Open Reading.
Norway Square.
12.30 - 2.00
Free - donations requested.

A Book In The Bud Reading - Kelvin Bowers
Kelvin reads from his children's book Scarper.
Samuel Swift is twelve years old and he can run! Really run! All his mates call him 'Scarper'. This is his story. It is the story of a journey from Enoch's pigeon coop at the allotments to the starting line of the marathon in London's 2012 Olympics.
Kelvin once held the under eighteen record for the indoor mile!
In 1974 he was the first man to run to Australia from a town in Britain. His book 'Throwing Plates At The Moon' told the story of that run.
Salthouse Gallery, Norway Square.
6.30pm.
Tickets: Free Event. Donations requested.

Poetry Reading - DM Thomas
The author of The White Hotel will read from his latest publication - Unknown Shores, Collected SF Poems.
In the 1960s, the decade of the first moon landings, heart transplants and extreme nuclear threat, he was the first to use the mythic thems of science fiction in poetry - exploring the hopes and fears of a world in which man's knowledge far exceeded his wisdom. Some of these poems appeared in Penguin Modern Poets II, on BBC Radio's Poetry Now, in leading SF magazines and anthologies. The poems are now collected for the first time, with an introduction by the author.
'It is Thomas' achievement to give us a clear if uncomfortable picture of both the loving and brutalising fantasies on which our hearts continue to feed' TLS.
Salthouse Gallery, Norway Square.
7.30pm.
Tickets: £6.00
DM Thomas Website

Sunday 3rd May 2009

Open Reading.
Norway Square.
12.30 - 2.00
Free - donations requested.

4pm TALK
THE ADVENTURES OF DYLAN THOMAS IN CORNWALL

Dylan Thomas lived for a while in Mousehole and was married at Penzance.
Rod Humphries has been searching for stories to tell.

Salthouse Gallery, Norway Square Donations

7.30pm READING
A CORNISH LAUREATE
Arthur Caddick was a legend Penzance and St Ives during his lifetime. For four decades his booming voice rang out, on the streets and in the pubs of West Penwith. He was a gifted writer and an engaging entertainer, never shrinking from having an irreverent and witty pop at everything from local politicians to the Gorsedd.
His memory has been allowed to fade. The launch of a major collection this year may have changed all that.
The new book, ‘Under a Cornish Sky,’ a 270 page hard back volume, contains tributes to Bryan Wynter & Peter Lanyon alongside fine lyrical poems for family and in celebration of Cornwall alongside such favourites as The Virtues of Bacchus & Never Sit Down in The Digey.

Family and friends will be on hand to share their memories of Arthur.

UNDER A CORNISH SKY has been edited by SIMON PARKER and is published in hard back with a silk bookmark by SCRYFA OF LINKINHORNE.

Salthouse Gallery, Norway Square. Donations

9.00pm Live Music - Charles Shaar Murray and Buffalo Bill Smith
An evening of rocking blues with ace guitarist Charles and harmonica wizard Bill.
Kettle 'n Wink Bar, Western Hotel, Royal Square.
Free entry.

9.00pm BOOK LAUNCH
JEREMY BELL reads from his new book PASSING THE FIRE

Jeremy really knows his planet. On leaving school he hitch-hiked through Europe, North Africa and the Middle East
before emigrating to Australia as a ’£10 tourist.’There he worked in mining towns, on fishing boats, drilling rigs and in an
institution for young aboriginal offenders. When he returned to England he became a PE teacher working at schools in London
and Devon.

He set up and directed Creation Restoration Ltd. In South Molton. This was the first comprehensive rural recycling business in the UK and was dedicated to Schumacher dictum ”Think Globally-Act Locally.’
He became a county councilor but resigned to take a post in London as publicity and marketing director for a world charity.
Having returned to Devon he is now the driving force behind a dream, which is yet to be realized. The Renaissance Maritime Charitable Trust aims to build a
cargo-carrying sailing ship to deliver relief supplies and self help technology to developing countries and crewed by young people at risk.

This launch will be followed by Bert Biscoe and Pol Hodge

Salthouse Gallery, Norway Square £5.00

Monday 4th May 2009

Open Reading.
Norway Square.
12.30 - 2.00
Free - donations requested.

4pm 2 POETS READING
Crispin Williams and Martha Street
Salthouse Gallery, Norway Square
Donations

7pm 2 POETS READING
Mary Maher and Jane Irvine
Salthouse Gallery, Norway Square
Donations

8.00pm Reading - Charles Shaar Murray
The legendary rock journalists and musician reads from his forthcoming novel:
The Hellhound Sample.
He also unveils The Unified Field Theory of The Blues.
Salthouse Gallery, Norway Square.
Tickets: £6.00

7.00pm Bob Devereux and Adrian O'Reilly .
Small disturbances. Bob with guitarist Adrian in concert.
Tickets: £6.00

8.00pm BOOK LAUNCH
FALLING INTO CORNWALL

A second major collection by London/Irish poet GERALD HULL

Gerald Hull, who holds a Ph.D. from the University of Wales, taught for thirty years in the North of Ireland. He has won bursaries from Poetry Ireland and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, guest edited a range of journals in Ireland and is
Associated with the William Carleton Summer School.
A Londoner ‘from the Caledonian Road,’ he has settled with his wife Margaret O’Malley in West Cornwall. They live in an old chapel in Sancreed, which has a history of social/religious and spiritual devotion they can be charted back over seventeen hundred years. The majority of his recent poems explore this world.
His collection also parallels themes, experiences and interpretations established in his first collection ‘Falling into Monaghan.’

