Leeds Lit Fest
Leeds Lit Fest -Dr Ellen Welch: Why Can’t I See My GP?
The Leeds Library 18 Commercial Street, Leeds, England, United KingdomUK general practice has reached crisis point. The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has placed a strain on an already crumbling primary care service, leaving both patients and NHS staff struggling. Seventy-five years after the NHS was created, Dr Ellen Welch lifts the curtain on general practice. She looks back on the history of the […]
Leeds Lit Fest – Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class
The Leeds Library 18 Commercial Street, Leeds, England, United KingdomRob Henderson was born to a drug-addicted mother and a father he never met - and grew up in ten different foster homes in California. When he is finally adopted into a loving family, he is hopeful that life will finally be stable and safe. But divorce, tragedy, poverty, and violence mark his adolescence, and […]
Leeds Lit Fest – STRIKE: Sarah Wimbush
The Leeds Library 18 Commercial Street, Leeds, England, United Kingdom‘STRIKE’, published by Stairwell Books in January 2024, is the latest book by award-winning Leeds/Doncaster poet Sarah Wimbush. It is an exploration of both famous and previously unseen photographs of the 1984 miners’ strike, through the lens of poetry. 2024 is the 40th anniversary of the start of the 1984-1985 miners’ strike, one of the […]
Leeds Lit Fest – Launch: The Cautious Traveller’s Guide to the Wastelands
The Leeds Library 18 Commercial Street, Leeds, England, United KingdomDon’t miss the launch of library member Sarah Brooks’ much-anticipated debut! It is the end of the Nineteenth Century, and the world is awash with marvels. But there is nothing so marvellous as the Wastelands: a terrain of terrible miracles that lies between Beijing and Moscow. Nothing touches the Wastelands except the Great Trans-Siberian Express: […]
Leeds Lit Fest – The Invisible Worm: Hannah Stone
Hyde Park Book Club 27-29 Headingley Lane, Leeds, United KingdomPlease note: this event is taking place at the Hyde Park Book Club Join poets and fellow Dream Catcher editors Hannah Stone and Joe Williams in conversation on Hannah's most recent collection, The Invisible Worm (Indigo Dreams Publishing, 2023). 'Part threnody, part celebration of friendship’, these poems celebrate Hannah’s friendship with Rosemary Mitchell, and explore […]
Leeds Lit Fest – Zine-making workshop
The Leeds Library 18 Commercial Street, Leeds, England, United KingdomExplore the art of zine-making in the gorgeous setting of the Leeds Library. You’ll be introduced to what a zine is: a DIY, creative, experimental way of putting together words and images, which can be about whatever you want. The workshop leader will demonstrate different ways of folding paper to make a classic zine format. […]
Leeds Lit Fest – Library Libations: Peepal Tree Poets Call to Power
The Leeds Library 18 Commercial Street, Leeds, England, United KingdomAn unmissable reading from two Leeds-based poets with debut collections from the mighty Peepal Tree Press. Emily Zobel Marshall’s Bath of Herbs explores the complexity of mixed-race, hybrid identities and relationships to the English and Welsh mountains, fells, rivers and shorelines from an ‘othered’, unmappable, positionality. Adam Lowe’s Patterflash is a PBS Recommendation, receiving acclaim […]
Leeds Lit Fest – Frau, That’s What I Call Music!
The Leeds Library 18 Commercial Street, Leeds, England, United KingdomDietrich, Lemper, La Voix…The cabaret has given rise to some of the most boundary- pushing female performers of the 20th & 21st Centuries. Yet the songwriters that get remembered remain staunchly male. No more, we say! Amy J Payne, Anna Pool and Oliver Rundell invite you to a relaxed and intimate cabaret of words and […]
