Tony 'The Great' Boltini

I had a fabulous night at The Red Shed Readings on Thursday this week - many thanks to hosts John Irving Clark and Jimmy Andrex for organising it.

Sharing the stage with me that night was Lancashire born poet Tony 'The Great' Boltini. I've read alongside Tony a couple of times now, and the man's something of a legend around these parts. Yet Tony has never published a collection. Perhaps it's partly for that reason that he isn't more well-known. Here are a couple of videos of him in action from The Red Shed this week.



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Red Shed Readings

Really excited to announce that I'll be making an appearance at the Wakefield Red Shed on October 3rd. The Red Shed Readings series "is the venue for the finest spoken word event in the area. It is governed by two key unwritten rules: on no account must any degree of pretension creep in and elitism is equally forbidden." Previous guest speakers at the Red Shed Readings have included Helen Mort, David Peace, and Ian Macmillan. Apparently impossible to get to by SatNav (it says so on the Red Shed Readings website), so I'd suggest heading towards Wakey Market, then asking the first person you see how to get there. I think it is probably £2 in or something like that. Currently Reading Train Dreams Denis Johnson The Clothes On Their Backs Linda Grant