Public Reading November 2011

Grimsby Folk Club are hosting a reading of Grimsby Bound as part of the "The Humber & The Tees; unlocking the collection." project on Sunday 27 November.   I will be telling the story and reading from the poems supported by Tracy Booth, Andy Freeman, Roger Beard and Carolyn Doyley.  We are thrilled to be sharing the same stage as the wonderful John Connolly.  You are most welcome to attend. More details are available at

http://www.grimsbyfolkclub.co.uk/november.php

The wider project nears completion and we hope to launch the book and CDs in the spring.

about Grimsby Bound

Grimsby Bound is Gordon Wilson's account, in verse, of the experiences of boy apprentices in the C19th Fishing Trade. In a polyphony of dramatic monologues it tells of their abuse and misuse at sea and ashore, a treatment that brought about four Parliamentary enquiries into the conditions in Grimsby's fishing industry.

Twenty four poems make up the collection which is scheduled for publication by Dreamcatcher Books in early in 2011.