Scarred for Life: Dave
Lawrence and Steve Brotherstone - Live
York
St John University
Creative
Centre
7:30-10:30pm,
21st May 2022, £12.
The York Centre for Writing at York St John
University is pleased to be hosting Dave Lawrence and Steve
Brotherstone, authors of the acclaimed ‘Scarred for Life’ books at
York St John University Creative Centre at 7:30pm on 21st May 2022.
 
Did you spend your childhood being traumatised by
Worzel Gummidge, Hartley Hare, Children of the Stones and the
Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water? Were you terrified of the Usborne
Book of Ghosts in your school library, given nightmares by Horror
Top Trumps and Game of Jaws, and then handed a Dalek’s Death Ray
lolly to calm you down?
The children who grew up in the 1970s and 1980s were
placed in the unenviable position of being scared by virtually
everything. In this show, Liverpool writers Stephen Brotherstone
and Dave Lawrence – the men behind the superb Scarred For Life
books – will be giving a hilarious talk about the TV, films, music,
comics, board games, books, adverts and crisps (no, really) that
blighted all of our childhoods. All accompanied by a slide show of
some of their most potent childhood fears! There'll be explicit talk
about the giant spiders from Doctor Who, discussion of the
bloodthirsty ending to Blake's 7, a rummage through the gruesome
Public Information Films that haunted all our nightmares... and
even a Top 10 Chart Countdown of the best British hit singles to be
inspired by the prospect of impending nuclear armageddon.
And, afterwards, there'll be a Q&A and
discussion – so feel free to chip in with your own memories of
retro childhood trauma! Tickets available from here.
Horrifying Children:
Hauntology and the Legacy of Children’s Fictions
The Scarred for Life performance follows a free one
day conference, including keynote speakers, a screening and
readings of original creative work from Reaper Press. Information
and tickets available from here.
York Centre for Writing:
Caleb
Klaces & Phoebe Power
York St
John University
Creative
Centre Recital Room
6-7pm, 2nd
June 2022, Free.
Caleb Klaces’s highly anticipated second collection
has been described as an ingenious set of ‘explorations of
subjectivity, language, reality and the mind’ (Poetry Review), and
was one of the The White Review’s 2021 Books of the Year.
Award-winning poet Phoebe Power has been described as ‘an utterly
contemporary voice’ (Bidisha). Book of Days, her second full-length
work from Carcanet Press, is a long poem in response to the Camino
de Santiago pilgrimage. Readings and Q+A from the poets will be
followed by refreshments.
Phoebe Power is the author of Shrines of Upper Austria
(Carcanet, 2018), which received the Forward Prize for Best First
Collection. She is currently lecturing in Creative Writing at York
St John.
Caleb Klaces’ most recent books are the poetry collection Away
From Me and Fatherhood, a novel, both published by Prototype. He is
a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at York St John.
Phoebe Power image credit: Adrian Pope
Tickets for this event can be found here.
In collaboration with York St John University and the York Centre
for Writing.
Launch and Reading:
Naomi
Booth’s Animals at Night
York St
John University
Creative
Centre Recital Room
6-8pm,
16th June 2022, Free.
A woman feeding a baby late at night listens to the animal sounds
in the city around her. A grieving widow encounters an injured
jellyfish on a deserted beach. A young woman can’t shake the image
of a dying hare she finds at the side of the road. A dairy farmer
hears her herd bellow with fear at night.
Animals at Night is Naomi Booth’s first collection
of short stories. Collected here are stories that illuminate the
strange nocturnal meetings between humans and other animals. Join
us for a reading and Q&A to celebrate the publication of these
stories, and new editions of Naomi’s novels, Sealed and Exit
Management. Naomi will be in conversation with poet and fiction
writer, Professor Abi Curtis.
Suitable for ages 18+
Naomi Booth is a fiction writer and academic, and is
particularly interested in eco-fictions, writing and the body, and
northern writing. She is the author of The Lost Art of Sinking,
Sealed and Exit Management—which was named a Guardian Best Fiction
Book of 2020. She is the recipient of a Saboteur Award for Best
Novella and her short fiction has been longlisted for the Sunday Times
EFG Short Story Award and the Galley Beggars Short Story Prize. She
was recently commissioned to retell the northern folktale of the
boggart for Audible Original/Virago anthology Hag. Her academic
work has focussed on the literary history of swooning, and her
monograph Swoon: A Poetics of Passing Out was recently published by
Manchester University Press. Naomi grew up in West Yorkshire and
now lives in York. She is an Associate Professor at Durham
University and was previously Subject Director for Creative Writing
at York St John University.
Tickets for this event can be found here.
In collaboration with York St John University and the York Centre
for Writing.
Homer to Hip Hop
The
Crescent Community Venue
7.30-11pm,
19th June 2022, £10.
Say Owt and York Literature Festival are joining
together to present a performance lecture from author and poet,
Pete Bearder. As we enter the post-COVID comeback, meet the
artistic revivals that have remade the world from the bottom up.
Find out why wordsmiths have always been vilified, feared and
revered, from the ballad singers and Beat poets, to the icons of
dub, punk and hip hop. The spoken word has always been the most
immediate tool of cultural revival. This show brings a proud
history to life, and asks what we can do with it next. Former
National Poetry Slam Champion, Pete “the Temp” Bearder, brings to
life the poetic movements that have shaped history. Pete is an
award-winning spoken word poet, author and comic. His work has been
featured on BBC Radio 4, The World Service, and Newsnight. This
show follows the release of his ground-breaking new book Stage
Invasion: Poetry & the Spoken Word Renaissance.
Tickets available from here.
Please keep an eye on our website and
Twitter account for more information on upcoming events. We hope
you will join us!
|
-1.png?width=1120&upscale=true&name=new%20opening%20hours%20(7)-1.png)
.jpg)
.jpg)
.jpg)
No comments:
Post a Comment