Join us at the Wrecking Ball Arts Centre for an evening of poetry from Carcanet Press published poets. Katherine Horrex, Charlotte Eichler and Maryam Hessavi will all read their work at this event. Charlotte Eichler is a poet based in West Yorkshire. Her work has recently appeared in Carcanet’s New Poetries VIII anthology, and magazines including PN […]
"He is the archetypal bluff Yorkshireman, a figure seemingly created in its own image by the land which bore him" - Harpers & Queen Born in 1946, the son of a fishworker, Rutter grew up in a two-up two-down on the Hessle Road, the fish dock area of Hull. His acting career began colourfully, invited by an […]
Robin Ince is many things. A comedian, an author, a broadcaster and a populariser of scientific ideas. The Guardian once declared him a ‘becardiganed polymath’ which seems about right. New book The Importance of Being Interested – Adventures in Scientific Curiosity is published in October 2021 and Robin heads to Hull and the Wrecking Ball […]
Hollie McNish is a poet whose readings are not to be missed. Hollie is based between Glasgow and Cambridge. She won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry for her poetic parenting memoir – Nobody Told Me - of which The Scotsman stated ‘The World Needs this Book’. She has published three further collections […]