Somewhere near Liverpool Street Station this evening there will be Trainspotters, as Greg Freeman reads from his well-received collection of that name as part of More Poetry, Ken Champion’s long-running poetry night.

Brian Patten describes Greg’s work as “snapshots of gone and going worlds” of Greg’s poems Poems about Beeching and Betjeman. Via the rails and canals of the 1970s, Greg’s poems transport us to characters that can't shake off the past, and are as much about filial love as they are about wistful memories.

Trainspotters with More Poetry is at The Coffee Shop, 13 Leyden Street, London E1 7LE