On National Poetry Day we're pleased to host acclaimed poets Katherine Towers and John Challis to read from their new Forward Prize longlisted collections.

Katharine Towers and John Challis read from their acclaimed new collections, The Worrying Rose (Picador) and The Green Parcel (Bloodaxe).

Poetry Pharmacy’s launch of Alexandra Corrin-Tachibana’s Skinship (Salt Publications) and Mary Mulholland’s The Dodo Stories (Nine Arches).

Mary and Alex will discuss and read from their newest collections, reflecting on themes of cultural inheritance, identity, home and motherhood.

Join us with award-winning poet Carole Bromley for a ghoulish reading from her new book,Ghosts and Ginnels. Explore through words the hidden passages, ancient alleyways and atmospheric corners of York that inspired her new book. She will be joined with poetry readings from Word Up's wonderful Nicky Kippax and Charlotte Oliver.

As darkness falls over York, the Poetry Pharmacy is travelling from Coney Street and setting up a suitably spectral dispensary at Ghosts After Dark.

Find us among the ghosts in York Museum Gardens, with Poetry Pills, Poisons, books and remedies for troubled souls, dark nights and other mysterious ailments.