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WHAT’S GOING ON?

I can’t promise these next 10 dates for your diary will give you the answer to that question, but hey sometimes it’s simply best not to know.

I remember my first experience of literature readings sitting somewhere at the back of the audience so I could make a quick exit if required. But most of these writers held me. I was transfixed by the way words were welding together so seamlessly. Some like every day speech, making me wish I’d written that, but some poems like spider’s threads weaving round the room and attaching themselves to me. I took these home and it made me want to try harder.

So, swerving east from rich industrial shadows, this year we have writers from Brazil, USA, Finland and the UK. I still sit towards the back at readings I attend but I’m in no fear of leaving these 10 days of events early, and I hope to see some of you sitting there wishing you’d written what you’re hearing.

So I ask the question again “What’s going on?” Well… in the distance I can hear the Humber Mouth, clearing its throat and if you care to turn these pages... it will tell you what’s going on.

Shane Rhodes

HM3. FRIDAY 7TH - SUNDAY 9TH NOVEMBER 2014.

10.00am - 4.00pm The Pier, Nelson St, Hull HU1 1XE THE DYLAN THOMAS SHED. FREE 2014 marks the centenary of esteemed Welsh poet The original shed sits above the Boathouse in the Dylan Thomas’s birth. scenic seaside town of Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, where Thomas lived with his wife Caitlin, and where A replica of his iconic writing shed in Laugharne is he penned some of his most famous works including coming to Hull for three days as part of the Dylan Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night and his play Thomas 100 celebrations. for voices Under Milk Wood.

The shed - complete with curled pictures on the Visitors to the shed will be encouraged to make up a walls, boiled sweets on the desk and the poet’s new word which will be published in a Dictionary of jacket still hanging on the back of his chair - will be Dylan, in honour of his love of words. situated at The Pier, Nelson Steet .

HM4. FRIDAY 7TH NOVEMBER 2014.

7.30pm The 1 Gallery 2 Humber Quays, Wellington Street Hull HU1 2BN AMANDA COE. FREE Amanda Coe is an acclaimed screenwriter and author who in 2013 won a BAFTA for the BBC Four adaptation of John Braine’s Room at the Top, starring Maxine Peake. Her other credits include Shameless, Margot and As If. Her first novel, What They Do in the Dark, was published by Virago in 2011.

Amanda Coe will read from her new book Getting Colder. A savagely funny and perceptive novel about a washed-up writer and the havoc he has wrought, comparable in its piercing wit to the Melrose novels by Edward St Aubyn. The book has themes of family, love and how sometimes the harder you look, the less you find. Amanda will also speak about her other writing and TV credits. This is a great opportunity to become acquainted with an ecclectic writer working in varied media.

HM5. SATURDAY 8TH NOVEMBER 2014.

Sigurður Pálsson 2.30pm James Reckitt Reading Room Central Library, Albion Street, Hull HU1 3TF SIGURÐUR PÁLSSON & KATARIINA VUORINEN. FREE

Sigurður Pálsson: The Icelandic poet, novelist, playwright and translator Sigurður Pálsson has worked as a professor and cinema producer. His poetry has been translated into ten languages. He is also the author of three acclaimed novels and a book of memoirs.

Pálsson received the Icelandic Literature Award in 2007 and was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1990 by the French Government.

Katariina Vuorinen: Born in Janakkala in the Häme region in Southern Finland, Katariina Vuorinen studied literature in Tampere University. A familiar performer at literary events in Finland and abroad and a teacher of creative writing, she has been the president of the Middle Finland Writer’s Union since 2008 and has worked to bring the Writer’s House in Jyväskylä to the international networks of literary centres.

Katariina Vuorinen

HM6. SATURDAY 8TH NOVEMBER 2014.

7.30pm Kardomah94 94 Alfred Gelder Street, Hull HU1 2AN LIZ KERSHAW. £8 / £5 Tickets: www.humbermouth.co.uk Booking Office: 01482 300 300

Liz Kershaw’s love of music has taken her from Rochdale to Radio 1 and beyond. After being plucked from a job at BT in the Eighties, she teamed up with Bruno Brookes on the nation’s favourite breakfast show.

Liz has startled Tom Jones on the Radio 1 Roadshow, been left red-faced by George Michael and the Bee Gees, rescued by The Clash’s Mick Jones and seen the sights with Robert Plant.

