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Just Add Water – David Gaffney and Sarah-Clare Conlon
Tuesday 24 September, 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Poetry and prose about the sea, from lighthouses and oilrigs to shorebirds and whales
Join writers Sarah-Clare Conlon and David Gaffney for a literary celebration of all things aquatic.
David Gaffney was writer in residence for The Whale project, an interactive live theatre installation in Whitehaven, Cumbria, that offered a strange real-but-imagined encounter with a beached whale. During his residency, David produced a series of short stories inspired by the whale and people’s interactions with it, and these are all collected in his latest book, Whale, published by Osmosis Press, which David will read from.
“Playful, vividly unexpected, funny, these are short, sharp stories that stick deep in the heart and the mind and won’t be shaken out” – Jacob Polley
“I can think of few things more delightful than reading David Gaffney’s dark, funny, tiny, enormous stories riffing on the idea, the dream, the tales of whales” – Tania Hershman
Sarah-Clare Conlon has been writer in residence at Manchester’s Victoria Baths and on board the canalboat Furor Scribendi, and will read her recent poetry with watery themes.
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