September
Saturday 18th Sept – 7.30pm
Dave Haslam talking about writing, DJing, life…
In the mid-80s Dave Haslam was running a fanzine, putting on bands at the Boardwalk, and DJing twice a week at the Haçienda. He has since DJ’d worldwide – and written five full-length books, including his memoir ‘Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor’ (acclaimed by BBC 6 Music presenter Gilles Peterson as “the best book of 2018”).
His latest project is ‘Art Decades’; a limited-edition series of small format books about subjects including vinyl collecting, Keith Haring’s New York nightlife, Courtney Love’s life-changing trip to Liverpool in 1982, and Sylvia Plath alone in Paris in 1956. The new book in the series is ‘All You Need is Dynamite: Acid, the Angry Brigade, and the End of the Sixties’; published on August 26th 2021.
Expect entertainment and enlightenment. And a book signing session at the end!
Tickets are £4 and include free refreshments – sign up below!
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Catherine Rayner
Pooja Puri
Dara McAnulty
October
Saturday 30th Oct – 2pm
Join nature writer and conservationist Laurence Rose and poet Steve Ely for a unique combined event looking at how direct observations of nature find their way onto the page whether as prose or poetry. The event will be a mixture of talk, readings and Q&A.
Laurence Rose is a leading wildlife conservationist and author who has worked in more than twenty countries to save species from extinction and defend the most important places for wildlife. After more than three decades in mainstream conservation he is using his writing to challenge government, society and the conservation sector itself to adopt a more radical, urgent approach. His books The Long Spring (published in 2018), Framing Nature – conservation and culture (October 2020) and Leopard Moon Rising – distant views of India, (June 2021) all explore the relationship between people and the rest of nature through a cultural lens.
Steve Ely has published several collections of poetry, including Oswald’s Book of Hours, Englaland, Incendium Amoris and Zi-Zi Taah Taah Taah: The Song of the Willow Tit. His books have won or been nominated for several literary prizes, including the Forward Prize for best first collection, the Ted Hughes Award and the Northern Writers Award for poetry. His most recent books of poems are Lectio Violant and The European Eel, both published in the summer of 2021. Steve Ely is senior lecturer in creative writing at the University of Huddersfield, where he is Director of the Ted Hughes Network. His monograph, Ted Hughes’s South Yorkshire: Made in Mexborough, is a biographical work that explores Hughes’s Yorkshire formation.
Tickets are free from here:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/field-notes-observations-of-nature-tickets-170522276720
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Emily Gravett
Amy Wilson
Nick Sharratt
November
Saturday 13th Nov – 2pm
Comedian Robin Ince quickly abandoned science at school, bored by a fog of dull lessons and intimidated by the barrage of equations. But, twenty years later, he fell in love and he now presents one of the world’s most popular science podcasts. Every year he meets hundreds of the world’s greatest thinkers.
In this erudite and witty book, Robin reveals why scientific wonder isn’t just for the professionals. Filled with interviews featuring astronauts, comedians, teachers, quantum physicists, neuroscientists and more – as well as charting Robin’s own journey with science – The Importance of Being Interested explores why many wrongly think of the discipline as distant and difficult. From the glorious appeal of the stars above to why scientific curiosity can encourage much needed intellectual humility, this optimistic and profound book will leave you filled with a thirst for intellectual adventure.
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Saturday 20th Nov – 2pm
Set on the outskirts of Bradford over the course of a single day, Killing The Horses follows Ryan and Liam, teenagers skiving off school in the woods at the edge of the city. But the woods hold secrets. Dark secrets. And the landscape aches with the violence of all that has been done there.
There is blood on the ground and a sickness in the earth. As the memory of what has happened there climbs back out of the hillside, the boys learn that they are too entangled in the savagery of the land around them to be able to separate themselves from it.
Killing The Horses is rooted in the landscape and dialect of West Yorkshire and fuses realism with the mythical. It brings the macabre and darkly-religious world of the American Southern Gothic to the north of England. The short story version of Killing The Horses was longlisted in the 2018 Manchester Fiction Prize run by Carol-Ann Duffy. His other writing credits include fiction publication in the Fortnightly Review, winning a Dorothy Rosenberg Prize for ‘young poets of unusual promise’ from the University of Berkeley, and the Grist first-place prize for poetry describing place, from the University of Huddersfield. He has performed at numerous literary festivals around Yorkshire including the Ted Hughes Festival, the York Takeover Festival, the Leeds Lit Festival and the Bradford Literature Festival. John is also a teacher of A Level English Literature and Language.
John will read extracts from his book and talk about his writing and join Louise and James for a Q&A. Including free refreshments.
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John Patrick Green
Steve Camden
Cat Weldon
And more to be confirmed!