Through crises over competitions to sex scandals, campaigning to save Radio 6 Music and fighting the case for women on BBC Radio, Liz has always tried to make her voice heard on both sides of the microphone.

Now, in The Bird And The Beeb, her honest, warm and entertaining autobiography, she lifts the lid on her life at the BBC and the real stories behind the headlines.

(& in conversation with Dave Windass)

HM7. SUNDAY 9TH NOVEMBER 2014.

1.30pm Artlink 87 Princes Avenue, Hull HU5 3QP KATHARINE GRANT. £4 / £3 Tickets: www.humbermouth.co.uk Booking Office: 01482 300 300 Katharine Grant reads from Sedition her debut novel for adults. Born into a family described by Lord Burley, Treasurer to Elizabeth I, as of “more that usual preversity” and with an ancestor who was the last person in the UK to be hung drawn and quartered for sedition, Katherine is more than qualified to spin a tale of social and political intrigue.

Set in London 1794 the ferment of Revolution from across the Channel seeps into City coffee houses and Gentlemen’s Clubs. In the shadow of Tyburn gibbet, a dusty pianoforte workshop receives a visitor. A man, representing an unscrupulous band of City speculators, require a pianoforte and a charming teacher to help find titled husbands for all their daughters. It seems an innocent enough plan but these are subversive times and even a piano lesson isn’t exactly what it seems.

Fathers and daughters; mothers and daughters; husbands and wives; the pursued and the pursuing. Whether in gilded drawing room or dusty workshops, when a city is infected with sedition, everything is reflected through a distorting prism of jealousy, revenge and sexual devilry.

HM8. SUNDAY 9TH NOVEMBER 2014.

7.30pm James Reckitt Reading Room Central Library, Albion Street, Hull HU1 3TF JAMES KELMAN. £5 / £4 Tickets: www.humbermouth.co.uk Booking Office: 01482 300 300 James Kelman is an influential writer of novels, short stories, plays, and political essays. His novel A Disaffection was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 1989. Kelman won the 1994 Booker Prize with How Late It Was, How Late. In 1998 Kelman was awarded the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Award. His 2008 novel Kieron Smith, Boy won both of Scotland’s principal literary awards: the Saltire Society’s Book of the Year and the Scottish Arts Council Book of the Year.

James Kelman is the author of short stories, long stories, plays and essays. His first collection of stories was published in Maine USA 1973, and his latest in London England 2014.

HM9. MONDAY 10TH NOVEMBER 2014.

7.30pm James Reckitt Reading Room Central Library, Albion Street, Hull HU1 3TF JEN CAMPBELL. £4 / £3 Tickets: www.humbermouth.co.uk Booking Office: 01482 300 300 Jen Campbell is a published poet and short story writer and is the author of Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops which was a Sunday Times bestseller. She lives in North London where she works at Ripping Yarns bookshop

Every bookshop has a story.

The Bookshop Book explores bookshops in barns, disused factories, converted churches and underground car parks. Bookshops on boats, on buses, and in old run-down train stations. Fold- out bookshops, undercover bookshops, this-is- the-best-place-I’ve-ever-been-to-bookshops. The Bookshop Book is a love letter to bookshops all around the world.

Meet Sarah and her Book Barge sailing across the sea to France; meet Sebastien, in Mongolia, who sells books to herders of the Altai mountains; meet the bookshop in Canada that’s invented the world’s first antiquarian book vending machine.

And that’s just the beginning.

HM10. TUESDAY 11TH NOVEMBER 2014.

7.30pm The Space Central Library, Albion Street, Hull HU1 3TF SIMON ARMITAGE. £10 / £8 Tickets: www.humbermouth.co.uk Booking Office: 01482 300 300

This Armistice Day, The Humber Mouth marks the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War by welcoming Simon Armitage to talk about the poets of the Great War. Simon will speak about the work of the War Poets and discuss how they changed the course of poetry in the 20th century. He will also talk about the challenges of writing poetry for his new BBC commisssion The Great War: An Elegy.

In conversation with Steve Dearden, Simon will read from the film’s poems and show extracts.

Simon Armitage is an award-winning poet, novelist and playwright. He has published over a dozen collections of poetry including Seeing Stars (2010) and more recently Paper Aeroplane - Selected Poems 1998-2014. In 2007 he published a critically acclaimed translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Simon was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2004 and was awarded the CBE for services to poetry. He is Professor of Poetry at the University of Sheffield.

HM11. WEDNESDAY 12TH NOVEMBER 2014.

