Acclaimed poet and Radio 4 regular John Osborne heads to rural pubs in Dorset this summer to perform his new poetry collection about supermarkets and the people who use them.

‘A Supermarket Love Story’ tours to Dorset through Artsreach, as part of The Inn Crowd. This national project supports some of the UK’s top performing poets to craft new shows especially for rural pubs, with the aim of helping landlords attract new customers, widen the experience for regulars, and help reinforce the pub as a central, vibrant part of community life.

John Osborne is a Radio 4 regular and creator of the cult show, John Peel's Shed. Through his latest collection of poems, ‘A Supermarket Love Story’, love will bloom, lives will continue as they always have, and you'll meet two paramedics by the crisps. As staff untuck their shirts and sit on kick stools stacking shelves, we join them all for a storytelling feast and find that every aisle really does tell a different story.

Weaving words to create wonderful worlds out of the most ordinary of situations, join John in two Dorset pubs this summer for a night of poignant, enchanting and heart-warming poetic tales.

John will perform at The Gaggle of Geese in Buckland Newton on Sunday, June 12 at 6.30pm; call 01300 345249 to book tickets.

He then performs at The Royal Oak in Drimpton on Sunday, August 7; call 01308 867617.