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Kate Fox on Lara King's Morning Show BBC Humberside 95.9FM, 1485AM, DAB & Online 9am - 10am Listen in to Lara's Morning Show to hear Kate Fox spin the news in verse. Kate has been described as a 'younger, wittier, hipper Pam Ayres' and she starts her stint at the Humber Mouth by tackling the top news stories of the day. Kate Fox's Poetry Drop-In BBC Humberside, Queen's Gardens Wednesday 24th June

12.30 - 2.30pm Thursday 25th June 11am - 1pm FREE Do you have anything to say about recent news? Have a go at writing your views about the news - in verse - and drop in to chat to Kate Fox about how hone your satirical edge. Kate will be in the Coffee Bar at the BBC Centre on Wednesday and Thursday to give expert advice about poetry, performance and politics. Thursday 25th June Kate Fox 8pm Zest Cafe Bar, 17 - 19 Newland Avenue £5 Box Office 01482 226655 Poetry which matters from one of the country's funniest, sharpest and most irreverent performers. Kate Fox is a stand-up comedian, poet and journalist. She has been a Poet in Residence on R4's Saturday Live for a year, writing topical poems and performing them for 2 million listeners once a month. She has performed stand up comedy and poetry gigs all over the world. This Northern, occasionally ukulele-playing wordsmith has been commissioned by the Humber Mouth to bring her anarchic, hilarious and satirical verse to the people of Hull! 'One day Pam Ayres will be saying she's like Kate Fox' Fi Glover, Radio 4 Kate Fox's Festival blog: www.poetryasithappens.wordpress.com

Dan Waddell: Who Do You Think You Are? Central Library 12.30pm FREE If you enjoyed the hit TV series Who Do You Think You Are? and are curious to know how to uncover the secrets in your family tree, meet the author Dan Waddell, expert in genealogy and top crime writer. Dan uses his expertise in family history to inform his crime fiction, adding a new twist to the genre and allowing the skeletons to come tumbling out of the closet.

Dan talks about his own experience of uncovering the secrets of his family's past and how that led him to realise that genealogy is not the dry and fusty act of pure research which some think it is, but a living story of ancestors who were just as flawed and complicated as we are. Dan Waddell is a journalist and author who lives in west London. He has published ten non-fiction books, including the bestselling Who Do You Think You Are: Discovering the Heroes and Villains in Your Family and crime novels The Blood Detective and Blood Atonement.

Being Hird Central Library, Albion Street 7pm FREE Tonight one of the area's smallest publishers is given a voice. Hird Instinct recreate their knockout performance of stories from Turn a Different Corner. In addition, Blue Nails, a new collection of poetry by Liz Cook, is launched.

The stories in Turn a Different Corner are an eclectic mix of flash fiction in which there is one essential element Ð change. In these stories everything you ever knew about history, literature and science is turned on its head. What if you'd turned a different corner? Each of these stories, exactly 50 words in length, questions our belief in a determinate world, but most of all, they are inventive and humorous. Sandwiched somewhere in the middle of this performance there will be an interlude of readings from Hird Publications' latest book Blue Nails, a collection of poems by Liz Cook. These poems are reflective, thoughtful, provocative, occasionally funny, and always entertaining. Hird Publications was created by students of creative writing at the University of Hull under the tutorship of Nora Jones, in order to bring their work to a wider readership. Blue Nails is the 4th volume, following on from Liquorice Ice Cream, Postcards to Aunty Mag, and Turn a Different Corner.

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Reviews, Arts - Adrian Johnson: All Wound Up - Red Gallery exhibition, March-April 2009 By Philip Wincolmlee-Barnes
	I am currently re-reading John Carey's The Intellectuals and The Masses, a fascinating (and sometimes troubling) survey of how the former regarded the latter from the late 19th Century until the 1930's. He charts a course via Nietzsche's theories of 'the Superman vs. the common people' (guess his preference Read more...

Reviews, Theatre - Write to Speak at Hull Truck - Wednesday 27th May 09 By Mark Walmsley
	Having found the thisisUll website by accident while looking for an outlet for my hobby and passion, Writing, I was welcomed by Cilla after an initial contact who took a page of my work I submitted and pasted it on the World Wide Web as seen, titled as The Right Hand of God. In addition to this, she asked me if I would be interested in attending the Write to Speak gig at the Hull Truck on Wednesday 27th May. Read more...

Reviews, Theatre - Funny Turns and the Opening of The New Hull Truck Theatre By Gary Clark
	I was fortunate enough to get an invite to the opening gala night of the very impressive Hull Truck Theatre to get a first hand look at the new venue and to see the opening night of the latest John Godber play, Funny Turns. The company went to great expense to make all the invited guests welcome with vats of free champagne and a choice of wines already poured out for the 440 guests to gorge Read more...

Reviews, Films - AWAYDAYS at The Bradford Film Festival By Margaret J Shillingford
	When Carty meets Elvis at a Bunnymen gig, they fall headlong into a volatile friendship that each of them aches for but neither can control. Violent, sexy and funny, Awaydays is a blade-sharp rites-of-passage that buzzes with the post-punk energy of its late-70s Liverpool setting. Based on the classic novel by Kevin Sampson, and pulsating to a soundtrack of Joy Division, The Cure, Read more...

Reviews, Films - The Confession By Steve Rudd
	Expertly directed by Dave Kebo and Rudi Liden, The Confession is an extraordinary movie for many and varied reasons, not least because it was shot all in one take. Another major reason why the movie is so unique comes down to the fact that it is 'interactive' and features three and a half addictive hours of multi-angle footage. Having been shot via a multitude of strategically placed CCTV Read more...