Adélia Prado Thomas Lux Ellen Doré Watson

7.30pm only very occasionally travelling to Rio or São Paulo to participate in literary events. And despite this James Reckitt Reading Room relative “outsider” status, she is recognised as one of Central Library, Albion Street, Hull HU1 3TF the most important poets in Brazil. Hull is privileged to welcome her. ADÉLIA PRADO, U.S. poet Thomas Lux has published twelve THOMAS LUX & collections of poetry. His “switchover” collection was ELLEN DORÉ Half Promised Land in 1986, which marked a sea WATSON. change in his work. Split Horizon in 1994 won him the Kingsley-Tufts Award, making it possible for him £5 / £4 to devote much more time and energy to his poetry at Tickets: www.humbermouth.co.uk a crucial stage in the evolution of his work. His later Booking Office: 01482 300 300 books include New and Selected Poems 1975-1995, Brazilian Adélia Luzia Prado de Freitas (Adélia published in 1997, which shows the poet before Prado) has gained an international following and and after his “recovery” from Surrealism, and was achieved many accolades for her writing. followed by The Street of Clocks (2001), The Cradle Place (2004), God Particles (2008) and Child Made of A private writer and daydreamer since she was a girl, Sand (2012). He has published two books of poetry in it was not until she was nearly 40 that she began Britain, The Street of Clocks - from Arc in 2001 - and to think she might be writing something worthy of now his Selected Poems (2014) from Bloodaxe. being called “literature”, and sent a small sheaf of work off to poet and critic Affonso Romano de Ellen Doré Watson was hailed by Library Journal Sant’Anna. Sant’Anna, in turn, passed the poems as one of “24 Poets for the 21st Century.” Her along to Brazil’s great modernist, Carlos Drummond collections of poetry include Ladder Music and de Andrade, who pronounced them ‘phenomenal’, We Live in Bodies (Alice James, 2001 and 2002), and hand-delivered them to his editor. Drummond This Sharpening (Tupelo, 2006), and most recently subsequently announced in a newspaper column Dogged Hearts (book and audio book: Tupelo, 2010). that St Francis was dictating verses to a housewife in She has also translated a dozen books, including Minas Gerais, and her literary career was launched. The Alphabet in the Park: Selected Poems of Adélia Bagagem (Baggage), her debut collection, was Prado (Wesleyan University Press, 1990) and works released soon afterwards in 1976, followed by seven by Brazilian poet Ignácio de Loyola Brandão as well subsequent books of poetry, and seven of prose. as contemporary Arabic poetry (co-translated with Despite “overnight” and continuing success, Adélia Saadi Simawe). Prado mainly prefers to remain out of the limelight,

HM12. THURSDAY 13TH NOVEMBER 2014.

Door 7.30pm / Start 8.15pm Pave 16 - 20 Princes Avenue, Hull HU5 3QA BONNIE GREER. £8 / £5 Tickets: www.humbermouth.co.uk Booking Office: 01482 300 300

Bonnie Greer OBE, is an American-British playwright, Studio in New York with Elia Kazan. Bonnie has been novelist and critic. She grew up on the South Side a regular contributor to BBC2’s ‘Newsnight Review’ of Chicago, the eldest of seven children born to and ‘Question Time’. Ben, a Mississippi sharecropper, Chicago factory worker, and D-Day veteran, and Willie Mae, who went From her early years in segregated, racist America to work at fifteen to support her family. Although to her first steps towards British soil, Bonnie’s she began writing plays at the age of nine, Bonnie story is not only compelling and eye-opening, but initially set out on a legal career, the career of choice an exquisite testament to one woman’s strength, for a black girl coming of age in the Civil Rights determination and pride. movement. She decided to return to writing instead Bonnie will be in conversation with Russ Litten and of pursuing the law and went on to study playwriting also reading from her memoir Parallel Life. in Chicago under David Mamet and at the Actors

HM13. FRIDAY 14TH NOVEMBER 2014.

