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Saturday 10th May 2008
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Open Reading.
Norway Square.
12.30 - 2.00
Free - donations requested.
Sue Johns.
Cornish performance poetry with an urban edge.
She was a founder member of Dodo Modern Poets, London's premier poetry performance experience.
Dhyano
St Ives own surreal performance poet.
Salthouse Gallery, Norway Square.
5.00pm.
Tickets: £4.00.
Gerald Hull.
A Londoner of lrish-Italian decent, a new poet for Penwith, living at Sancreed who lived and worked for many years in County Tyrone. Much published and well respected in Ireland, he has been guest editor of the South West edition of the Honest Ulsterman.
Mary Maher.
Much loved poet. Reads from her fourth book, Green Darlings (Oversteps Books). She keeps the spaces active, in some female embodiment, creating an erotic charge that invites and satisfies.
Salthouse Gallery, Norway Square.
8.00pm.
Tickets: £5.00.
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Sunday 11th May 2008
Open Reading.
Norway Square.
12.30 - 2.00
Free - donations requested.
Three Poets.
Evelyn Holloway, Jane Irvine & Crispin Williams.
Salthouse Gallery, Norway Square.
5.00pm.
Tickets: £4.00.
Books In The Bud.
Three novelists read from work in progress.
Kelvin Bowers, Rod Bullimore & Anna Chen.
Salthouse Gallery, Norway Square.
8.00pm.
Tickets: £4.00.
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Monday 12th May 2008
Open Reading.
Norway Square.
12.30 - 2.00
Free - donations requested.
Big Frug.
A gathering of poets, storytellers, filmmakers and musicians.
St Ives Arts Club.
8.00pm.
Tickets: £5.00.
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Tuesday 13th May 2008 - Etruscan Books Day
Open Reading.
Norway Square.
12.30 - 2.00
Free - donations requested.
Timothy Neat.
Talk that features a film on Hamish Henderson the Scottish poet and on The Auld Alliance, Cornwall and Scotland. Timothy Neat is a writer, filmmaker and art historian. Brought up in North Cornwall, he attended Launceston College (1955-63). He was a lecturer for three years at Plymouth College of Art before moving to Scotland. His film The Tree of the Liberty (about the songs of Robert Burns) won Best Documentary at the Celtic International Film and Television festival in 1987. His feature film Play Me Something, made with John Berger, won the Europa Prize as best film at the Barcelona Film Festival in 1989. He is author of eight books, the most recent being a biography of Hamish Henderson, Volume 1 (Polygon 2007), creates an enthralling picture of one of the 'giants of Celtic Culture in the 20th century.
St Ives Arts Club.
2.30pm.
Tickets: £5.00.
Nicholas Johnson.
The publisher of Etruscan Books talks about the intricacies of books and publishing.
Salthouse Gallery, Norway Square.
5.00pm.
Tickets: £4.00.
Nicholas Johnson.
The energetic publisher of Etruscan Books reads from his own poetry, his works include 'Eel Earth', 'Loup' & 'Haul Song' (Mammon Press) 'Show', 'Cleave' & 'Pelt' (Etruscan Books). His work brilliantly mingles 'traditional' lyric poetry with the anti-poetics of dada, the Concrete, the sonic, the performative. Johnson's is an acutely sensitive and unusual poetic vision.
Maurice Scully.
Reads from 5 freedoms of movement, "the new futurism of Maurice Scully explosive poetic collage comes close to the incendiary quality of the historical avant-garde" ... Alex Davis.
Stuart Montgomery.
Reads from Islands. In the 60s he ran the ground-breaking Fulcrum Press. "These poems, sensuous and crafted sing of the sea. They are chiselled into shape and swell with echoes like a conch shell held to the ear telling the ancient story" ... Tom Pickard.
St Ives Arts Club.
8.00pm.
Tickets: £5.00.
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Wednesday 14th May 2008 - Fal Publications Day
Open Reading.
Norway Square.
12.30 - 2.00
Free - donations requested.
Prompted to Write - a workshop with Victoria Field.
She trained as a Poetry Therapist and is a Professional Member of Lapidus, the UK's organisation for creative words for health and well-being. This workshop will offer an introduction to the use of creative writing to promote well-being. Victoria has co-edited two books on therapeutic writing, Prompted to Write (with Zeeba Ansari, fal 2007) and Writing Works (with Gillie Bolton and Kate Thompson, JKP 2006) and a collection of poems by homeless people in Cornwall for St Petrocs - Sleeping in the Rain. She works with many different groups and organisations - there will be a chance to discuss and ask questions about this increasingly popular use of creative writing.
St Ives Arts Club.
2.30pm - 4.00pm.
Tickets: £8.00.
Reading from books for children "A Mermaid, a Dragon and a Gift".
Fal Publications has produced four unique fables appealing for adults and children alike. All of them celebrate wonder, the unexpected and have delightful illustrations. Angela Stoner's Once in a Blue Moon is a fable of giving and receiving which The Cornishman said 'should be in the possession of all who share a passion for Cornwall' . Michael Power's Seiriol The Dragon takes us from Cornwall to Wales for Maddy's adventures with a temperamental dragon. The Gift by Victoria Field is set in Truro cathedral and features dogs, cats and other animals. The reading is suitable for anyone over 8 years old.
St Ives Arts Club.
5.30pm
Tickets: £5.00.
Reading from DM Thomas, Victoria Field and Jane Tozer.
