PIBF 2013 by Literature Works

Plymouth INTERNATIONAL BOOK FESTIVAL 2013

Thursday 31 October – Saturday 9 November 2013 www.plymouthinternationalbookfestival.com

Join the author for a discussion around her accessible and thoughtful book, Christians, Muslims & Jesus, in which Muslim scholar and popular commentator Mona Siddiqui takes her reader on a personal, theological journey exploring the centrality of Jesus in Christian-Muslim relations, concluding with Mona’s own reflections on the cross and its possible meaning in her Muslim faith.

WELCOME

We’re delighted to welcome you to the second Plymouth International Book Festival. The festival partners – Literature Works, Peninsula Arts, Plymouth University and Plymouth City Council – aim to celebrate the world of books and ideas in the rapidly increasing arts and cultural scene of this vibrant and historic city. The festival team is active throughout the year working with individuals, organisations and schools to support reading and writing activities across the city. The festival is pleased to present some of the best writers, poets and speakers from Plymouth, the UK and the world for 10 days of fun, talks and discussions. We have readings, workshops, performances, films and music all with a respectful nod to the word and text. We have over 40 fantastic events in this year’s programme, featuring world-renowned writers such as Ben Okri, Charlie Higson, Kate Mosse, Lemn Sissay and Linton Kwesi Johnson, and local authors including Simon James, Kenny Knight and Tom Vowler. With film screenings showing the versatility of the spoken word, concerts demonstrating the magic of combining words and music, and artists who combine the visual world with stories and texts we are sure there is something in the festival for everyone. Working with the event partners, we are aiming to bring Plymouth alive with literature this year, with activities in a range of diverse venues that includes Plymouth University, Plymouth Arts Centre, the Athenaeum, Plymouth Social Club and the Voodoo Lounge.

This year the festival will be collecting for the Literature Works Grassroots Fund. Through this fund, Literature Works provides help for communities to develop more opportunities to get involved with reading and writing - and all funds raised through festival collecting tubs will go to groups and individuals around Plymouth! So come along! Join in the celebrations!

Bertel Martin PIBF Director

BECOME A FRIEND

The Friends of Plymouth International Book Festival scheme supports a year round programme of writing and reading activities with people and community groups who would otherwise struggle to take part. We work within the city of Plymouth and its environs, and your support offers the chance for more people in the region to get involved with the life-changing world of books, reading and writing. To help secure the future of the Plymouth International Book Festival and literature programme, please join one of our membership schemes today and get some great offers and benefits, including priority booking and invites to Friends only events throughout the year. We offer three levels of friendships, each with different benefits. Friend - £20 per year. • £2 discount off tickets to participating Plymouth International Book Festival events. • Priority access to the programme through advanced e-mailing. • 1 week priority booking ahead of the general public for event tickets. • Exclusive invitation to an event dedicated to Friends during the year. • Discounts, treats and special offers through the Friends e-newsletter (offered via email address only).

Folio Friend - £250 per year. All of the Friend benefits plus: • 2 complimentary tickets to the VIP launch event. • Acknowledgement of your support on the Festival website ‘Friends’ page. • A personally signed book by any of our Festival authors (subject to availability). Champion / Corporate Friend - £500 per year All of the Folio Friend benefits plus: • Dedicated assistance with priority bookings for event tickets. • 4 complimentary tickets to the VIP launch event. • 10 complimentary tickets to be used at selected events during the Festival and annual programme. • Acknowledgement of your support in our printed programme (including corporate logo if appropriate). • Opportunities to meet our authors during the festival (to be arranged in advance and subject to author availability and agreement). For full terms and conditions please visit www.plymouthinternationalbookfestival.com or contact info@literatureworks.org.uk

Plymouth International Book Festival

This year the Plymouth International Book Festival has over 40 events in 12 venues across the city. With workshops, talks and readings that cover poetry, short stories, crime writing and more, the festival brings the best of local, UK and international writers. Whether you want to meet much loved authors, discover new writing voices or develop your own writing skills the festival has something for everyone.

venues

Plymouth University, Roland Levinsky Building

Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery

Plymouth Central Library

Plymouth College of Art

Plymouth Social Club

Voodoo Lounge

Waterstones, Drake Circus

Plymouth Arts Centre

Plymouth Guildhall

10 B-Bar, Barbican Theatre 11 The Athenaeum 12 KARST, 22 George Place Bookshops The festival bookshop is provided by Waterstones. Their team will be at book launches and readings. To purchase books related to other events, please visit the Drake Circus branch.

Facilities for visitors with disabilities The RLB has level access from the north entrances and lift access from Cobourg Street. Access is available for disabled people in all venues used by Peninsula Arts on the University campus. Other venues have varying degrees of accessibility for visitors with disabilities. We advise that you check with the venue prior to your visit. For support with checking accessibility please email info@ literatureworks.org.uk. Visiting with children We request that all children under 10 years of age are accompanied by an adult. Latecomers policy We recommend you arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the published commencement time as admittance may be restricted after the published commencement time of the event. Ticket prices Tickets for most events can be purchased in advance from our website or by visiting the Peninsula Arts Box Office. For other events they will have to be purchased at the event on a first come first serve basis.

Author signings Ticket code Our authors will be pleased to sign books after their Code A Tickets can be purchased from the events. All signings will be held next to the bookshop festival website and by visiting the in venues. Peninsula Arts Box Office. Code B

Tickets can only be purchased at the event.

Code C

The event is free but advanced booking is required.

CODE PF PIBF Friend discount is available.

at a glance

Date

Event

Page

Thur 31 Oct

A Universal Archive: William Kentridge As Printmaker

Thur 31 Oct

Bookbinding workshop with Tom O’Reilly

Thur 31 Oct

Poetry Masterclass with Philip Gross

Thur 31 Oct

The Enemy with Charlie Higson

Thur 31 Oct

Later with Philip Gross

Thur 31 Oct

SS Blue Jacket – Exhibition & Catalogue Launch

Thur 31 Oct

Yes Papa! Mrs Chapone & the Bluestocking Circle with Barbara Eaton

Thur 31 Oct

Talking Myself Home with Ian McMillan

Thur 31 Oct

Zombie Ball

Fri 1 Nov

My First Story Book with Simon James

Fri 1 Nov

Young Writers’ Squad Book Launch

Fri 1 Nov

Lemn Sissay

Fri 1 Nov

Book arts & craft with Plymouth Play Association

Fri 1 Nov

Take Me I’m Yours with Take Me I’m Yours Collective

Fri 1 Nov

The Mistletoe Bride & Other Winter Tales with Kate Mosse

Fri 1 Nov

The Unbuilt Room with Seth Krieble

Fri 1 Nov

Live & Loud 1 with Lemn Sissay

Sat 2 Nov

Expanded Narrative Symposium

Sat 2 Nov

Representations of Modernity 1850-1960

Sat 2 Nov

Take Me I’m Yours with Take Me I’m Yours Collective

Sat 2 Nov

Short Story Masterclass with Courttia Newland

Sat 2 Nov

The Gospel According to Cane with Courttia Newland

Sat 2 Nov

The Unbuilt Room with Seth Krieble

Sat 2 Nov

Vaughan Williams & Tchaikovsky, Ten Tors Orchestra

Sat 2 Nov

We Are Poets Film Screening

Sat 2 Nov

The Pre-War House & Other Stories with Alison Moore

Sat 2 Nov

Live & Loud 2 with Dizraeli

Sat 2 Nov

Modern Griot with Ben Okri

Date

Event

Page

Sun 3 Nov

PADMouth (Published and be Damned in Plymouth)

