Thanks to support from Marsden’s brilliant local charity, the Cuckoo’s Nest, we’re excited to announce we can bring a whole programme of author events to Marsden this year. Dates for your diary below, and further info will be published here and on facebook when bookings open.
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February 22nd, The Dogs, poems by Michael Stewart
Returning to Marsden, this time Michael will be reading from ‘The Dogs’, poems about ‘Man’s best friends’.
Well-behaved dogs are welcome too.
Doors: 7.00
Event: 7.30 – 8.30
Main Hall, Marsden Mechanics
Bar
FREE – booking required:
March 7th, International Women’s Day (new date, changed from 8th)
Watch this space
April 28th Naturalist and Writer Amy Jane Beer
Our 2024 collaboration with Huddersfield Literature Festival will see us welcoming writer and naturalist Amy Jane Beer to the Mechanics Hall. Amy’s book ‘The Flow’ was the winner of the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing in 2023.
Doors: 2.00
Event: 2.30 – 3.30
Main Hall, Marsden Mechanics
Bar plus Tea/Coffee
Book signing and sales: until 4.00/4.30
May 23rd , Graphic Artist Polyp
Doors: 7.00
Event: 7.30 – 8.30
Marsden Library
Bottle Bar selling wine, beer, soft drinks
Polyp will be bringing his latest work on the Luddites, Peterloo and Chartists.
June 27th, Amanda Huggins – NEW DATE
Doors: 7.00
Event: 7.30 – 8.30
Marsden Library
Bottle Bar selling wine, beer, soft drinks
Each of Us a Petal
Award-winning author Amanda Huggins will share here new collection of short fiction, taking us on a journey through Japan, from the hustle of city bars to the silence of snow country. The people, culture and complex social mores of this beguiling country have inspired Huggins’ writing ever since she first visited Japan almost twenty years ago.
Whether they are Japanese nationals or foreign tourists, temporary residents or those recalling their time in Japan from a distance, the men and women in these stories are often adrift and searching for a connection. Many are estranged from their normal lives, navigating the unfamiliar while trying to make sense of the human condition, or find themselves restrained by the formalities of traditional culture as they struggle to forge new relationships outside those boundaries. Others are forced to question their perceptions when they find themselves drawn into an unsettling world of shapeshifting deities and the ghosts of the past.
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