8.00pm Live Arts Space, Ferens Art Gallery Queen Victoria Square, Hull HU1 3RA

ROSIE WILBY ‘… an intelligent, honest and entertaining show that NINETIES WOMAN poses important questions, not just about feminism but also about growing up and finding oneself’ £5 / £4 Remote Goat Tickets: www.humbermouth.co.uk Booking Office: 01482 300 300 ‘an evening of wit, nostalgia and social commentary, brought together in a perfect little package’ **** The Nineties Woman is a new show from award Oxford Times winning comedian Rosie Wilby using live interactive storytelling interspersed with video interviews, music ‘If you were ever an angry student, or if you’ve ever and photo archive to trace a journey through early looked back at your life and thought that used to 90s feminism, refracted through a very personal really mean something to me, this one-woman show lens. Rosie has appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Loose is for you… Witty, empathetically nostalgic, and Ends, Woman’s Hour, Radio 5, BBC World Service, incredibly well narrated’ Planet London LBC and BBC London and at festivals including Glastonbury, Green Man, Larmer Tree, How The ‘I was so engrossed, I forgot they were screening Light Gets In and Latitude. Rosie Wilby arrives in Hull Match of the Day in the bar downstairs’ - a male following sellout shows in Oxford and London and a audience member, Manchester successful run at The Voodoo Rooms in Edinburgh. Time Out Critics’ Choice

HM14. SATURDAY 15TH NOVEMBER 2014.

1.30pm Hull History Centre Worship Street, Hull HU2 8BG JAMES BOOTH. FREE The first major biography of Larkin since Andrew Motion’s A Writer’s Life, in Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love, James Booth uses unseen material to redress the balance between the poet’s work and his personal life.

Philip Larkin was that rare thing among poets: a household name in his own lifetime. Larkin’s reputation as a man, however, has been more controversial.The publication of his Selected Letters in 1992 revealed his compartmentalised personal life and accusations of duplicity, faithlessness, racism and misogyny were levelled against him.

Larkin’s negative public image is rejected by those who shared the poet’s life: the women with whom he was romantically involved, his friends and his university colleagues. It is with their personal testimony that Booth seeks to reinstate Larkin’s reputation.

Meticulously researched, unwaveringly frank and full of fresh material, Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love definitively reinterprets the life and work one of our greatest and best-loved poets.

HM15. SATURDAY 15TH NOVEMBER 2014.

8.00pm Kardomah94 94 Alfred Gelder Street, Hull HU1 2AN HOLLIE McNISH. £8 / £5 Tickets: www.humbermouth.co.uk Booking Office: 01482 300 300 Hollie is a UK poet who straddles the boundaries between the literary, poetic and pop scenes. She was UK Slam poetry champion in 2009 and the first poet ever to record and perform at Abbey Road Studios, London in 2013.

Poet Benjamin Zephaniah stated “I can’t take my ears off her.” Her recent poem “Embarrassed” was enjoyed and tweeted to fans by renowned singer Pink. Her album Versus was released in October 2014.

Hollie has performed in venues as diverse as Glastonbury festival, the Royal Albert Hall, Ronnie Scotts Jazz Bar and had poems appear on Radio 4, XFM, MTV, Channel 4 and BBC 2. She has had poems used in The Economist and Radio 4 Woman’s Hour.

Hollie runs a poetry in education organization Page to Performance. She works with rapper Inja and runs poetry workshops across the UK. Hollie is multi lingual and has worked with schools and youth centres throughout Europe and Australia.

HM16. SUNDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 2014.

1.30pm Artlink 87 Princes Avenue, Hull HU5 3QP DANNY RHODES. £4 / £3 Tickets: www.humbermouth.co.uk Booking Office: 01482 300 300

IN 1989, eighteen-year-old John Finch spends DANNY RHODES His short stories have appeared in his Saturdays following Nottingham Forest up and magazines on both sides of the Atlantic and his debut down the country and the rest of the week trudging novel, Asboville was published in October 2006. Well the streets of his hometown as a postal worker. His received by critics, it was selected as a Waterstone’s blossoming relationship with girlfriend Jen is his only Paperback of the Year and it has been adapted for other respite. In 2004 he is teaching in a southern BBC Films by the dramatist Nick Leather. Rhodes’ secondary school while delaying the inevitable second novel Soldier Boy was published in February onslaught of parenthood. Leading inexorably towards 2009. Fan is Danny’s third novel. Danny Rhodes was the FA Cup semi-final at Hillsborough, and the worst at Hillsborough on 15 April 1989. sporting disaster in British history, this book glides between 1989 and 2004, when the true impact of A percentage of profits from book sales will go to this tragic day becomes evident. Fan is a book about the Anfield Sports & Community Centre (ASCC), on personal and collective tragedy. It’s about behalf and in memory of the Hillsborough 96 growing up and not growing up, about manhood and about what makes a man, and about football’s role in reflecting a society never more than a brick’s throw away from shattering point.

