The Launch...at last!

Grimsby Bound launches at the National Fishing Heritage Centre, Grimsby on Good Friday, 29 March 2013, between 3 and 5 pm.

Book and Songs and Reading CD's for sale after performances by Merlin's Keep, The Grimsby Bound Crew with a little help from me. Hope to see you there.

Hear us on the David Burns Show on Radio Humberside after 11.00am on Tuesday 2 April.

Launch at last

Grimsby Bound will be launched at the National Fishing Heritage Centre on Good Friday, 29 March 2013.

The book, the CD's with Merlin's Keep song settings of ten poems and readings of the entire collection by local poets and actors will be available on the day.

The launch will include a presentation with readings and songs.

Watch this space for further news.

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.