Sun 3 Nov

The War in Plymouth: Destruction & A New Beginning

Mon 4 Nov

Short Fiction Launch

Mon 4 Nov

Flash Fiction Slam with Plymouth Athenaeum Writers’ Group

Mon 4 Nov

Christians, Muslims & Jesus with Mona Siddiqui

Mon 4 Nov

Architects of Our Republic: The Poetry Films with Apples and Snakes

Tue 5 Nov

Telling Tales – Comic Book Creation

Tue 5 Nov

The Universe Versus Alex Woods with Gavin Extence

Tue 5 Nov

Lit Festival Special: Open Mic Night

Wed 6 Nov

Telling Tales – Comic Book Creation

Wed 6 Nov

Children’s Anthology Launch

Wed 6 Nov

Setting the Scene with Tom Vowler & Michael Jecks

Wed 6 Nov

Plymouth Language Club Reading

Thur 7 Nov

Cogtalk with John Bird & Doctor Michaela Gummerum

Thur 7 Nov

House of Small Shadows with Adam Nevill

Fri 8 Nov

Keep it in the Family with Vicki & Jane Feaver

Fri 8 Nov

Live & Loud 3 with Linton Kwesi Johnson

Sat 9 Nov

Writing Society with Helen Dunmore & Suzi Feay

Sat 9 Nov

Illustrating Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice with Annika Bautz

Sat 9 Nov

Writing Workshop with Christopher Wakling

Sat 9 Nov

What I Did with Christopher Wakling

Sat 9 Nov

Poemetrics Film Screening

Sat 9 Nov

Live & Loud 4 with Inua Ellams

All details correct at press time, but may be subject to change. Please check our website for any updates or changes to the programme before travelling to events.

Thursday 31 october

Bookbinding workshop

Poetry Masterclass

Tom O’Reilly, Little Egret Press,

Philip Gross

This unique and fun day is a beginner’s guide to the basics of this fascinating and timeless craft. You will learn several styles of sewing and binding including Coptic binding, Japanese binding and traditional case binding, to produce your very own works of art!

Join award-winning poet, and Plymouth International Book Festival patron, Philip Gross for a comprehensive workshop on the creation of poems.

Thursday 31 October, 11.00 – 15.00 Plymouth College of Art, Tavistock Place Free Ticket Code C

Early booking is recommended as places are limited

Since 2004 Philip has been Professor of Creative Writing at Glamorgan University, previously teaching Tom O’Reilly has taught the art of hand bookbinding for some years at Bath Spa University College. He has worked extensively as a writer in schools and for many years at Plymouth University, Plymouth College of Art, University College Falmouth and Port leading writing workshops for all ages. Eliot Festival. He has taught all age groups, from Philip is the author of several poetry collections, children as young as four to retired adults, and has including The Ice Factory; Cat’s Whisker; The Son tutored and lectured at BA and MA level. of the Duke of Nowhere; I.D. and The Wasting Game, selected poems from all of which are Limited to 10 places, advance booking required. collected in Changes of Address: Poems 1980www.tomoreillybookbinder.co.uk 1998, a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation.

Thursday 31 October, 14.00 Plymouth Central Library £12/10 PIBF Friend and concession Ticket Code A, PF

Charlie Higson

Philip Gross

The Enemy

Later

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PHILIP GROSS LATER

Challenging and tender, these poems are a rite of passage. Philip Gross’s much praised previous collection, Deep Field, explored the loosening connections between the self and language in his refugee father’s old age.

P H I L I P G RO S S

This new book goes further, through the failing of the body, through the mind’s weakening hold on the borderline between the present and the traumas of the past. It follows the journey to the end… then beyond, to the tentative byways through which mourning moves. With an instinct for form that both controls and releases depths of feeling, Philip Gross writes poetry that proves it can be trusted with the most raw yet essential things of life. ‘A powerful and tender successor to the T.S. Eliot prize-winning The Water Table… The writing is sinewy, urgent and resourceful. This poet is a master of form, deploying his visual and aural patterns for emphasis, as if the page were a musical score… The collection evokes an essence of what it is to be human, the sense of both wonder and estrangement, our place within science, the sheer oddness of who we are. Deep Field is as strong in celebration as in lamentation. With language as its theme, it soars linguistically’ – MICHAEL SYMMONS ROBERTS & MONIZA ALVI, PBS Bulletin ‘This book speaks directly…how language can convey, transcend and re-enchant human experience. Philip Gross has not only honoured his father but created something of great beauty and wonder out from those final wordless years’ – VICTORIA FIELD, Lapidus Journal

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Charlie Higson is a man of many talents. He is a successful actor, comedian and writer for television and radio and has been writing books for children since 2005. Author of the popular series, ‘Young Bond’, Charlie will be discussing The Fallen the most recent book in his series ‘The Enemy’ with horror writer Johnny Mains. A must see for children and adults. The Holloway crew are survivors. They’ve fought their way across London and made it to the Natural History Museum alive - just. But the fight will never end while the Enemy lives, unless there’s another way. . . The kids at the museum are looking for a cure. All they need are medical supplies. To get them means a journey down unknown roads. Roads where not only crazed, hungry sickos hide in the shadows. SUDDENLY IT’S NOT SO CLEAR WHO - OR WHAT THEY’RE FIGHTING. “Higson has got the balance of blood and gore just right” Daily Mirror Thursday 31 October, 18.00 Theatre 1, Roland Levinsky Building £6/4 PIBF Friend and concession Ticket Code A, PF

Join Philip Gross as he reads from his latest poetry collection. Following his much praised, Deep Field, in which he explored the loosening connections between the self and language in his refugee father’s old age, comes the collection Later. £9.95

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His new book goes further, through the failing of the body and the mind’s weakening hold on the borderline between the present and the past. Philip Gross writes poetry that proves it can be trusted with the raw yet essential elements of life. Philip is the author of several poetry collections, including The Ice Factory; Cat’s Whisker; The Son of the Duke of Nowhere; I.D. and The Wasting Game, selected poems from all of which are collected in Changes of Address: Poems 19801998, a Poetry Book Society Special Commendation. “Philip Gross knows how to make silence and suggestion resonate… he touches an alien, intractable dimension… Gross’s poems are about lost bearings and blurred frontiers” Terry Eagleton, Independent on Sunday. Thursday 31 October, 18.30 Waterstones, Drake Circus £6/4 PIBF Friend and concession Ticket Code A, PF