HM17. SUNDAY 16TH NOVEMBER 2014.

7.30pm Kardomah94 94 Alfred Gelder Street, Hull HU1 2AN

ALAN JOHNSON Following the success of his appearance at the 2013 IN CONVERSATION Humber Mouth Festival, Alan Johnson returns to WITH STEVE talk about his sequel to the critically acclaimed This Boy. Please, Mr Postman paints a vivid picture of DEARDEN. 1970s England. Alan recalls working as a postman £5 / £4 to support his growing family, telling stories of the Tickets: www.humbermouth.co.uk characters he encountered along the way. He tells of Booking Office: 01482 300 300 how his career in the Union of Postal Workers took off, interwoven with memoirs of his family life. Alan Johnson is a British Labour Party politician who served as Home Secretary from June 2009-May Moving, hilarious and unforgettable, PLEASE, MISTER 2010. Before that he filled a number of cabinet posts POSTMAN is another astonishing book from the in both the Blair and Brown Governments. He is MP award-winning author of THIS BOY. for West Hull and Hessle.

HM18. MONDAY 17TH NOVEMBER 2014.

Anarchist Rob Russ Litten Jim Higo Wendy Salon

8.00pm Pave 16 - 20 Princes Avenue, Hull HU5 3QA ANARCHIST ROB RUSS LITTEN, JIM HIGO & WENDY SALON. FREE

There’s nothing quite as memorable as an encounter Jim Higo, punk poet, social commentator and with performance poet Anarchist Rob. Loud, general irritant; the original lazy poet! He’s been in-yer-face and magnificently leftfield, Rob leaps out published in several poetry books and performed at audiences and repeatedly pummels them with his all across the North of England. His ambition is to green Hulk fist. Here’s a true frontman who refuses become the Half Man Half Biscuit of the poetry world to bow to conformity. or failing that the Poet Laureate!

Russ Litten was born at the end of the 60’s, grew Wendi Salon is a bus driver from Denver, Colorado. up in the 70’s and left school in the 80’s. He spent Her first collection I Wasn’t Smiling I Was Showing the subsequent decades in a bewildering variety of My Teeth is still due out on Idle Hands Press in the jobs before becoming a freelance writer at the turn Spring. of the century. After writing drama for television, radio and film, his first novel, “Scream if you want Our previous 2 attempts to bring Wendi Salon over to go faster” was published by William Heinemann from Colarado have quite honestly ended in disaster. in 2011. Tindal Street Press published his second Last year she was stopped at customs and was novel, “Swear Down”, in April 2013. He lives with his immediately deported after being strip-searched. We family in Kingston Upon Hull and currently works as a are keeping our fingers crossed this time. Writer In Residence at a local prison.

HM19. HUMBER MOUTH COMMISSIONS 2014.

Tuesday 11th November / 12.30pm Live Arts Space Ferens Art Gallery, Queen Victoria Square, Hull HU1 3RA STREET SHRINES & ZEPPELINS. FREE The opening of the 20th Century were Hull’s Golden years. Many municipal buildings were completed and King George Dock was opened in June 1914. Hull FC won the Challenge Cup that year with a team including world record signing Billy Batten and Jack Harrison who scored a record 52 tries. War was declared; the docks fell silent as the Baltic trade collapsed and trawler fleets were moth balled or sent off as minesweepers as fishing was suspended. With no work, a high proportion of Hull men volunteered for the King’s Shilling. And then, Zeppelins filled the air with menace above the City.

Rob Bell will open with this historical context, read from his collection Sharp Street and add a few more fresh insights from recent work. Friday 7th - Monday 17 November Library opening hours Central Library BUTTERFLIES AND Albion Street, Hull, HU1 3TF BATTLEFIELDS THE ONES THAT THE STORY OF GOT AWAY CONFLICT WITH EXHIBITION. DEMENTIA IN THE HOME. FREE Using empathetic photography and written storytelling Ever wondered what could have been on the Festival technique Butterflies and Battlefields illustrates, brochure? Many images have been rejected over with empathy and honesty, ‘What’s happening?’ as the years and now is the chance to see them. families begin to respond to the conflict of dementia. Photographer Sarah Daniels has been involved with This digital book project is the outcome of challenging the Festival from the start and she has put together experiences shared with families, sufferers and carers a “behind the scenes” look at how the central by collaborators - photographer Jerome Whittingham theme for each Festival has developed and how the and writer Dave Windass. selection process whittles down the images to the one selected for the publication. Find the digital book at www.humbermouth.co.uk

HM20. HUMBER MOUTH COMMISSIONS 2014.

