, two cats and four hens.

She only started writing poetry in the 1990s, and went on to win the National Poetry Competition in 1998. She was shortlisted two years later for the Forward Prize best single poem.

Her first collection, Jigharzi An Me, came out in 2000, and was followed by Bone-Fishing in 2006.

Her writing has been published in many literary journals, both in the UK and abroad, and she has penned several commissioned poems.

Admission to the Water Yeat poetry and music night is £4/concessions £3.