Thursday 31 october

SS Blue Jacket Exhibition & Catalogue

Barbara Eaton

Simon Bayliss & Lucy Stein

Yes Papa! Mrs Chapone and the Bluestocking Circle

Featuring Artists: BERYL COOK, PETER LANYON, SHANA MOULTON, LUCY STEIN, EDWARD STEIN, MERLIN JAMES, ROBERT LENKIEWICZ, MATTHEW RICHARDSON, SIMON BAYLISS, SIMON FUJIWARA as you have never seen them before. Left at the helm, long after the captain of SS Blue Jacket had retired to his wife below deck, the First Mate became infatuated by an arousing light at sea… Bayliss & Stein’s erotically-charged interpretation of the fishy local tale of ‘SS Blue Jacket’ - a ship which crashed into a lighthouse on a clear night - is an anchor for the themes of the exhibition at KARST. The emphasis within this multi-generational show is painting; the sea and the West Country coast serve as a grand backdrop or force behind the artists’ practices. Art-world notions of insider or outsider, high or low, old or new, have been eroded in the tidal-wash, replaced by the personal mythologies of the artists involved. An accompanying catalogue, designed by award-winning graphic designer Rupert GowerCliff, will be launched at the opening event. It will include a continuation of Bayliss & Stein’s ongoing conversation about art practice which plumbs the depths - baring an artist’s psyche and heritage essays by acclaimed art writers, and images of the artists’ work.

Barbara Eaton visits Plymouth to discuss her biography of Hester Chapone, Yes Papa! Mrs Chapone and the Bluestocking Circle.

31 October, 19.00 Opening event and catalogue launch Exhibition open until 17 November 2013 http://www.karst-projects.org/ KARST, 22 George Place, Stonehouse Free

The Bluestockings were an informal women’s social and educational movement in England in the mid18th century. The society emphasized education and mutual co-operation rather than the individualism which marked the French version. “Barbara Eaton’s delightful biography has restored (Hester) Chapone to her rightful place… a vivid portrait of Chapone as both ‘spitfire’ and dutiful daughter, earnest moralist and irreverent satirist.” Dr Elizabeth Eger, King’s College, London Thursday 31 October, 19.30 Plymouth Athenaeum, Derry’s Cross, Plymouth, PL1 2SW For more information telephone (01752) 266079 or email bussec@plymouthathenaeum.co.uk

Ian McMillan

Zombie Ball

Talking Myself Home

Rich Pitman

Ian McMillan, the Bard of Barnsley and a national treasure, brings us his autobiography in verse.

Celebrate the most ghoulish holiday of the year, Halloween, by dancing the night away at our retro disco featuring popular horror anthems, zombie themed drinks and a chance to get creative with your fancy dress!

Ian is poet-in-residence for The Academy of Urbanism and Barnsley FC. Previously he was resident poet for English National Opera, UK Trade & Investment Poet , Yorkshire TV’s Investigative Poet and Humberside Police’s Beat Poet . He presents The Verb every week on BBC R3 and he’s a regular on Coast, Pick of the Week , You & Yours, Last Word and The Arts Show. He was recently castaway on Desert Island Discs and featured with his Orchestra on The South Bank Show. Cats make him sneeze. “We haven’t laughed so much for years, he was an absolute hit.” Grimsby Everyman Club Thursday 31 October, 20.00 Theatre 1, Roland Levinsky Building £8/6 PIBF Friend and concession Ticket Code A, PF

Plymouth Zombie Ball is a celebration of the dark and unnatural nature of gothic fantasy fiction sponsored by Ghostly Publishing. There will be opportunity to discuss your favourite horror fiction with authors and publishers including People’s Book Prize finalist Rich Pitman, author of Jimmy Threepwood and The Veil of Darkness, who will speak about his eagerly anticipated second novel. Thursday 31 October, 20.00 Voodoo Lounge £5 available from www.ghostlypublishing.com/ zombiedance

Friday 1 NOVEMber

Festival Children’s Day Simon James, Lemn Sissay, Young Writers Squad, Plymouth Play Association

A day of activities and fun for children. 11.00 – 11.45 Join Simon James, award-winning author, and Plymouth Play Association staff in an exciting, learning activity for children as they help you tell your own story in words and pictures to create a special story book. Simon James has written many children’s books, including, The Day Jake Vacuumed, Sally and the Limpet , The Wild Woods and The Birdwatchers which have established Simon as one of the country’s leading author/illustrators. Simon continues to be a much sought-after speaker at festivals and conferences both in the UK and in the USA. His latest title, due out next year is called Rex , a book about dinosaurs and adoption! Suitable for children aged 6-11 years. 12.00 – 12.45 The Plymouth Young Writers have been working together for a year under the guidance of Plymouth based writer Babs Horton to produce their own book. Come along to the launch of this exciting new publication and celebrate with the young writers themselves as they read from the book. With the opportunity to purchase this captivating read and have it signed by future Plymothian writing stars!

15.00 – 15.45 Come along to this inspirational talk from author and broadcaster Lemn Sissay where he will discuss his childhood and how important writing was for him while he was growing up. He will also be reading some of his award-winning poems. Lemn Sissay is committed to young people finding their voice, having a voice, using their voice. He backs it up with actions as a patron for the Letterbox Club, Coping and ambassador for the Children’s Reading Fund. Throughout the day Plymouth Play Association staff will help you create your own story book. Plus more fun things to do and see. Friday 1 November, 10.00 – 15.30 Plymouth Guildhall Free

Friday 1 NOVEMber

The Mistletoe Bride The Take Me I’m Yours Collective & Other Winter Tales Take Me I’m Yours Opera: Beyond the Supermarkets

Kate Mosse

Expanded Narrative Symposium / Plymouth International Book Festival

Kate Mosse, author of the bestselling novel Labyrinth, will be reading and discussing her first ever collection of stories, The Mistletoe Bride & Other Winter Tales.

We like to think that we, the humans, are in control of the inanimate objects around us—cereal boxes, Kate is the author of the multi-million selling sugar cubes, printer paper. What happens, though, when objects start talking back, telling us what to do? international No.1 Languedoc Trilogy. Translated into 37 languages and published in 40 countries, the first This unique interactive performance draws on of the series, Labyrinth, was the bestselling book in research by Chris Speed and Duncan Shingleton the UK in 2006, named as one of Waterstones’ best into object-agency, using an iPhone App that lets novels of the past 25 years and was made into a objects instruct their users rather than the other feature film for Channel 4 television by Ridley Scott. way around. Friday 1 November, 14.00 Friday 1 November, 11.30 – 12.00 ; Sherwell Upper Lecture Theatre Saturday 2 November, 13.00 – 14.00 £6/4 PIBF Friend and concession Ticket Code A, PF Roland Levinsky Building (Meet at Peninsula Arts Box Office) Free Ticket Code C

Seth Krieble

Lemn Sissay

The Unbuilt Room

Live and Loud 1

The Unbuilt Room is a performance game exploring how places create memories… and how memories create places. Small groups of players wander through rooms real and imagined in a collaborative act of memory to create imagined, immersive theatre.

