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The Humber Mouth Press Release
By Nick Boldock
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Another year, another Humber Mouth. Only this year, the Hull Literature Festival has an added flicker of brilliance in its calm night sky. The Renegade Writers bring their celebrated event - The Remedy - to the Humber Mouth for the first time, for its biggest and best incarnation yet.
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The venue, as for previous Remedy events, is the upstairs room of The George, Land Of Green Ginger (opposite "Courts" bar, at the bottom of Whitefriargate in the City Centre). There is no entry fee (because we love you all). All you need to do is negotiate the stairs and you're in. Kick-off is at 7 o'clock.
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The Remedy is a unique mix of poetry, comedy and music. Poetry will be supplied by your hosts, the Renegade Writers - expect an irreverent blend of the personal and the political, the sacred and the profane, with some of Hull's most talented and original performers… The Remedy is no sit-down poetry dirge - this is rock 'n' roll writing with no boundaries… we can't push the envelope, because someone set it on fire…
In between the Renegade poetry will be live music from special guest, the very talented and justifiably acclaimed Emma Rugg, along with regular Remedy headliners Cracktown, plus support from singer/songwriters OB-1 and Pete Coulam. Yep… it's a full schedule…
Previous nights have led to "standing-room only" so you are urged to arrive early. And heckle at your peril…
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Warning: This event will almost certainly contain some strong language.
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Previews - Three Come at Once, Just like Buses...
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By Maggie Hannan
Hull in Fiction: Christopher Peachment & Will Davenport
Following on from the Crap Towns debacle, my interest was caught by the fact that no fewer than three novelists have set novels in Hull in the past eighteen months. Just like buses, you wait for ages and then three come along at once.
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Previews - Wild Boys and Wild Ways: Jill Dawson
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By Maggie Hannan
The MMR vaccination controversy ensures that few people are unfamiliar with the plight of those affected by autism and their search for answers. Jill Dawson, who visits the Humber Mouth this Saturday, knows better than most about the challenges involved. As the mother of a son diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome, she was inspired to write her latest novel Wild Boy after reading an account of a 'feral child' in Uta Frith's Autism: Explaining the Enigma.
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Previews - Doctor in the House? Russell T. Davies
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By Maggie Hannan
'I grew up watching Doctor Who, hiding behind the sofa like so many others. He's had a good rest and now it's time to bring him back. The new series will be fun, exciting, contemporary and scary...' So says Russell T. Davies, famous for the controversial Queer as Folk, and Second Coming starring Christopher Ecclestone.
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Previews - Michael Gray: Bob Dylan poetry of the Blues
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By Lee Cassanell
On Saturday morning I had the pleasure of interviewing Michael Gray, one of the world's leading Bob Dylan Experts.
It was quite an exciting moment for me, being a Dylan fan and all, and I suppose if I'd not had the mother of all hangovers due to the previous evenings merriment, I would have been more nervous then I was.
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Poetry - For those who lay dying.
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by Lee Cassanell
Sign me up
I'm off to war
I want to kill and fight
Please drop me on that desert floor
Let me join the side of right
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Poetry Is This Place Freedom?
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By Nicholas Boldock
The roads stretch out ahead of me
To which town will they lead?
And will there be a lady there
With dark brown eyes and long blonde hair
Who'll let me love her if I dare
Own up to what I need.
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