Mike Parker's diary: talks, events, TV and radio

Mike Parker is out promoting All the Wide Border this spring and summer. Click on the links in bold below for details.

COMING EVENTS

MAY

Weds 3 May Waterstones Aberystwyth

Thurs 4 May Waterstones Hereford

Fri 5 May Ledbury Books and Maps, Herefordshire

Sat 6 May 6pm: Map Corner, live broadcast and available thereafter as a podcast

Fri 12 May Carto Cymru symposium, National Library, Aberystwyth

Weds 17 May Rossiters Books, Monmouth

Fri 19 May Swansea University Cultural Institute at the Tabernacle in Mumbles

Tues 23 May Wrexham:

4.30pm Wrexham Library, a Waterstones event

7.30 pm Saith Seren, Chester Street

Weds 24 May Burway Books, Church Stretton, Shropshire

Fri 26 May Waterstones Abergavenny

JUNE

Thurs 1 June Hay-on-Wye:

4pm informal reading and Q&A at North Books, Castle Street

5.30pm reading and signing at Farmers Welsh Lavender shop, by the clock tower

Thursday 8 June, Storyville Books, Pontypridd (with Leanne Wood)

Sat 10 June morning: Montgomery Literary Festival

Sun 18 June Lowdham Book Festival at Southwell, Nottinghamshire (with Stuart Maconie and Jon Gower)

Thursday 22 June Penarth Festival, Vale of Glamorgan

Tues 27 June Castle Books ‘secret garden’, Ludlow, Shropshire

Thursday 29 June Aberration, Bank Vault bar, Aberystwyth

Friday 30 June Chepstow Library, Monmouthshire (with Jon Gower)

JULY

Sat 1 July Caerleon Literature Festival, Monmouthshire (with Jon Gower)

Fri 7 July Oriel Davies, Newtown

Sun 9 July The Good Life Summer Camp, Hawarden estate, Flintshire

SEPTEMBER

Sat 16 Aardvark Books, Brampton Bryan, Herefordshire: a full day of poets, writers and artists riffing off All the Wide Border and its themes.