Join poet and playwright Lemn Sissay for an evening of passion and poetry.

Versions of The Unbuilt Room have been performed at the Science Museum, Turner Contemporary, The Royal Geographical Society, Hastings Museum, Royal Holloway University, Stratford Circus... and a houseboat in Shorehamby-Sea. Artist and Producer Seth Kriebel’s work is characterised by short, interactive pieces for small audiences. The performances are interactive and involve six playing audience members, each performance lasts 20 minutes. (2 performances per hour) This performance is taking place as part of the Expanded Narrative Symposium http://www. expandednarrative.org/symposium.

Lemn Sissay, MBE, is associate artist at the Southbank Centre, Europe’s largest arts complex. He was the first poet commissioned to write for the 2012 Olympics and his poem Spark Catchers is etched into a transformer on the Olympic site. In 2008 he travelled to the Arctic with Jarvis Cocker, Laurie Anderson, Martha Wainwright and KT Tunstall to inspire them to respond to climate change within their work. His play Something Dark is winner of a RIMA award and has been performed around the world. “Fierce, funny, serious, satirical, streetwise and tender.” The Big Issue Friday 1 November, 20.00 Theatre 1, Roland Levinsky Building £8/6 PIBF Friend and concession Ticket Code A, PF

www.sethkriebel.wordpress.com Friday 1 November, 18.00 – 20.00 Saturday 2 November, 18.00 – 20.30 Meet at Peninsula Arts Box Office at 17.45 £5 Ticket Code A

SATURday 2 NOVEMber

Representations of Expanded Narrative Symposium Modernity 1850-1960 Nick Ryan, Jo Reid, Tassos Stevens and Misha Myers

Dr. D Katz, Dr V.M Plock

The Expanded Narrative Symposium explores the multidisciplinary field of interactive narrative that reconfigures the form and expands the experience of storytelling. The reader, relocated, becomes a player, co-author or participant. How can we design, develop and experience locative sound, participatory theatre, pervasive and mobile games, flash fiction and works yet to be defined? Through the consideration of these questions, the symposium aims to promote knowledge exchange and collaboration between practitioners from the arts, academia and the creative industries.

This is a one-day all-inclusive interdisciplinary conference that appreciates and considers Modernity as a broad set of historical conditions, obtaining differently in various times and places.

The symposium’s interconnected themes of story, sound, performance, games and space reflect the interdisciplinary nature of the field of Expanded Narrative. Speakers include leading names in the field from the arts, academia and the creative industries. Live performances of The Unbuilt Room by Seth Kriebel, participatory theatre work Take Me I’m Yours Opera by Chris Speed, Duncan Shingleton and Kristin Mojsiewicz, poetry readings by Lytton Smith and Locative Narrative The Letters by Emma Whittaker are scheduled around the symposium in conjunction with Peninsula Arts and Literature Works. Saturday 2 November, performances on Friday 1 November and Sunday 3 November Roland Levinsky Building Early Bird Fee £40 Full Fee £50 No cost to Plymouth University staff and students

Intended for Postgraduate taught and research students from the disciplines of Literature, History, Art History, Architecture and Cultural Studies the conference aims to present ideas and discuss the significance and impact of the complex nature of Modernity; to consider its multiple facets, and how it is represented through various artistic and cultural mediums. Saturday 2 November, 11:00 – 16:00 £10.00 (Free to Plymouth University students) Places limited, pre-booking only

A Universal Archive: William Kentridge as Printmaker

Short Story Masterclass

William Kentridge

Courttia Newland

A Universal Archive (2012) Courtesy the Artist, Photo: John Hodgkiss, ©The Artist

A Universal Archive: William Kentridge as Printmaker, a Hayward Touring exhibition at Peninsula Arts, will be the first UK exhibition to focus solely on the internationally renowned South African artist’s prints.

Have you ever wanted to write your own short story? Develop your skills and understanding of this increasingly popular form from one of the country’s most original storytellers, Courttia Newland, in this Short Story Masterclass.

This major exhibition will include a multitude of prints in all media dating from 1988 to the present, ranging in scale from intimate etchings and drypoints to large linocuts. New works from Kentridge’s on-going series Universal Archive, including Cat Assemblage (2012) and 12 Coffee Pots (2012), will be on display in Britain for the first time.

Courttia co-edited the anthology IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain, and his short stories have featured in many other anthologies including The Time Out Book of London Short Stories: Vol 2, England Calling: 24 Stories for the 21st Century and Disco 2000.

With a stress on experimental and serial works, this exhibition will highlight Kentridge’s distinctive use of light and shadow and silhouettes, his concern with memory and perspective, and his absorption in literary texts.

Saturday 2 November, 14.00 Plymouth Central Library £12/10 PIBF Friend and concession Ticket Code A, PF

A Hayward Touring exhibition from Southbank Centre, London. Monday 28 October - Saturday 30 November Peninsula Arts, Roland Levinsky Building

SATURday 2 NOVEMber

The Gospel According To Cane

The Pre-War House and Other Stories by Alison Moore

Courttia Newland

Alison Moore

Courttia Newland, novelist, playwright and screenwriter joins us to speak about his latest novel, The Gospel According to Cane.

A writer whose star is definitely on the rise, Alison Moore will be in conversation with Johnny Mains, award winning editor, biographer and horror historian.

His other novels include Snakeskin, The Dying Wish and The Scholar. Newland has been shortlisted Alison Moore’s The Lighthouse was shortlisted for for several awards, including the CWA Dagger, the the 2012 Man Booker Prize and the New Writer of the Frank O’ Connor and the Edge Hill awards. Year Category in the 2012 National Book Awards. About The Gospel According to Cane: Beverley Cottrell had a dream life: a prestigious job, a beautiful husband and new baby boy. But then, one winter afternoon, when her son was barely a few weeks old, he was kidnapped from a parked car and was never found. Two decades later, Beverley starts to believe that she has finally pieced her life together - until a young man starts to appear wherever she goes.

She’ll be reading from her latest collection of short fiction, The Pre-War House and Other Stories, which includes stories shortlisted for more than a dozen different awards.

