BUDDING poets will have the chance to present their work to a poetry friendly audience on tomorrow.

An open mic sessions is being held at the Ice Factory in Teignmouth’s Somerset Place by Teignmouth Poetry Society at 7.30pm, on a first come first served basis.

And on Thursday, May 19, there will be an evening devoted to Louis MacNeice at the Oystercatcher Cafe, Northumberland Place, from 7.30pm..

A spokesman for the society said his basic biography read like an archetypal perception of the ‘typical’ male 20th century poet.

‘Every element is there: a parent’s early death, detachment from siblings, religious conflict, wives and lovers who came and left, Transatlantic forays, foreign sojourns, critical acclaim and deeply-felt failure, booze and more booze, and a relatively early demis.

‘But his writing made him an influential and central figure on the British literary scene for 30 years, despite not quite reaching the stratospheric heights of some of his close friends.’