Books & Spoken Word

Tim Dee – Landfill launch

Date: Friday, Oct 5 2018
Time: 7:30pm
Venue: Centrespace
Price: £15
Artists
Tim Dee, Tessa Hadley, Holly Corfield Carr

Caught by the River and Little Toller celebrate the publication of Tim Dee’s Landfill – a groundbreaking new book from the author of The Running Sky and Four Fields.  Landfill confronts our waste-making species through the extraordinary and fascinating life of gulls, and the people who watch them. The event will feature:

– a reading from Landfill from Tim Dee;

– a rare appearance from Turner Prize-winning landscape artist Richard Long, who will be interviewed by Tim;

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– a talk on gulls from writer, naturalist and conservationist Mark Cocker;

– poetry from Holly Corfield Carr, Jack Thacker and Paul Farley;

– a talk from artist, Bristolian, and Landfill illustrator Greg Poole;

– a talk from the celebrated writer, Tessa Hadley, who is also one of the dedicatees of Landfill.

Caught By The River will ensure a fully stocked bar and bookshop, and great tunes ’til close.

Tickets cost £15 in advance, and are available online (with a small booking fee), in person from the Letterpress Collective Studio at the Centrespace Gallery, or over the counter at Friendly Records, 59-61 North St, Bristol, BS3 1ES.

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By joe melia, Monday, Sep 3 2018

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