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24 Sep 03Feed Your Mind With Poole's Word and Book Festival
News Release Building on the success of last year, the Borough of Poole’s Culture and Community Learning Team are offering a bigger and better Word and Book festival for you to enjoy in 2003. \n From 3 – 18 October, venues across the Borough will be presenting a variety of exciting activities and events. Catering for all ages and tastes and offering across the board insights into literacy and culture, there will be something for everyone. Nickola Moore, Festival Organiser, Arts Development Team, said: "This year we have many local partners working with us to offer an excellent selection of events. There will be a poetry slam at the Lighthouse, Poole’s Centre for the Arts, historical walks through the back streets of Poole, book signings by celebrity authors, visual art exhibitions, creative writing workshops and much more." Kate Adie, the BBCs chief news correspondent, will open the Book Festival on Friday 3 October at Ottakar’s book store in Poole. Along with Kate other celebrities including Jeremy Bowen, the senior world affairs correspondent for the BBC, will be appearing during the festival. Councillor Tony Woodcock, Cabinet Portfolio Holder for Learning, said: "This festival is a wonderful example of the work happening in the Arts throughout the Borough of Poole. I welcome this celebration of the written and spoken word and I hope it encourages more awareness of reading for recreation and study." Acclaimed authors such as Minette Walters who is one of the most exciting and successful crime novelists writing today and Bernard Cornwell, author of the hugely popular Sharpe series of novels, will be talking about their latest books. Many marvellous activities are taking place for children and there are activities for keen adult readers and those wishing to develop writing skills. Beverley Naidoo, acclaimed author and winner of the Carnegie award for children’s fiction, is one of the many authors that children can meet. Kate Adie Salley Vickers Kate O’Riordon Minette Walters Bernard Cornwell Mil Millington Jeremy Bowen Beverley Naidoo Humphrey Carpenter Julian Rathbone Friday 3 Oct Saturday 4 Oct Sunday 5 Oct Monday 6 Oct Tuesday 7 Oct Wednesday 8 Oct Thursday 9 Oct Friday 10 Oct Saturday 11 Oct Monday 13 Oct Tuesday 14 Oct
Biographies of authors
Festival listings
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Short biographies of some of the authors involved in Poole’s word and Book Festival: \n
BBC chief news correspondent, in association with the imperial war museum, has written the first book to look at the image of uniformed women, both in conflict and in civilian roles throughout the twentieth century
The author of the international best-seller ‘Miss Garnets Angel’ and ‘Instances of the Number 3’
Award winning novelist who has been a recipient of the Sunday Tribune/Hennessy Prize for best emerging writer
One of the most exciting and successful crime novelists writing today
Author of the hugely successful Sharpe series of novels
The Guardian columnist has written ‘Things My Girlfriend And I Have Argued About’, a funny and heart-warming comedy about love and fatherhood
Senior world affairs correspondent for the BBC Drawing upon his experiences and building on the extensive original research and interviews with some of the key participants he has written a compelling account of the 1967 war between Israel and Egypt.
Acclaimed author and winner of the Carnegie award for children’s fiction
Worked for the BBC before writing the first of his many biographies, including J.R.R. Tolkien. He is the winner of among others, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize
Local author Julian, has written over thirty novels as well as being an accomplished reviewer and essayist.
10.30am & 1.30pm The story that went to sea, Lighthouse
12.30pm Kate Adie, Ottakars
10am Poetry and Peacocks, Upton House
11am Beverley Naidoo, Central Library
11am & 2pm The story that went to sea, Lighthouse
2pm Salley Vickers
3pm Banner Bonanza, Ottakars
7.30pm Kate O’Riordan and Louise Tondeur, Central Library
8pm Poetry Slam, Lighthouse
10am Ambush and Ambition, Poole Old Town
7.30pm Minette Walters, Central Library
10.30am Coffee with Thomas Hardy, Broadstone Library
7.30pm Bernard Cornwell, Central Library
11am The printed word, Waterfront Museum
7.30pm Girls night in, Central Library
All over Poole - Book in a day
6pm Tommy Steel, WHsmith
6pm Poetry competition, Ottakars
7pm Tea with Thomas Hardy, Canford Cliffs Library
11am Rodney Legg, WHsmith
7.30pm Crime Night, Central Library
10.30am Creative writing workshop, Oakdale
10.30am Odes from ancient Rome, Central Library
12.30pm Matilda, Lighthouse
3pm A.J. Butcher, Ottakars
7.30pm Jeremy Bowen, Central Library
8pm Death in Venice, Lighthouse
8pm The Victorian workaday world, Lighthouse
7pm The Warrior, Allesbrook Theatre
7.30pm Martin Allen, Central Library
8.30pm The Warrior, Lighthouse
10am The manuscript word, Waterfront Museum
10.30am Baby Bounce and Rhymetime, Central Library
6pm Sunset Boulevard, Lighthouse
7.30pm Humphrey Carpenter, Central Library
7.30pm Fahrenheit 451, Allesbrook Theatre
8pm The last September, Lighthouse
All day - Francis Frith Print, WHSmith
10.30am Hamworthy knows no bounds, Hamworthy Library
1.30pm The Queens Knickers, Central Library
6pm Fahrenheit 451, Lighthouse
7.30pm Film Quiz Night, Ottakars
8pm Don’t look know, Lighthouse
Thursday 16 Oct
10am The Queens Knickers, Central Library
3pm 84 Charing Cross road, Lighthouse
7.30pm Lucy Jago, Central Library
8pm Balzac and the little Chinese seamstress, Lighthouse
Friday 17 Oct
7.30pm Tom Cunliffe, Central Library
7.30pm The name of the rose, Allesbrook Theatre
8pm The ultimate cure for verse phobia, Lighthouse
8pm La Letrice, Lighthouse
Saturday 18 Oct
10.30am Poetry Workshop, The Oakdale Centre
2pm The Mayor of Casterbridge, Allesbrook Theatre
7.30pm Julian Rathbone, Central Library
Helen Smith or Nickola Moore, festival organisers on 01202 262422 / 633973
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