Wednesday 12 November 1.00pm - 4.00pm (Reading & Discussion) Thursday 13 November 1.00pm - 3.00pm Artlink 87 Princes Avenue, Hull HU5 3QP DISGRUNTHULLED. Check the website for further information In an age of text and tweet abbreviations, Artlink will refresh the art of creative letter writing. Many writers, including Philip Larkin, have been great letter writers, using the medium to vent frustration, as with ‘Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells’ writing to newspapers in tones of moral outrage.

Participate in free ‘DisgruntHulled’ workshops with author Daphne Glazer to explore this public or inner conflict with humour and panache, using expressive vocabulary to produce amusing letters of outrage or Friday 7 – Monday 17 November complaint - whilst finding constructive resolutions. Library opening hours

Central Library, Albion Street, Hull, HU1 3TF Friday 14 November / 7.00pm PERSONAL James Reckitt Reading Room ACCOUNTS OF Central Library, Albion Street, Hull HU1 3TF CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS THE HUMBER WRITTEN & PERFORMED WRITERS. THE CONSCIENTIOUS FREE OBJECTOR’S STORY. Writers have always written about war. It is the poet’s FREE obligation, wrote Plato, to bear witness. We are all familiar with the poetry of the First World War. With This work enters the realms of the ‘conscientious the escalation of war and conflict in the world it is objector’ who were often imprisoned and shamed more important than ever to remember, to confront from society with their story remaining hidden. The and to bear witness. aim of this work is to retell these stories in their own words from their letters and military documents. The The Humber Writers, in collaboration with those who act of re-writing out these letters and over layering have experienced and survived war and conflict, text upon text to create a ‘palimpsest’ their memories present an anthology of poems, prose, photos merging their stories fading and becoming difficult to and artwork which responds to these difficult and decipher, highlights the difficulty with the role of the important issues. Copies of the book will be available ‘conscientious objector’. free on the night.

The work can be seen in a bespoke cabinet.

HM21. HUMBER MOUTH COMMISSIONS 2014.

Thursday 13 November / 7.30pm Hull Indoor Sports Centre Harpings Road, National Avenue, Hull, HU5 4JF THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF FOOTBALL WHO IS WINNING Wednesday 12 November / 8.30pm THE WAR? Goodfellowship Inn FREE Cottingham Road, Hull HU5 4AT As Hull City AFC continue their quest to rebrand as Hull Tigers, local writer, Nick Quantrill, is joined by TROMBONE Martin Cloake and Roger Domeneghetti, authors of POETRY AT exciting new books on the politics of football culture HULL JAZZ to explore the question, who is winning the battle for the soul of football, big business and the media £7 or the fans? Is the beautiful game losing touch with Tickets: www.humbermouth.co.uk its roots, or should we accept change as a natural Booking Office: 01482 300 300 consequence of a global product? The evening will Paul Taylor: Trombone include an audience Q&A session and a chance to Accompanied by Peter Elsdon: piano, buy signed copies of the authors’ books. John Marley: double bass, Chris Sykes: drums with special guest Pete Minns: tenor & soprano Participants: saxophones Nick Quantrill is the writer of the Joe Geraghty World music wordplay, free verse fanfares, binge crime novels. In 2011, he became the first person to thinking, bad news blues: Paul Taylor’s globe-trotting hold the role of ‘Writer in Residence’ at Hull Kingston musical journeys are distilled into a trunkful of Rovers, assisting with the club’s literacy programme engaging poetry, bounced along in a solo set of in schools. Nick is a long-term Hull City supporter classic standards, original pieces, and spontaneous and football writer. compositions. He returns to Hull, the city where as Martin Cloake is an award-winning writer and a student he first developed his “jazz chops”, to join editor. He writes on football culture and the business forces with some old friends and jazz contemporaries of football, and contributes a regular column to New to bring the two audiences for jazz and poetry Statesman. He has written 11 books, the latest being together by providing challenging but good humoured ‘Taking Our Ball Back: English Football’s Culture and accessible words and music. Wars’. Martin is an active board member of the “Jazz in Hull: People & Places” a display of Tottenham Hotspur Supporters’ Trust. photographs and memorabilia curated by Dave Ellis Roger Domeneghetti is a freelance writer and the will accompany the performance, and also be shown Morning Star’s North East football correspondent. throughout the Humber Mouth 2014 Festival A journalist for nearly 20 years, he has also lectured period at The Museum of Club Culture, Humber in journalism and the sociology of sport. ‘From the Street, Hull. Back Page to the Front Room: Football’s Journey Paul Taylor will be hosting the lively and popular Through the English Media’ is his first book. Pave Jazz Jam, Princes Avenue, Hull on Tuesday November 11th. 8.30 - 11.00pm. Sitters-In welcome.

