Books & Spoken Word
Tim Dee – Landfill launch
- Artists
- Tim Dee, Tessa Hadley, Holly Corfield Carr
Caught by the River and Little Toller celebrate the publication of Tim Dee’s Landfill – a groundbreaking new book from the author of The Running Sky and Four Fields. Landfill confronts our waste-making species through the extraordinary and fascinating life of gulls, and the people who watch them. The event will feature:
– a reading from Landfill from Tim Dee;
– a rare appearance from Turner Prize-winning landscape artist Richard Long, who will be interviewed by Tim;
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– a talk on gulls from writer, naturalist and conservationist Mark Cocker;
– poetry from Holly Corfield Carr, Jack Thacker and Paul Farley;
– a talk from artist, Bristolian, and Landfill illustrator Greg Poole;
– a talk from the celebrated writer, Tessa Hadley, who is also one of the dedicatees of Landfill.
Caught By The River will ensure a fully stocked bar and bookshop, and great tunes ’til close.
Tickets cost £15 in advance, and are available online (with a small booking fee), in person from the Letterpress Collective Studio at the Centrespace Gallery, or over the counter at Friendly Records, 59-61 North St, Bristol, BS3 1ES.