A poet and published songwriter who started his career in Croxley Green will speak to Watford wordsmiths about his career.

Literature group Watford Writers will welcome Paul Eccentric to a meeting where he will also perform his poetry and read extracts from his books.

Mr Eccentric is best known as one half of the comedic beat poetry duo The Antipoet.

He has played at hundreds of festivals including Glastonbury, The Edinburgh Fringe, Bestival and others.

After over 35 years of writing and performing, he has published his third volume of his Steampunk series The Periwinkle Perspective, titled The Story Untold.

The event will take place at The Quakers Meeting House, Church Road on Monday (August 1) at 7.30pm.

Entrance costs £5 and will include refreshments. To find out more, visit: watfordwriters.org.uk

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