FALLING INTO CORNWALL contains 18 drawings by the Czech artist
John Krcma these will be displayed at the Gallery on the day of the reading.
It has been published by RED BEAK PRESS Penryn
Salthouse Gallery, Norway Square
Tickets £6.00

Wednesday 6th May 2009

Open Reading.
Norway Square.
12.30 - 2.00
Free - donations requested.

2.30pm Workshop - Prompted To Write - 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 Library
Tickets: £8.00

8.00 pm Reading - Poetry and Story from Fal Publications
Victoria Field, Angela Stoner and Jane Tozer.
Three Fal authors will present a varied evening of poetry and story.

Victoria Field is former writer-in-residence at Truro Cathedral and her collection Many Waters is based on that time. She also writes fiction and has had two plays produced by Hall for Cornwall.

Angela Stoner's poetry and short stories have appeared in many journals including Mslexia, The South and Acumen. Her fable Once in a Blue Moon, beautifully illustrated by St Ives artist Michele Wright, is in its second printing and has sold worldwide.

Jane Tozer is a prize-winning translator and Knights of Love, her version of the Lais de Marie de France was described in the Times as 'faithful to the world of Marie, representing her tone of wistful admiration and earthy humour... intense, obsessive, sad, fey and movingly sexy'.

Salthouse Gallery, Norway Square £6.00

Fal Publications Website

8pm PERFORMANCE
THE BIG FRUG
An entertaining evening of poetry, music and film.
St Ives Arts Club , The Warren, St Ives
Tickets £6.00

Friday 8th May 2009

Open Reading.
Norway Square.
12.30 - 2.00
Free - donations requested.

7.00 pm Talk - Anna May Wong Must Die!
An illustrated talk about actress Anna May Wong by Anna Chen.
Based on her BBC Radio 4 broadcast A Celestial Star in Piccadilly.
Anna Chen was born and raised in Hackney, East London. In 1994 she took her ground breaking one-woman comedy show, Suzy Wrong-Human Cannon, to the Edinburgh Festival making her the first British-born Chinese comedienne to do so. This was followed by more solo shows I, Imelda and Taikonaut: How To Save The World Part 1. She was the first Chinese comic on TV with her debut with her BBC 2 debut in Stewart Lee’s ‘Fist Of Fun,’ in 1996. Anna took time out from her performing career to organize the press operation for the anti war movement in the aftermath of the events of September 2001 and during the build up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Her ten part BBC Radio 4 series on the history of the Chinese in Britain was repeated in two Omnibus programmes in May 2008. She wrote and narrated the Radio 4 play ‘Red Guard, Yellow Submarine.’ She often to be heard on BBC radio talking about Chinese matters and current affairs. She also presents live events such as the Chinese City Showcase (2006 and 2008), and China Late at The British Museum for the 2008 First Emperor Exhibition.
Salthouse Gallery, Norway Square.
Tickets: £6.00

8.30pm BOOK LAUNCH
PHIL BOWEN reads from NOWHERE’S FAR – SALT PUBLICATIONS
New and Selected poems 1990-2008

‘Bursting with energy ……Lively and Skilful ‘ - D.M.THOMAS

‘Great to see Phil Bowen’s poems collected…..A riotous assembly’ – BRIAN PATTEN

‘The Wasteland of the Twentieth Century ‘- DAVE WOOLEY (Dylan Thomas Centre)

‘Amazing …….quite incredible! ‘ - Mel Scaffold (Apples & Snakes)

‘A Work of Genius’ - John Cooper Clarke

'A real tour de force' - Roger McGough

Phil Bowen was born in Liverpool in 1949. His collections of poetry include:

The Professor’s Boots (Westwords) 1994, Variety”s Hammer (Stride) 1997, selected for the Forward Book of Poetry-1998, and Starfly published by Stride in 2004. He has also edited two anthologies for Jewels and Binoculars (in which 50 poets celebrate Bob Dylan), and Things We Said Today (Poetry about the Beatles) and one biography A Gallery To Play To (The story of the Mersey Poets) reprinted by Liverpool University Press 2008.

Tickets: £6.00

Click Here To Download Details Of Nowhere's Far

Saturday 9th May 2009

Open Reading.
Norway Square.
12.30 - 2.00
Free - donations requested.

2.30pm FILMS
ETRUSCAN BOOKS
The publisher & poet Nicholas Johnson
& Brian Catling (Internationally, renowned poet, sculpture and performance artist) will present two Films at the Salthouse Gallery
this afternoon

Born in London in 1948 Brian Catling walks out of step. He has been commissioned to make solo installations and performances in many countries including Spain, Japan, Iceland, Israel, Holland, Norway, Germany and Greenland. He founded the international performance group ‘The Wolf In The Winter’. His video work
Moves between gallery installations and narrative films made in collaboration with Tony Grisoni.
Catling has produced nine books of poetry and his work is included in many anthologies.
He is professor of fine art at the Ruskin School of Drawing & Fine Art, University of Oxford and a Fellow of Linacre College.

Salthouse Gallery Norway Square £6.00

7pm A READING WITH BRIAN CATLING AND NICHOLAS JOHNSON
Salthouse Gallery, Norway Square £6.00

8pm FESTIVAL PARTY
Salthouse Gallery, Norway Square