I was honoured to be asked to perform some stargazing poetry live in Dumfries to celebrate Yuri’s Night for the 56th anniversay of his historic spaceflight. It was my job to place everyone in the universe before our main speaker, an inspiring chap called Hayden Goodfellow, took us on an epic journey into our space-travelling future.

The evening was organised by The Dumfries Astronomical Society and I can’t thank Mark Toner (and Russell Jones) enough for bringing me in.

You can listen to my performance below, with kind help from my son.

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