National Poetry Day Thursday October 5th 2006
Library Services across North West England are joining the worldwide Book Crossing phenomenon and at the same time encouraging people who may have never picked up a poetry book before, to read and enjoy something new.
On National Poetry Day, library staff will be leaving specially purchased poetry collections by poets from the North West region, in public places such as health centres, leisure centres, pubs and cafes, hairdressers’ salons- wherever they think someone will have time and curiosity enough, to pick up a book and read a poem or two. Finders of books can read and keep them, or pass them on, after registering their “find