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riverlines
began in Spring 2000 as a joint venture between Literature Studies
at York St John and City Screen, an arthouse cinema which had just
moved from Museum Gardens to their new premises in the city centre.
The aim was to bring the best of contemporary writers to the heart
of York and provide a regular lively arts events for students, residents, and
visitors to the city in an informal setting. For the first few years
events took place in the Cafe Bar, but we moved down to the basement
bar, a more dedicated performance space, in 2002.
The
inaugural event with Sean O'Brien proved there definitely was an
audience for literature in the city. He returned to an even fuller
in house in October 2003 to find riverlines had gathered
momentum and hosted a wide range of writers ... many at the height
of their profession and some up and coming.
2000 Programme
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2007 Programme
Recent
events
| November | Ian McMillan
Ian Macmillan has been a poet, broadcaster, commentator and programme maker for over twenty years. He is poet in residence at Barnsley Football club, Northern Spirit Trains and Humberside Police. He currently presents his weekly show The Verb on Radio 3. He has been described by Sue Arnold of The Observer as 'without doubt the funniest, quirkiest, sharpest presenter in the business.' Ian is also a columnist for the Yorkshire Post and the Barnsley Chronicle.
He will be reading from his latest book Talking Myself Home: My Life in Verses.
The event is in City Screen's Basement Bar and begins at 7.30
| | | | | May | The Novelist's Japan
The Novelist's Japan
Fiona Campbell studied Psychology and Zoology at Bristol University before doing a PhD on social learning in animals. In 2001, she spent four months working in Tokyo and, upon returning to England, wrote Death of a Salaryman (Vintage), a quirky, moving novel about an ordinary man's extraordinary journey of self-discovery. She is currently policy director for the environmental campaigning charity ENCAMS.
“Fiona Campbell's comic caper is an entertaining overview of Japanese society's collision with the worst excesses of western culture.”
– The Guardian
Canadian Barrie Sherwood wrote two novels during four years spent in Japan, The Pillow Book of Lady Kasa (DC Books) and Escape From Amsterdam (Granta). He studied at the Universities of British Columbia and East Anglia. He now lectures in literature at York St John University.
“Sherwood is an immensely readable talent”
– Irish Times
| | | | | April | Novelist Andrew Cowan
Before Pig was published in 1994, Andrew Cowan worked as a postman, oral historian, offset litho printer, cleaner in a cake factory, and school librarian.
Pig won a Betty Trask Award, the Ruth Hadden Memorial Prize, the Authors Club First Novel Award, a Scottish Arts Council Book Award, the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, and was listed for five other literary awards including the Booker Prize.
His other novels are COMMON GROUND, CRUSTACEANS, and WHAT I KNOW. His work has been published in ten languages.
Pig is “A coming of age story as strange and surprising, in its way, as The Catcher in the Rye”
– New York Times
| | | | | March | An evening with York poets
Mairi MacInnes will be launching her new collection of poems, The Girl I Left Behind Me, published by the Shoestring Press. She is author of seven poetry collections, two novels, and a memoir, Clearances.
Pat Borthwick is a long-time member of the riverlines team, and a freelance writer. Her latest poetry collection, Wave, won last year's Templar prize.
Antony Dunn is published in Oxford Poets series (now produced by Carcanet Press). His latest Flying Fish (2002) willbe followed by Bugs next year. Antony also writes for film and stage. He led the Poetry Doubles series at Riding Lights Theatre and currently works for The Theatre Royal, York.
Nigel Forde's most recent collection is A Map Of The Territory. He is also an actor, broadcaster and playwright. He was for many years the voice of Radio 4's Poetry Bookshelf.
| | | | | February | riverlines resumes on Tuesday February 19th 7.30 with Novelist Sarah Bower
Novelist Sarah Bower will be talking about the fictional world of her first novel The Needle in The Blood. It has been described as 'a story of love and war and the tangled truths of Britain's birth, as carefully crafted as the Bayeux tapestry which is at its heart.' It was chosen by Susan Hill as her Novel of the Year for 2007. Bower's second novel The Book of Love will be published by Snowbooks in April. Sarah teaches creative writing at the University of East Anglia and works in a variety of community based projects to promote reading and creative writing. She lives in North Suffolk. | | | |
A list of less recent events can be found here, in reverse chronological order. Click on the name of a performer to view further information, where available. This will display in a pop-up window.
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