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The Power of Place Free

Thursday 28 5.15pmMay
2015

Talk

Dimbola Museums and Galleries

Terrace Lane
Freshwater Bay
PO40 9QE

01983 756 814

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The Power of Place Free

Source http://www.dimbola.co.uk

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Five writers, Robyn Bolam, Cassandra Clark, Lydia Fulleylove, Wendy K. Harris and Brian Hinton will read from and talk about their work.

All welcome. The Dimbola Tea Room will be open and serving refreshments before the event. This is a free event but donations to the Julia Margaret Cameron Trust are appreciated. Robyn also runs the Royal Literary Fund's 'Reading Round' here and would like to meet anyone interested in joining the group from September.

More about the Authors

Historical novelist, Cassandra Clark, ‘the mistress of the medieval whodunnit’, is the author of eight thrilling, carefully researched novels and a skilled evoker of known places, from northern Britain to medieval Europe. www.cassandraclark.co.uk

Wendy K. Harris’s ‘’Undercliff Novels’ , set on the Isle of Wight, have been praised for their ‘stunning sense of place’ as well as being compelling narratives which inspire her readers to visit the island she evokes so vividly. www.wendykharris.com

Author of three acclaimed poetry collections published by Bloodaxe Books, Robyn Bolam has been described as 'a poet of spirit and a poet of place’. Her latest work is concerned with the concept of ‘home’ and links between her native north and the south, where she now lives. www.robynbolam.com

Prize-winning poet, Lydia Fulleylove's second collection, Estuary, published in October 2014 by Two Ravens Press, tells the story of a year on the estuary of the Western Yar on the Isle of Wight, using poems, diary extracts and visual images from artist Colin Riches. www.lydiafulleylove.co.uk

Poet Brian Hinton is also the author of more than thirty books about literature, music, writers and place. As writer, researcher, curator, editor and actor, he has supported and promoted the arts on the Isle of Wight and elsewhere for many years. He is Chairman of the Julia Margaret Cameron Trust.