HM22. HUMBER MOUTH COMMISSIONS 2014.

NEW GENERATION – CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S FESTIVAL

SPIN OFF PRODUCTIONS THE DECADE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD. With the use of forum theatre, Spin Off Productions will highlight how the sixties has influenced the way we live today. They aim to use two short plays to explore the decade. The first play looks at the key issues in the USA, the space race, racial integration and JFK and his assignation. The second play highlights the meaning of freedom, origins of the peace movement and the music that influenced the era and how that decade influenced the way that we KERRY DREWERY look at the world today. This play will be performed CREATING to schools. CHARACTERS Tuesday 11 November, Western Library with IN CONFLICT Boulevard Academy and Greenwood Avenue Library WORKSHOP with Thomas Ferens Academy Wednesday 12 November, Ings Library with Malet Literature is a great way of exploring world issues Lambert School and Andrew Marvell Business and and understanding what motivates people while Enterprise College being entertained within the thrill and enjoyment of a good story.

Using pictures from newspapers and magazines as inspiration, Kerry Drewery will run a workshop with Kingswood Academy during the festival leading students in creating characters in conflict areas, "Why not achieve an Arts Award by being part whether that be soldier, civilian, aid-worker, terrorist, of this festival! You can use the experience politician or hostage taker. It looks at the key to count towards achieving Parts of an Arts elements to make a believable character such as Award, such as: taking part in workshops, motivation and beliefs, and builds a plan as to what performing or writing a review of the exhibition their story would be. or performances. Visit www.artsaward.org.uk for more information about Arts Award” The work will be exhibited on the Festival website.

HM23. HUMBER MOUTH COMMISSIONS 2014.

NEW GENERATION – CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE’S FESTIVAL

Monday 17 November 4-5.30pm for 10-13 years 6.30-8pm for 13-19 years

Astra Youth Centre 100 Barnstaple Road, Bransholme, Hull HU7 4HQ

FREE COMIC BOOK WORKSHOP AND THE LAUNCH OF THE POETRY INSPIRED WALL! Young people have been working with artists Louise Fazackerley and Sarah Daniels to create a poem and wall design about their youth centre which will Saturday 15 November be launched tonight. We will also see the start of Three shows 11.30am, 1.00pm & 2.30pm some comic book workshops where you can learn Plus make troll crafts between the shows, how to draw characters and use them to create story from 10.30am lines. This, alongside future song writing workshops will developed further as a build up to the Festival Main Square, Northpoint Shopping Centre in 2015. 5 Goodhart Road Hull HU7 4EE “bad boys and beautiful angels, put yesterdays BIRDHOUSE away, we are the future and we change today” PRESENTS: An extract from Greenhouse by young people from BILLY GOATS Astra Youth Centre. GRUFF BY GARLIC THEATRE. Get Involved with FREE / Suitable for ages 3 – 8 Garlic Theatre creates a magical world that will delight and engage young audiences.

Come along and enjoy this brilliantly told, simple story of the three hungry goats and a grumpy old troll - with a gently ecological message.

Watch out for the dance of the goats, the flying troll Email creativevoice@hullcc. and load and loads of rubbish. gov.uk if you have ideas for future festivals and/or are With puppets, live music, storytelling, singing…and interested in helping out. Garlic Theatre’s unique brand of humour! Also find us on facebook. Running time 35 minutes

HM24. THE WRITING SQUAD 2014.

THE WRITING SQUAD PROJECT H. Are you a writer aged between 16 and 20. Do you want to work with professionals to become an even better writer? Are you interested in working with other writers to create a project for next year’s Humber Mouth?

The Writing Squad is looking for 10 writers to join a monthly workshop. Writers who love writing, enjoy reading and are interested in writing in all its forms and outlets. Writers who can write about the place where they live. You’ll work together and with professional tutors to create new work to be shared in interesting ways at Humber Mouth 2015.

