Mumbai's edition of 'Distant Voices' will unfold on the first floor of Prithvi House, Prithvi Theatre, Juhu. The PEN All-India Centre will present the evening as a PEN@Prithvi Special, a bonus attraction to the regular monthly session at this very venue. The seven poets who will read their poetry, beginning at ten minutes to ten, Indian Standard Time (4.20 GMT) are Arjun Bali, Sampurna Chattarji, Mustansir Dalvi, Rohinton Daruwala, Ranjit Hoskote, Malavika Sangghvi and Arundhathi Subramaniam. http://indiapen.wordpress.com/ http://www.prithvitheatre.org/home.php.

Distant Voices, StAnza's first virtual poetry festival, is a free event which on Saturday 14th November will be linking up poets and poetry from 12 cities and towns across the world, from Mumbai to Sacramento, and streaming them live into The Byre Theatre, St Andrews, StAnza's usual hub venue, and also via webcasts worldwide, so bringing the festival onto your computer screen, wherever you are. Full details with the running order are now available online at http://stanzapoetry.org/virtual-festival.php, where you will also find the webcast. (Webcast "stage" only available during event.)