“Newland writes...with sensitivity and complexity. The Gospel According to Cane, his seventh book, is a coming-of-middle-age novel, but one seasoned with style and sophistication.” Bernadine Evaristo, The Guardian

Saturday 2 November, 18.30 Waterstones, Drake Circus Ticket Code A, PF £6/4 PIBF Friend and concesssion

Saturday 2 November, 16.00 Plymouth Central Library £6/4 PIBF Friend and concession Ticket Code A, PF

“The level of accomplishment on display in this bleak narrative is remarkable…Moore’s distinctive voice commands exceptional power.” Dinah Birch, The Guardian.

WE ARE POETS

Vaughan Williams & Tchaikovsky

Film Screening

Ten Tors Orchestra

Photo: Adrian Powter

WE ARE POETS presents a moving and radical documentary of youth, art and freedom of expression, as a remarkable team of six British teenagers are chosen to represent the UK at Brave New Voices: the most prestigious Poetry Slam competition in the world. From their inner-city lives on the red bricked backstreets of Northern England, to a stage in front of the White House in Washington DC, the young poets explosively lay bare the concerns of a generation as they take on the world and prepare for a transformational and emotional journey of a lifetime. “Unforgettable…a perfect, honest combination of art and real-life. You have to see this.” The Guardian Saturday 2 November, 18.00 Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building £6/4 PIBF Friend and concession Ticket Code A, PF

Simon Ible, Conductor and Adrian Powter, Baritone. Vaughan Williams

Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

Vaughan Williams

Five of the Songs of Travel

Eduardo R Miranda Milonga for Strings in A minor premiere Tchaikovsky

Serenade for Strings

Lush and pastoral, Vaughan Williams Fantasia is as quintessentially English as Tchaikovsky’s passionate and romantic Serenade is evocatively Russian. The programme also draws on Vaughan Williams passion for song and introduces a new short work, Milonga by Eduardo Miranda. Saturday 2 November, 19.30 The Minster Church of St Andrew, Royal Parade, Plymouth Tickets: £17, £15 Friends of Peninsula Arts & Ten Tors Orchestra, £5 students & children, SPiA

SATURday 2 NOVEMber

Dizraeli

Ben Okri

Live & Loud 2

Modern Griot

Rapper, writer, poet and singer, Dizraeli is a hip hop tour de force.

Storytellers are keepers of our history, commentators on our present and seers for our future. In this session the internationally acclaimed Ben Okri OBE, winner of the Booker Prize for Fiction for his novel The Famished Road and one of the world’s best story tellers, reflects on his work and the challenges facing story tellers in the 21st Century.

Tackling politics, love, rain, supermarkets, grief, drug culture and masculinity with a sense of humour and directness that can sometimes make you wince, Dizraeli is the BBC Radio 4 Poetry Slam winner and the 2006/7 Farrago UK Slam Poetry Champion. He has also authored hip hop play The Rebel Cell, co-written with Baba Brinkman which won Spirit Of The Fringe award and rave reviews at the Edinburgh Festival. Join Dizraeli at the Plymouth International Book Festival for an evening of entrancing spoken word performance. Saturday 2 November, 20.00 Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building £6/4 PIBF Friend and concession Ticket Code A, PF

Poet and novelist Ben Okri was born in Minna, northern Nigeria, to an Igbo mother and Urhobo father and is now considered one of Africa’s leading writers. Much of his early fiction explores the political violence that he witnessed first-hand during the civil war in Nigeria. He left the country when a grant from the Nigerian government enabled him to read Comparative Literature at Essex University in England. Saturday 2 November, 20.00 Theatre 1, Roland Levinsky Building £8/£6 PIBF Friend and concession Ticket Code A, PF

Sunday 3 NOVEMber

PABDMOUTH

The War In Plymouth: Destruction And A New Beginning

Daniel Wilkinson, Fiona Sarison and Lucy Woodhouse Kayleigh Milden

Word smiths, book lovers and zine enthusiasts, join us for P A B D M O U T H on Sunday 3 November, an independent publishing fair hosted by Nom de Strip in collaboration with Publish and Be Damned. P A B D M O U T H is a fun, relaxed and friendly affair bringing together some of the best independent publishing projects from the South West and further afield for a day of talks, films and stalls. Participants include: X Marks the Bokship, ANDPublishing, An Endless Supply, Maria Fusco, The Modern Language Experiment, Library of Independent Exchange, Preston Is My Paris, Duplicate Editions, OFF LIFE Publish and Be Damned is an ongoing project for discussing and promoting alternative directions in publishing outside of the mainstream. Publish & Be Damned is currently run by Kit Hammonds (Royal College of Art), Kate Phillimore (Creative Intelligence Agency) and Louise Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Hare. The annual Publish and Be Damned Zine Fair is currently hosted at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London.

Plymouth was severely damaged by the Blitz during the Second World War, with almost 5000 homes destroyed and many lives lost. Following the war the city underwent one of the most dynamic reconstruction efforts in the country, with over 15000 new homes built and brand new neighbourhoods such as Efford and Southway created to house homeless Plymouth residents. Historian Kayleigh Milden will discuss The War in Plymouth: Destruction And A New Beginning, a history project led by Plymouth publishing social enterprise The Word Machine with Plymouth Universityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s History Department, which has interviewed Plymouth citizens who can remember the war and the years of social rehousing. A chance to hear some of the early findings from this fascinating social history project with an exhibition of photographs produced by Plymouth photography social enterprise, FotoNow. Sunday 3 November, 18.00 RLB 210, Roland Levinsky Building Free

www.publishandbedamned.org/ Sunday 3 November, 11.00 Plymouth Arts Centre

monday 4 NOVEMber

Short Fiction Launch

Flash Fiction Slam

Anthony Caleshu

Plymouth Athenaeum Writers’ GROUP

Join Editors, Anthony Caleshu and Tom Vowler, for the launch of the seventh issue of ‘the visual literary journal’ Short FICTION. Showcasing the best new fiction from around the world alongside bespoke illustration, the journal has established itself as a unique and dedicated space for the marriage of text and image. Anthony and Tom will be reading from some of their favourite selections in the new issue, as well as discussing the ‘editing’ that goes on behind the scenes.

Plymouth Athenaeum Writers’ Group will be staging an open Flash Fiction Slam competition. Free to enter and attend, with great prizes on offer, you can take part in one of the most challenging and rewarding writing competitions: create a complete story in 300 words or less.

Anthony Caleshu is Professor of Poetry at Plymouth University and the author of a novella and two books of poetry, most recently, Of Whales: in Print, in Paint, in Sea, in Stars, in Coin, in House, in Margins (a ‘book of the year’, in the Daily Telegraph, 2010). New work from his manuscript in progress, The Victor Poems, have won the Boston Review Poetry Prize (2010), and recently appeared in Narrative (www.narrativemagazine.com). Tom Vowler, Associate Lecturer in English and Creative Writing at Plymouth University, is the author of the short story collection, The Method, which won the international Scott Prize in 2010 and the Edge Hill Readers’ Award in 2011. His first novel, What Lies Within, was published in the Spring 2013, by Headline. Monday 4 November, 18.00 Theatre 2, Roland Levinsky Building Free

Simply turn up on the night and write! Winners will be announced on the night. As Stephen King says: “You can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.” Monday 4 November, 19.15 Plymouth Athenaeum, Derry’s Cross, Plymouth, PL1 2SW Free. For more information about the competition or Plymouth Athenaeum Writers’ Group telephone 07941 826181 or email athenaeumwriters@gmail.com

Christians, Muslims & Jesus by Mona Siddiqui

Architects of Our Republic: The Poetry Films

Mona Siddiqui

Vanessa Kisuule, Mama Tokus and very special guest!

