Poetry in Tonbridge? Yes please or Whatever....

No news on the Ivy House poetry nights in Tonbridge, they are still refurbishing the decaying old, seedy (but lovely) place. By the way I noticed the other day that the pub sign seems to have been removed, so perhaps a name change is in the offing. In the meantime here's a poem called Whatever by the new, and first female, Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, which I thought was particularly lovely despite, or maybe because of, her rather strange sounding voice. The Poetry Archive site allows you to read many poems and, more interestingly in my opinion, allows you to listen to the poets themselves reading their own material. In fact there are even old recordings such as Tennyson reading The Charge of the Light Brigade if you prefer the more traditional stuff....