Reviews, Films - Slumdog Millionaire By Ruth
	I don't go to the movies, and I don't usually enjoy love stories. My idea of a good love story is Thelma and Louise, Crash, or possibly Monster (with Charlize Theron). The darker element of humanity is what I find appealing. I went with my family to view this film and was utterly blown away. We left the cinema feeling as though we'd been slapped hard across the face and somehow enjoyed it. Read more...

Reviews, Books - The Dance of the Pheasodile by Tim Roux (Upfront Publishing) Reviewed by Nick Quantrill
	With his sixth novel, Hull native Tim Roux, is certainly one of the city's most prolific writers. A committed champion of all things East Yorkshire, the publication of his crime story, The Dance of The Pheasodile is his well deserved opportunity to take the limelight. With a fulfilling job, a successful wife and two beautiful children, Keith McGuire leads an idyllic middle-class life in the south of England. Read more...

Reviews, Books - How Not To Manage by Adam Kirkman and Daniel Mayhew (Quick Brown Fox Publications) Reviewed by Nick Quantrill
	Think you're a great manager? Think you know how to get the best out of people whilst increasing your personal performance and worth? Think again - you can be better - it's simply a matter of attitude. If this all sounds a bit too much like hard word, fear not, this new spoof management manual from York's Adam Kirkman and Daniel Mayhew is here to Read more...

Reviews, Books - What Do I Know Anyway? by Jamie Mcgarry Reviewed By Steve Rudd
	Writing poetry is a painstaking craft, and it's clear from the outset that Scarborough-based Jamie McGarry spends a lot of time in perfecting his poems. An award-winning poet at a young age, Jamie recently unleashed What Do I Know Anyway? - a wry look at life in the twenty-first century. Consisting of twenty-nine superb poems which are spread over seventy-five pages, there really is something for everybody in this, Read more...

Reviews, Films - The Wave (Germany, 2008) and Hunger (UK/Ireland, 2008): Fascism & Faeces By Philip Wincolmlee Barnes
	European cinema has a substantial post-war tradition of coming to terms with, exploring or challenging 20th Century fascism and, in particular, Germany's uneasy goose-stepping heritage, its subsequent national 'identity crisis', and its more recent spasms of political unrest. For example, the flirtatious - and some might say notorious - excesses of Night Porter (Dirk Bogarde Read more...

Reviews, Books - Mosaic by Clive Ashman Reviewed by Tim Roux
	Officially launched last September at Brough's Petuaria Centre, the town where it happened, on the 60th anniversary of the worst unsolved crime in British archaeology, Mosaic is the novel based by writer Clive Ashman on its known facts. If you have ever read Marguerite Yourcenar's The Abyss, a classic and intensely haunting reconstruction of daily life in sixteenth century Europe Read more...

Reviews, Books - The Mermaid Chair by Tony Flynn Reviewed by Tim Roux
	In 1980, Tony Flynn published A Strange Routine, a compelling map to his terrain of loss - the loss of his mother, of his wife, of his child, of his past. Twelve years later, his Body Politic came out, another outright masterpiece, this time including an extended mourning for the victims of state repression. It has been sixteen years since then, Read more...

Reviews, Arts - November 08 - All Systems Go: Red Gallery Group Show By Philip Wincolmlee-Barnes
	According to their publicity (and not counting numerous one-off live events and screenings) this is the gallery's 108th exhibition. This certainly shows my age, as I've been involved with the space in one capacity or another for over ten years now. Not that there appears to be much in the way of personal wear and tear over this time: I still get asked for ID in public houses and in off licences. Read more...

Reviews, Arts - From The Postmodern To The Pastoral: Two Recent Exhibitions in Hull By Philip Wincolmlee-Barnes PortEst Exhibition Photographs by Andrew Quinn
	PortEst (Red Gallery, Sept/Oct) was an exhibition by three Estonian artists - Jane Remm, Piret Peil and Minna Hint - in which the theme of portraiture was subjected to a variety of treatments in different media, making for a diverse and captivating presentation. Francis Bacon used to say (usually whilst somewhat addled) that he was trying to Read more...

Reviews, Arts - A Walk Through H: Some recent cultural musings around Kingston Upon Hull By Philip Wincolmlee-Barnes
	Contemporary Art: either you're 'out' or you're 'in'. Either you 'get' the somewhat jaundiced, laconically ironic stance of much of this work - you know, of how we're living in a post modern world bereft of a single 'grand narrative' - or you remain nonplussed at the often obtuse outpourings of these 'so-called artists'. And many of them don't even have proper jobs (whatever one of those might be...). Read more...

Reviews, Theatre - Johnny Comes Home at St Columbas, Drypool By Richard Axford
	It's not usual to give the ending away when writing a theatre review, but in this case you will forgive such crassness. Credo Arts Community have produced an excellent follow up to their last drama, Ruth. After a piece based around death and loyalty, this time they explore the pangs of despair surrounding family breakdown, and the various responses to resolution of the problem. Read more...

Reviews, Theatre - Tuesday 3rd June 08 - Dolly at Hull New Theatre By Steve Rudd
	A Rockman Music production, this grand old celebration of the glamourous life and times of Country legend Dolly Parton pulls out all the stops to entertain. Even on the opening night of its debut UK tour, the show drew a huge crowd of Dolly fans who were in the mood for singing and clapping along to all her best-known hits. Read more...

Reviews, Books - Here, Bullet by Brian Turner Reviewed by Michelle Dee
	Here, Bullet is as startling as it is direct. The anthology of poems written by the multi award-winning U.S. war veteran Brian Turner uncovers the landscape of the war in Iraq with unswerving honesty and importantly he writes from a non-political viewpoint. Brian Turner saw active service for seven years which included leading an Infantry Team in Iraq with the 3rd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division in November 2003. Read more...