GUEST poet at Ulverston's Poem and a Pint event on Saturday (February 10) will be Helen Farish, who was winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection in 2005, and has been shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize.

Staged as part of this year's Word Market Festival, Ann Wilson will make her final performance as 2006 South Cumbria Poet Laureate, and this year's title winner will be crowned.

MC Ross Baxter will lead proceedings, which will be under the spotlight at Lanternhouse from 7.30pm. Admission will be £4/concessions £3.

Another cracking Word market event features on Sunday (February 11) - Writing for Radio.

Running at Lanternhouse from noon until 3pm, the half-day session offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes tour of how Red Sky Writers' successful radio drama, Heft Like The Herdwick - which was broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2006 - was written, commissioned and finally recorded on location in Cumbria.

Led by Jack Bradley, literary manager at the National Theatre, it will be a practical session looking at dramatic structures, how to make them and break them. Admission will be £25/£20 Word Market members.

For further Word Market Festival information and booking details, telephone 07812-172193.