Three of the Fal poets will be reading from their various collections. OM Thomas' Dear Shadows celebrates a lost era of village life in Cornwall and won the Holyer an Got Award for outstanding literary merit. His revised The Devil and the Floral Dance set at the Helston Flora combines poetry and prose. Victoria Field's first collection Olga's Dreams received warm reviews ("delicious" Poetry London) and her second Many Waters is based on a writing residency at Truro cathedral. Jane Tozer's book Knights of Love is a new translation of the 'Iais' of Marie de France, the earliest named woman poet in the French language. Her lais are rollicking song stories in the tradition of the Canterbury Tales. 'Faithful to the world of Marie, representing her tone of wistful admiration and earthy humour. .. intense, obsessive, sad, fey and movingly sexy.' The Times
St Ives Arts Club.
8.00pm
Tickets: £5.00.
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Thursday 15th May 2008
Open Reading.
Norway Square.
12.30 - 2.00
Free - donations requested.
Denys Val Baker, A Writer's Life.
A talk with slides given by Martin Val Baker.
Denys Val Baker was a Welshman - though he lived in Cornwall from 1948 until his death in 1984. He had well over a hundred books published including novels, short story collections and 26 autobiographical books. His stories were regularly broadcast on the radio and he also had numerous magazine and newspaper articles published. An active member of the Comish Arts community Val Baker edited the Cornish Review (1949-52 and 1966-74) a magazine that had a significant affect on the county's culture. His Cornish years were spent at Trencrom, Penzance, Sennen Cove, St Hilary, St Ives, Fowey and St Buryan. With the aid of slides Martin Val Baker remembers his father's adventures as a writer, editor and family man.
The Mariners Gallery.
7.00pm
Tickets: £5.00.
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Friday 16th May 2008 - Peterloo Poets Day
Open Reading.
Norway Square.
12.30 - 2.00
Free - donations requested.
The Publisher.
Harry Chambers talks about the Peterloo Press.
Salthouse Gallery, Norway Square.
2.30pm.
Tickets: £4.00.
Otis Mlcrolight Fear of Drowning.
"A playful but profound performance poetry, from his watching of the clock to his weighing of words, from his idiosyncratic look at everything from lust to love". Frank Ruhrmund in The Cornishman.
Dhyano
St Ives own surreal performance poet.
Salthouse Gallery, Norway Square.
5.00pm.
Tickets: £4.00.
Three Peterloo Poets.
M. R. Peacocke lives on a hill farm in Cumbria which is working as a small holding 'like Larkin, Peacocke has that all too rare gift of knowing how to make a memorable poem, even when she's experimenting, there's a directness and simplicity to her work, plain language, strong rhythm, full rhymes' (Stephen Knight, London Magazine). Four collections of her poetry have been published - Marginal Land (Peterloo 1988), Selves (Peterloo 1995), Speaking the Dead (Peterloo), & In Praise of Aunts (Peterloo 2008) which has received enthusiastic reviews.
Caroline Carver grew up in Bermuda, Jamaica and England. She worked in Canada before settling in Cornwall. She began writing poetry in the mid 1990s and won the National Poetry competition 1st prize in 1998. She has produced two books Jigharzi An Me, (Semi Colon Press 2002) in West-Indian dialect and Bone-fishing (Peterloo 2006) and is working on her third collection. She is poet in residence at Trebah Gardens in Cornwall and a Hawthorden Fellow. Last year in the company of Penelope Shuttle and Victoria Fields she did a poetry tour of Ontario, New York and New England.
Ann Alexander has lived in West Penwith for 24 years. She's produced two collections of poetry, Facing Demons (Peterloo 2002) and Nasty, British & Short (Peterloo 2007). Last year she won the Mslexia Competion and the Bedford Open.
Salthouse Gallery, Norway Square.
8.00pm.
Tickets: £5.00.
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Saturday 17th May 2008
Rod Humphries
Leads a walk in the steps of Gussie visiting the places featured in Ann Kelly's books The Bower Bird and The Burying Beetle.
Norway Square.
12.30 - 2.00
Free - donations requested.
Open Reading.
Norway Square.
12.30 - 2.00
Free - donations requested.
Ann Kelley.
The author reads from her second novel The Bower Bird (Luath Press 2007) which was the prestigious winner of the Costa Children's Award. It continues the story of Gussie, an insightful twelve-year- old girl who has a fatal heart condition but an irrepressible zest for life. It is the long awaited sequel to The Burying Beetle (Luath Press 2005) which was shortiisted for the Branford Boase award for an outstanding first novel. Her book of poems Because We Have Reached That Place was published by Oversteps in 2006.
Salthouse Gallery, Norway Square.
2.00pm.
Tickets: £4.00.
The Art Of Glass
First ever large-scale exhibition of its kind in St Ives which brings together the cream of the UK's glass practitioners. It explores the diversity of techniques and personalities at the cutting edge of the contemporary glass scene. Artists Peter Layton, Angela Thwaites, Max Jacquard and Matt Durrant will give talks about their own unique approach to this fascinating art medium.
Mariners Gallery & St Ives Society of Artists
16.00 - 18.00 - Talks
18.30 - 20.30 - Exhibition Opening
Free - donations requested.
A Lively Night
An evening of celebration to close the festival in style.
Salthouse Gallery, Norway Square.
8.30pm.
Tickets: £5.00.
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For more information and for tickets contact:
Bob Devereux - Festival Director
01736 753 899
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