IRISH poet Matthew Sweeney will be reading his work at the Nuffield Theatre, Southampton on Thursday at 8pm.

Sweeney, described by one national newspaper as "one of our finest poets of the unconscious", has published ten volumes of poems, the best of which were recently brought together in Selected Poems.

He has also written children's fiction and edited three anthologies. Tickets: £6. Box office: 023 8067 1771.