http://www.darlingtonforculture.org/book-launches-at-the-festival/
Thursday May 12
Voodoo Café,
Skinnergate 7pm
Darlington-based
Inkerman Writers launch their new book Picture This with an evening of prose
and poetry. £2 on the door.
Thursday, 26 May
Vane Women 25th Anniversary Book Launch
Crown Street Gallery, Darlington, DL1 1ND
6.30-8.00 pm
Vane Women and guest poets will read from the latest Vane Women Press
anthology of photographs, poetry and prose. NORTHbound celebrates the 25th anniversary
of Vane Women, founded in 1991 to support the development and recognition of
women writers. The writing, publishing and performing collective has come
a long way from its beginnings in the women’s writing class that ran at the
late lamented Darlington Arts Centre in Vane Terrace.
This anthology contains Pat Maycroft’s wonderfully evocative images with
responses by Vane Women and guest writers who live in the North East and who
have been associated with Vane Women as their published authors or tutors of
masterclasses. What binds them all is a strong sense of place; of the North, of
a landscape both beautiful and harsh.
This is an edgeland that has weathered invasion by Vikings,
the rise and fall of heavy industry, poverty,
erosion and landslip. It has bred stubborn strength and a tough pride in
its people, whether they were born here or have chosen to live here.
NORTHbound represents the hard
graft of image-making, writing and publishing and honours the camaraderie of
writers who live in this region.
Admission Free
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