Prophet or messiah, the figure of Jesus serves as both the bridge and the barrier between Christianity and Islam. Join the author for a discussion around her accessible and thoughtful book, Christians, Muslims & Jesus, in which Muslim scholar and popular commentator Mona Siddiqui takes her reader on a personal, theological journey exploring the centrality of Jesus in Christian Muslim relations, concluding with Mona’s own reflections on the cross and its possible meaning in her Muslim faith.

Poetry films: AJ McKenna, Conrad Kira, Vanessa Kisuule, Rik Sykes and Deborah Stevenson.

Mona Siddiqui joined the University of Edinburgh’s Divinity school in December 2011 as the first Muslim chair in Islamic and Interreligious Studies. Prior to this she was Professor of Islamic Studies at Glasgow University for 15 years where she directed the Centre for the Study of Islam. Her research areas are primarily in the field of Islamic jurisprudence and Christian-Muslim relations “It is in itself a significant work of inter-faith understanding….” Stuart Kelly, Scotland on Sunday Monday 4 November, 20.00 Theatre 1, Roland Levinsky Building £8/6 PIBF Friend and concession Ticket Code A, PF

A Forked Special A night of new generation poetry films and live performance poetry, celebrating the 50th anniversary of the historic March on Washington and Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I have a dream’ speech. Join film-makers and spoken word artists as they interrogate the power of speech in this exciting South West showcase. Bringing together a multitude of voices to challenge, debate, tell personal and political stories and explore the power of speech to create social change, this is a date with history not to be missed. Be part of the celebrations and share in the dream. The B-Bar will be serving their delicious signature Thai food until 21:00, so grab a noodle box, find a seat and enjoy the show. www.applesandsnakes.org Join Apples and Snakes on Facebook: https://www. facebook.com/groups/applesandsnakessouthwest Monday 4 November, 20.00 B-Bar, Barbican Theatre, Plymouth, PL1 2NJ £5 in advance from B-Bar: 01752 242021 or http:// www.wegottickets.com/event/231173 £7 on door

tuesday 5 NOVEMber

Telling Tales

The Universe Versus Alex Woods

Comic Book Creation

Gavin Extence

Watch the magic of illustrators at work as they take inspiration from the eclectic collection of objects on display at the Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery.

Gavin Extence joins us to talk about his acclaimed debut novel, The Universe Versus Alex Woods.

Alex hasn’t had the most conventional start in life. He knows that growing up with a clairvoyant mother won’t endear him to the local bullies. And he knows The professional and student illustrators from that even the most improbable events can happen – Plymouth University will create compelling stories he’s got the scars to prove it. What he doesn’t know through their illustrations about objects they find yet is that when he meets ill-tempered, reclusive in the collection. This will be a unique opportunity widower Mr Peterson, he’ll make an unlikely friend. to witness the process of illustrations moving from imaginative concepts through to the final impressive Someone who tells him that you only get one shot at life. That you have to make the best possible artwork. choices. Visit the Museum for the chance to talk to the So when, aged seventeen, Alex is stopped at Dover talented illustrators as they work tirelessly for 24 customs with 113 grams of marijuana, an urn full of hours over two days between 9.00 and 21:00. ashes on the passenger seat, and an entire nation in Tuesday 5 November, 9.00 – 21.00 (last entry 20.00 ) uproar, he’s fairly sure he’s done the right thing… Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery “This funny, touching first novel . . . Extence unfolds Free his offbeat tale with skill but his real triumph lies in providing such a memorable voice” Sunday Times Tuesday 5 November, 14.00 Plymouth Central Library Free

Lit Festival Special Open Mic Night

A night of poetry, prose and performance! Read! Recite! Tread the boards of the Plymouth Social Club! This is a night for you to share your work, or work that inspires you, with an audience. A venue for experienced practitioners to perform and present alongside those who are just beginning to explore their craft. Come along and join the relaxed and social environment, leading to discussion, collaboration and a widening literary and artistic community in Plymouth and the South West. There is a bar on site to promote courage and conviviality. Tuesday 5 November, 19.00 Plymouth Social Club ÂŁ1 on the door

wednesday 6 NOVEMber

Telling Tales

Plymouth Anthology of Young People’s Writing

Comic Book Creation

Watch the magic of illustrators at work as they take inspiration from the eclectic collection of objects on display at the Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery. The professional and student illustrators from Plymouth University will create compelling stories through their illustrations about objects they find in the collection, this will be a unique opportunity to witness the process of illustrations moving from imaginative concepts through to the final impressive artwork. Visit the Museum for the chance to talk to the talented illustrators as they work tirelessly for 24 hours over two days between 9.00 and 21:00. Wednesday 6 November, 09.00 – 21.00 (last entry 20.00) Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Drake Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AJ Free

Plymouth International Book Festival are proud to support this year’s Plymouth Anthology of Young People’s Writing. The Council has searched for talented young authors as part of this year’s citywide writing competition. Writers aged up to 19 were asked to put pen to paper and submit pieces of written work to Plymouth City Council’s annual Anthology competition. This year’s theme Past, Present and Future… our cultural heritage, historical standing, everyday life, City people or twenty first century vision. Guest speaker the wonderful Sally Crabtree will be on hand providing entertainment for all. Wednesday 6 November, 16.30 Plymouth Guildhall, Guildhall Square Free

Setting the scene

Plymouth Language Club Presents

Tom Vowler and Michael Jecks

Norman Jope, Kenny Knight, and Steve Spence

Within a novel the landscape shapes the reader’s emotions and can complement or contradict the story. How do writers work with this extra character in a novel?

Join local poets Normal Jope, Kenny Knight and Steve Spence for an evening of live poetry reading.

Writers, Tom Vowler and Michael Jecks discuss how they use the landscape, and in particular, the Devon landscape, in their novels. Tom Vowler’s short story collection, The Method, won the international Scott Prize in 2010 and the Edge Hill Readers’ Award in 2011. Set on Dartmoor, his debut novel What Lies Within was published in April 2013. Michael Jecks is the author of thirty-two novels in his Templar series, all published by Headline and Simon & Schuster. Founder of the Historical Writers’ Association and Medieval Murderers, a performance group of historically fanatical crime writers, he lives on Dartmoor with his family, where he gains his inspiration from the landscape and legends of the moors. Wednesday 6 November, 18.00 Theatre 2, Roland Levinsky Building £6/4 PIBF Friend and concession Ticket Code A, PF

Norman Jope has published For the Wedding Guest (Stride, 1997), The Book of Bells and Candles (Waterloo Press, 2009), Dreams of the Caucasus (Shearsman Books, 2010) and Aphinar (Waterloo Press, 2012) and his poetry has appeared in many magazines and webzines across the world. He is also one of the organisers of The Language Club, a long-established live poetry collective based in Plymouth.

