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This month's newsletter from the editor.
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With Opal Palmer Adisa & Erna Brodber
Date: Sunday 4 February
Time: 6.30-8.30 pm
Venue: Peepal Tree Press, 17 Kings Ave, Leeds, LS6 1QS T:0113 245 1703 (Buses 49, 50, 50a, 18 to Burley Road, nr. Yorkshire TV) Please note, Erna Brodber will not be at this event.
Free, but do call to reserve space.
Come and listen to visiting Jamaican writer, Opal Palmer Adisa, read from her new collection of short stories, Until Judgement Comes : Stories About Jamaican Men (Peepal Tree Press)
Opal Palmer Adisa is a vivacious and mesmeric performer and a wonderful storyteller, transporting her listeners to the very wonderlands she creates. Her work has been described by Alice Walker as "solid, visceral, important stories written with integrity and love."
Opal is an award winning poet and prose writer with 11 titles to her credit. www.opalwriters.com
The evening will be a reading and Q and A with Opal with time to sign books and chat afterwards (Books will be on sale, too!)
Date: Monday 5th February
Time: 7.15-8.45
Venue: the Jamaica Society, (Leeds), Jamaica House, 277 Chapeltown Road, Leeds, LS7 3HA, Tel 0113 262 6435
Please note, Erna Brodber will not be at this event. Free, but do call to reserve space.
Date: Tuesday 6th February
Time: 5 pm
Venue: The Centre of West African Studies at University of Birmingham.,
Tel: +44 (0)121 414 3344
Date: Wednesday 7th February
Time: 12.30 - 2 pm
Venue: The Centre for Caribbean Studies at the University of Warwick (Coventry)
Tel: +44 (0)24 7652 3443
Date: Thursday 8th February
Location:
The George Padmore Institute
76 Stroud Green Road,
Finsbury Park, London N4 3EN
Nearest Underground/ Mainline rail : Finsbury Park
Time: Reading Begins at 7 :00pm
Ticket Prices: £5.00
For more information or to book a ticket:
Tel. 020 7272 4889, E-mail: newbeaconbooks@btconnect.com
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