If you are interested in joining visit www.writingsquad.com/h where you will find details of how to join.

The Writing Squad is the development programme for young writers in the north of England. We have worked with over a hundred writers since 2001, some of whom have gone on to have poetry and prose published, plays on stages and scripts produced for radio and TV.

Our first workshop in Hull will be in early December 2014. We are looking forward to working with you.

Go to writing squad dot com slash h

HM25. HEAD IN A BOOK 2014.

Head In A Book is a cycle of literature events in Hull scheduled throughout the year to maintain the momentum of the annual Humber Mouth Literature Festival. It presents readings and interviews with writers of international renown. The events are located in libraries around Hull with the intention of bringing literature into local communities, increasing the use of local libraries and encouraging more people to get their Head in a Book.

In 2013/14 we have have enjoyed writers from Serbia, Armenia, and Iran as well as from the British Isles.

Head In a Book is a partnership between Wrecking Ball Press, Hull City Council’s Arts Unit, Hull’s Library Service and The James Reckitt Library Trust, which presents a diverse programme of writers in conversation or reading from their works and speaking about what inspires them.

After the Humber Mouth Festival on Thursday December 11th Scottish Poet and ex-roofer William Letford will be apearing at the James Reckitt Reading Room in the Central Library as part of our ongoing reading series.

Keep checking the website www.headinabook.co.uk for regular updates

HM26. HUMBER MOUTH PLANNER 2014.

Date Event Venue Time Details Page

Fri 7th - Dylan Thomas Shed The Pier 10.00am - Installation 4 Sun 9th Nov 4.00pm

Fri 7th Nov Amanda Coe The 1 Gallery 7.30pm Reading 5

Fri 7 - The Ones That Got Away Central Library Exhibition 20 Mon 17 Nov Exhibition

Fri 7 - The Conscientious Central LIbrary Exhibition 21 Mon 17 Nov Objector’s Story

Sat 8th Nov Sigurður Pálsson & James Reckitt 2.30pm Poetry Reading 6 Katariina Vuorinen Reading Room Central LIbrary

Sat 8th Nov Liz Kershaw Kardomah94 7.30pm Talk & Reading 7

Sun 9 Nov Katharine Grant Artlink 1.30pm Reading 8

Sun 9 Nov James Kelman James Reckitt 7.30pm Reading 9 Reading Room Central LIbrary

Mon 10 Nov Jen Campbell James Reckitt 7.30pm Reading 10 Reading Room Central LIbrary

Tue 11 Nov Street Shrines & Zeppelins Ferens Art Gallery 12.30pm Poetry Reading 20

Tue 11 Nov Simon Armitage on War The Space 7.30pm Reading & in conversation 11 Poetry Central LIbrary with Steve Dearden

Wed 12 Nov Adelia Prado/Brazil James Reckitt 7.30pm Poetry Reading 12 Thomas Lux/USA Reading Room Ellen Dore Watson/USA Central LIbrary

Wed 12 Nov Trombone Poetry Goodfellowship Inn 8.30pm Jazz / Poetry 22

Thu 13 Nov The Battle For The Soul Hull Indoor Sports 7.30pm Talk 22 Of Football Centre

Thur 13 Nov Bonnie Greer Pave 8.15pm Reading & in conversation 13 with Russ Litten

Fri 14 Nov The Humber Writers James Reckitt 7.00pm Poetry Reading 21 Reading Room Central LIbrary

Fri 14 Nov Rosie Wilby Ferens 7.30pm One Woman Show 14 Live Arts Space

Sat 15 Nov James Booth Hull History Centre 1.30pm Reading 15

Sat 15 Nov Billy Goats Gruff Northpoint Shopping See Page 23 Theatre & Workshop 23 Centre

Sat 15 Nov Hollie McNish Kardomah94 8.00pm Poetry Performance 16

Sun 16 Nov Danny Rhodes Artlink 1.30pm Reading & in conversation 17 with Nick Quantrill

Sun 16 Nov Alan Johnson Kardomah94 7.30pm In conversation with 18 Steve Dearden

Mon 17 Nov Comic Book Workshop Astra Youth Centre See Page 24 Workshop 24

Mon 17 Nov Local Poets Night Pave 7.30pm Poetry Reading 19

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Festival Enquiries: tel: 01482 300300