Kenny Knight’s first collection of poetry, The Honicknowle Book of the Dead, was published by Shearsman Books in 2009 and deals with his youth and childhood in Plymouth from the skewed and hilarious summit of an adult perspective. Steve Spence, author of A Curious Shipwreck , shortlisted for the Forward Prize best first collection, has had a long-term involvement with poetry but only really started writing his own in the mid nineties when he became involved with The Poetry Exchange, a group based at Plymouth Arts Centre. Wednesday 6 November, 18.30 Waterstones, Drake Circus Free

Thursday 7 NOVEMber

Cog Talk: “It’s (not) fair!”: The fluidity of fairness in an (un)just world John Bird and Dr Michaela Gummerum. Chaired by Michael Hyland

In this month’s CogTalk, John Bird MBE and Dr Michaela Gummerum will discuss fairness and how it is shaped both by biology and society. They will ask who decides what is a “fair share” and who’s entitled to it? Do all people have a similar understanding of fairness and how fluid is that notion? And how, in this so-called “age of austerity” can we maintain our sense of fairness and justice for all. John Bird, was brought up in an orphanage and served time in a young offenders institution before he was out of his teens. During the turbulent times of a difficult youth he often slept rough with London’s homeless.

Michaela Gummerum is a lecturer in developmental psychology at Plymouth University. She investigates how children develop a sense of fairness and morality from a cross-cultural perspective. Michael Hyland was appointed Professor of Health Psychology at Plymouth University in 1996, having been awarded a PhD in psychology in 1976. He is the author of three textbooks and two books on research, and more than 130 papers in medical and psychology journals. He believes in the principle that education should be enjoyed, and designs his lectures and teaching material to entertain and inform.

John harnessed his knowledge of the print industry Thursday 7 November, 18.00 with a social vision which led to the foundation of the Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building now world-famous Big Issue, sold by the homeless Free Ticket Code C and vulnerably housed with publisher and vendor splitting the proceeds of each sale. Although strictly non-political, John has been consulted by both Labour and Coalition governments on how best to lift people out of poverty through harnessing their own energies.

House of Small Shadows Adam Nevill

Adam Nevill has been a devotee of the supernatural in fiction since his father read him M R James at bedtime. As well as The Ritual and Apartment 16, Adam is the author of the occult thriller Banquet of the Damned. He joins us to talk about his latest book, House of Small Shadows. When the late M. H. Mason’s elderly niece invites Catherine to stay at Red House to catalogue his wildly eccentric collection of antique dolls and puppets, she can’t believe her luck. Until his niece exposes her to the dark message behind her uncle’s “art”. M. H. Mason’s damaged visions raise dark shadows from her own past. Soon the barriers between reality, sanity and memory start to merge. And some truths seem too terrible to be real... “Nevill presents us with nightmare image after nightmare image, and sells his horrors with admirable clarity and simplicity . . . a first-rate literary bogeyman” – SFX Thursday 7 November, 18.30 Waterstones, Drake Circus Shopping Centre £6/£4 PIBF Friend and concession Ticket Code A, PF

Friday 8 NOVEMber

Keep it in the Family

Linton Kwesi Johnson

Vicki Feaver & Jane Feaver

Live & Loud 3

When mother and daughter are both successful writers what are family gatherings like? Join us as we discuss with poet Vicki Feaver and author Jane Feaver, their personal and shared experiences of their careers and how it has affected family relationships. Vicki is author of the award-winning Close Relatives; The Handless Maiden and The Book of Blood and Jane’s According to Ruth was shortlisted for the Authors’ Club Best First Novel Award and the Dimplex Prize.

Join world-renowned poet and recording artist Linton Kwesi Johnson for an hour of his remarkable poetry, followed by a Q & A with the audience.

“Vicki Feaver’s poems resonate with truth and raw emotion... Whether she is writing about ironing, childhood, periods or love, her wry humour and sensuous style make familiar subject matter seem fresh and new” - Kate Figes, Cosmopolitan “Jane Feaver has proved an expert at creating a sense of place ... tender, imaginative prose” Sunday Herald Friday 8 November, 18.00 Theatre 2, Roland Levinsky Building £6/4 PIBF Friend and concession Ticket Code A, PF

Author of Voices of the Living and the Dead, Dread, Beat An’ Blood and Tings An’ Times: Selected Poems, Johnson’s poetry is mostly political, dealing with the experiences of black, working class life in Britain. In 2002 he became the second living poet, and the only black poet to be published in the Penguin Modern Classics series. In 2005 Linton was awarded a silver Musgrave medal from the Institute of Jamaica for distinguished eminence in the field of poetry. “His poetry is meant to recoup lost structures, identities, pure “rhythm and roots”, poetry integrating audience and performer in one collective voice” Cyril Dabydeen, World Literature Today Friday 8 November, 20.00 Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building £8/6 PIBF Friend and concession Ticket Code A, PF

Saturday 9 NOVEMber

Writing Society Suzi Feay, Helen Dunmore. Chaired by Min Wild

Exploring the work of novelists such as Jane Austen, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, and the Bronte sisters, this lively panel discussion will address issues surrounding women as writers and social commentators. Considering how these women changed the literary landscape of the time and continue to influence writers today, this promises to be both an entertaining discussion, and a celebration of some truly inspiring writers. Originally from Bolton, Lancashire, Suzi Feay now lives in London and reports on a wide range of literary and cultural topics in the UK media. She was literary editor of the Independent on Sunday for 11 years, and has judged many literary prizes, including the Impac, the Whitbread Novel Award, The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, The John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the National Poetry Competition. Suzi is on the advisory committee for the new Literary Prize in the UK. A member of the Authors Club, she is also the chair of its annual Best First Novel Award.

She writes reviews for The Times and The Observer, contributes to arts programmes on BBC Radio and has been a judge for the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Book of the Year award. She is Patron of festival partner, Literature Works, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Min Wild has had more than one working life – first, as a storytelling library assistant, and later, as a lecturer in English at Plymouth University. She has published academic books and articles on eighteenth-century literature including Christopher Smart and Satire (2008). She has also worked in the field of early twentieth-century high Modernism. She has reviewed widely, both for the academic world and for the Independent on Sunday and the Times Literary Supplement, and she runs reading groups and presents papers at conferences. She likes the excitement of literary seminars, where meaning gets made by a gathering of minds, and she also likes Roses Lime Marmalade, and playing the saxophone.

