We Are The Lancashire Poetry Relay Team! Entertainment! Performances! Poems
A continuous stream of Poetry and Music to delight and entertain
We're Just Getting Started!
Check out where we are performing this year!
There are lots of opportunities to see The Lancashire Poetry Relay Team perform across Lancashire. Just click on "Where You Can See Us" at the top of the page to make sure you don't miss out!
STOP PRESS!!! We are performing at the #EDFRINGE Review in Preston on the 12th June - eek!!
Fresh from pulling in the crowds at the World Unicycle Tug of War Championships, the Lancashire Poetry Relay Team (LPRT) have put together a delicious assortment of rhythms and rhymes for your entertainment.
Our latest show includes some new musical pieces as well as spoken word to add to the variety of our performance.
To book our show for your event, community group, care home, library, theatre, fundraiser etc please contact:
Chris Husband - The Brierfield Bard
He is a former professional wrestler, MasterChef finalist and pathological liar.
Featured on BBC Radio Manchester, Chris has a great face for Radio and a voice like a foghorn.
Author of 2 poetry collections and 2 children's picture books, Chris is a 61-year-old foodaholic! He has a new collection of poems available to buy on Kindle or Hardback from 8th December - check out the details on his "More About Chris" page
https://www.facebook.com/chris.husband1
Instagram and Threads - @goosechris
Eloise Ellvie Wood - The Magical Thinker
Ellvie is a self-confessed daydreamer, a child in an adult body.
Writer, singer, dancer, avid reader, history freak and general pain in the backside.
Ellvie is a crazy characterful lady with a passion for history and a wit as sharp as a knife. She will effortlessly have you laughing in the aisles with her keen intellect and poetic performance.
Her poems, laced with humour, will often tell a story, or give you a new take on an old familiar story, with a super sharp observation of life.
Susan Osborne - The Lancashire Lass
Sue writes witty verse in ‘Lanky Twang’ and fancies herself a Chorley version of Pam Ayres with hints of Victoria Wood, Peter Kaye and ‘Peggy’ from ‘Hi-de-Hi’ (as played by Sue Pollard) thrown in!
Available for sessions of poetry and chat …as long as there’s an audience!
Susan is author of three poetry collections with cartoon illustrations by Sarah Bailey Cartoons.
Sid Calderbank - Dialect Raconteur
Sid has been collecting and researching the songs, stories and poems of old Lancashire for over 40 years, and performing them at folk, arts and literary festivals anywhere from Aberdeen to Dartmoor!
Over the years he has become active in every dialect society in the County and is currently Chairman of The Lancashire Society and President of the Lancashire Authors’ Association.
Since 2008 he has appeared on BBC TV and radio, Flog It! Countryfile, Michael Portillo’s Railway Journeys, Radio 4’s Tongue and the Talk” and more….
Irene Preston - The Education Queen
As an ex-member of a poetry performing quartet, Irene is no stranger to the stage. Her poetry and prose has been a source of delight to members of the Clayton Green Library Writers Group. rene was a late starter in life, finally graduating from university just in time to retire! She mis-spent most of her time there by performing with a poetry quartet, trying to support the Harris Museum and persuading people to taste-test Fairtrade chocolate. Although deeply enamoured of language, literature and history – maybe she should have paid more attention during lectures? Her attempts to share her knowledge with you should be taken with a very large pinch of salt.
Contact Us
Better yet, see us in person!
We will be playing at various events throughout Lancashire, but we could be performing at YOUR venue. Just drop us a line at chris@lancashirepoetryrelayteam.com
