MAGGIE Norton, Wild Women Poets, Mungrisdale Writers, Geraldine Green, Josephine Dickinson and Jennifer Copley are among the poets on the bill for a special fund-raising gig at the Bluebell Bookshop, at Penrith.

Staged on Thursday, January 27 (7.30pm-9.30pm), at the Angel Square venue, admission is free with all donations in aid of DEC, the Disasters Emergency Committee for the Tsunami Relief Fund.

Pledged poems have already been received from poets and poetry editors, such as Jim Bennett, John G. Hall and George Wallace.

For further information contact the Bluebell on 01768-866660.