If we had been judging they would have won the Forward Prize, from the Humber River to the the Orkney Isles they would have heard the name Harry Giles. The first poem from this curious performer is about borders, the line goes ‘wear a red dress, paint your eyebrows green,’ and the audience embrace a […]
22 years later the fascination remains over the kiss that melted Channel 4 switchboards, but as the audience find out tonight – and dedicated Brookside fans will already know – it wasn’t the first gay kiss in the soap. The sensationalism surrounding Beth and Margaret’s relationship, was due to media hype insists Phil Redmond, addressing […]
For the final literature festival event of this year’s Humber Mouth we welcomed music impresario Alan McGee and publisher James Brown to Pave in Hull. It had been the best-selling ticket, from the minute the press went out, so once again Pave was packing them in. Alan McGee is famed to have helped change the […]
‘Live by the pen… die by the pen’… ‘Publish and be damned,’ and other writerly maxims. Rosie Millard is best known as a journalist, broadcaster and more recently as the Chair for Hull City of Culture Company which she describes as a huge honour. ‘A wonderful, astonishing moment, I nearly fell over when they asked […]
‘I did Top of the Pops on acid,’ announces Teardrop Explodes front-man Julian Cope to a packed room inside Pave at the penultimate event of this year’s Humber Mouth. Julian Cope was part of a trio of artists known as ‘the crucial three‘, the other two being Ian McCulloch (Echo and the Bunnymen) and Pete […]
Writing and performing poetry for fifty years, responsible for re-igniting the public passion for verse in Britain, Roger McGough and Brian Patten are two poets held in the highest esteem by fellow poets and literature fans alike. The Mersey Sound Penguin Modern Poets 10 which they, along with Adrian Henri, wrote in 1967, made poetry […]