Helen Dunmore is an award winning writer of Saturday 9 November, 14.00 poetry, novels and children’s novels. She is a teacher Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery of Poetry and Creative Writing, tutoring residential £6/4 PIBF Friend and concession Ticket Code A, PF writing courses for the Arvon Foundation and taking part in the Poetry Society’s Writer in Schools scheme. She has also taught at the University of Glamorgan, the University of Bristol’s Continuing Education Department and for the Open College of the Arts.

saturday 9 NOVEMber

Illustrating Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

Novel Writing Workshop

Annika Bautz

Christopher Wakling

A must for fans of Pride and Prejudice, this talk examines the beautifully detailed character illustrations in John Dicks’ 1887 edition of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and looks at how they tell us much about how Austen’s novel was read in the late 19th century when there was a huge rise in demand for affordable books.

Acclaimed novelist and writing tutor Christopher Wakling will provide expert advice for those working on a novel.

Readers would sometimes have to wait for decades for an affordable edition of a book to be released following the first expensive edition which only the rich, upper-classes could afford. Dr Annika Bautz, author of The Reception of Jane Austen and Walter Scott: A Comparative Longitudinal Study and Reader’s Guide to Essential Criticism of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice, Emma and Sense and Sensibility, and a Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Plymouth University, researches Romantic and Victorian fiction and is an expert on the history of the book. Saturday 9 November, 13.00 Plymouth City Museum & Art Gallery £4 Ticket Code A

Christopher is one of the leading tutors of creative writing at the Arvon Foundation. He is the Royal Literary Fund Fellow for Writing at The University of Bristol. Christopher Wakling’s six acclaimed novels include What I Did, The Devil’s Mask , and On Cape Three Points. Born in 1970, he read English at Oxford, then worked as a farm hand, teacher and lawyer, before turning to writing full time in 2001. As well as writing fiction, Christopher is a travel writer for The Independent. He is also the Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Bristol University and has tutored many creative writing courses for The Arvon Foundation, The Faber Academy, and Curtis Brown Creative. Saturday 9 November, 14.00 Plymouth Central Library £12/10 PIBF Friend and concession Ticket Code A, PF

What I Did

Poemetrics

Christopher Wakling

Poetry Animations

Christopher Wakling, acclaimed author and travel writer for The Independent, joins readers to talk about his most recent novel.

An entertaining evening of short films looking at a range of expressive moving image work inspired by poetry. Be inspired by a visual investigation of words in poetic motion which enrich meaning and enhance your understanding.

What I Did is the chronicle of a family crisis that is in equal parts hilarious, poignant, and horrifying, told in the singular voice of a most precocious youngster. The programme is both surprising and beautiful featuring artists such as David Alexander Anderson, “the novel that should have won the Booker prize.” Adam Long, Lesley Barnes, Andy Martin, Matt London Daily Mail Lambert, Tony Comley, Alex Weil, Salomon, Crush, Michael Fragstein, Mark Nute, Daniel Boyle, Mario Saturday 9 November, 17.00 Pietro Brioschi, Scott Wenner, Jaeho Hwang, Plymouth Central Library Jonathan Chong, Jac Min, David Viau, Julian Grey, Free Diego Maclean and Seiichi Hishikawa. Poemetrics is specially curated by onedotzero and produced in partnership with EMPAC (Experimental Media and Performing Arts Centre). Saturday 9 November, 19.00 Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Builing £6/4 PIBF Friend and concession Ticket Code A, PF

saturday 9 NOVEMber

Inua Ellams Live & loud 4

A truly imaginative and stylish voice on the spoken word scene, Inua Ellams is an accomplished writer and performer. As a poet, performer, playwright and graphic artist he provides a perfect fusion of lyricism and performance. Author of the best-selling poetry pamphlet, Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales, Inua has worked in venues which include Queen Elizabeth Hall, Tate Britain, Theatre Royal Stratford and Glastonbury Festival. He has also undertaken several commissions, including those for Tate Modern, Soho Theatre and for the BBC’s Politics Show. “Ellams presents haunting, lyrical, visual poems that take you to another place…” Exeunt Saturday 9 November, 20.00 Jill Craigie Cinema, Roland Levinsky Building £6/4 PIBF Friend and concession Ticket Code A, PF

Plymouth University

One of the founding partners of the Plymouth International Book Festival, Plymouth University plays a key role in advancing the cultural aspirations of the city and the whole South West. Through its innovative partnership approach, the University has been instrumental in the staging of successful events with a national and international profile, such as the British Art Show 7 and the America’s Cup. Consistently ranked as one of the leading universities in the UK, and awarded a Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education in 2012, Plymouth University has a strong record of excellence, enterprise and innovation across its teaching and research activities. Distinguished by its long-term engagement with business and the community, the University enjoys outstanding links with employers and plays a key role in civic and regional leadership. It is the only university in the world to have been awarded the Social Enterprise Mark in recognition of its work in support of the sector.

Peninsula Arts Open to the public, all year round, we have the largest contemporary art gallery in Plymouth and host exciting exhibitions from internationally renowned artists.

With around 30,000 students, including those studying higher education at its partner colleges throughout the South West, Plymouth University is one of largest in the UK. It enjoys a high rate of graduate employment and has invested more than £300 million in its estate and facilities to enhance the student experience and support world-class research.

Find us on the ground floor of the iconic Roland Levinsky Building, Plymouth University, Drake Circus. Visit our website to see the full programme of events and to book tickets www.peninsula-arts.co.uk

Through our diverse programme of films, talks, performances and music we provide access to wide-ranging, high quality arts and cultural experiences, influenced by the expertise, research and scholarship of the University and its partners, to the communities of Plymouth and the South West and visitors to the region.

Plymouth has embedded sustainability across its operations, and is the overall best performing university in the People & Planet Green League. It is the first modern university to found a medical and dental school – the Plymouth University Peninsula Schools of Medicine and Dentistry – and is the leading provider of Higher Education in Cornwall.

Literature Works

Please help us to raise money to change lives through literature. As a founding partner of the Plymouth International Book Festival, Literature Works is a registered charity which raises funds to enable everyone to enjoy the benefits of creative writing and reading. Through our Grassroots Literature Fund we support activities with young people and adults in schools, libraries, community groups, reading and writing groups and anyone who wants to get engaged with reading and writing in ways that make a huge and positive difference. Whether you stage a fundraising event, nominate us as your chosen charity for an existing sponsored event, your help will ensure thousands of local people of all ages continue to discover, enjoy and benefit from reading and writing. If you can help, please donate by; • Donate through our website • DONATE BY TEXT: Text 648484 BOOK22 followed by the amount you would like to donate eg BOOK2210 would make a donation of £10. For more information about our work, or to receive our fundraising pack please see www.literatureworks.org.uk or email us at info@literatureworks.org.uk