Real Dorset Jon Woolcott
Monday 17th April
Real Dorset by Jon Woolcott is a discursive, humorous, idiosyncratic and personal look at Dorset. The county is famous for spectacular coastlines, historic towns, its eco-foodie reputation, for Hardy and Fowles. Yet there’s much more behind the tourist-friendly façade – subversion, rebellion and revolt, wealth and poverty, ghost stories, rich folklore, film and music. Covering all aspects of life past and present, Real Dorset is sure to delight tourists, locals and armchair travellers alike. Its must-read alternative guide to this richly historical and much-visited edge of south-west England.
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You’ll Never Be Anyone Else Rachael Clyne
Monday 24th April
You’ll Never Be Anyone Else offers a unique story of survival and empowerment told in spite of experiences of violence and prejudice. A confident exploration of identity, self-acceptance and experiences of ageing, Clyne uses playful wit, and colourful imagery to explore Jewish and lesbian identity through various stages of life. Clyne is a distinctive new voice with a powerful message about self-acceptance.
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Say It With Me Vanessa Lampert
Monday 24th April
Say It With Me, Vanessa Lampert’s debut poetry collection, is a call to unite. These wry, candid poems playfully record the foibles and fables of domestic life. Portraits concerning memory and family juxtapose poignant poems of parenthood, loss and the body in triumph and decline. Through perceptive, vivid storytelling, Lampert lays bare human truths that are curious, funny and moving.
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Into the Same Sound Twice Zakia Carpenter-Hall
Monday 24th April
American poet Zakia Carpenter-Hall’s stunning debut pamphlet Into the Same Sound Twice is a place where ‘the ordinary rules of motion’ don’t always apply. What ensues are words, bodies and environments that thrum with new music. In language that is at once precise and tender, Carpenter-Hall leads us into rituals of care, ancestral memory, a rainbow that coruscates and various forms of rupture and repair.