A BookBlast 10x10 Tour LIVE event from Waterstones Leeds, England (20.09.2018) Feat. Ra Page (chair) & Georgia de Chamberet (interim chair), Comma Press, in conversation with C.D. Rose who has written stories set in Paris, Naples, St. Petersburg, Lisbon, Manchester and Birmingham & Ian Duhig who has won the National Poetry Competition twice and whose collection, 'The Lammas Hireling', was the Poetry Book Society’s Choice for Summer 2003. He has held various Royal Literary Fund fellowships at universities including Lancaster, Durham, Newcastle and his own alma mater, Leeds. Topics: Comma's City Series which sets fiction against fact, blurring truth and the imagination; wealth, poverty & gentrification across the last century in Leeds (a survivors' city and not fashionable like Manchester or Liverpool), and Birmingham (much of the centre has been knocked down and rebuilt); blind Jack Metcalf, a major 18th century road builder; Tolkien and the discovery of his diaries; reading and writing vs. poetry and song . . . With active audience participation. Titles discussed: 'The Book of Birmingham' and 'The Book of Leeds ' – available from www.commapress.co.uk Presented by Georgia de Chamberet | Produced by Ben Fiagbe.

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