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Ruth Padel and
Jan Fortune-Wood

Little Theatre,
Holme Street,
Hebden Bridge
8.00pm to 9.30pm
£8

Ruth Padel has published seven collections of poetry, three shortlisted for the T S Eliot and / or Whitbread Prize. Her most recent work, a collection about her great great grandfather, Darwin - A Life in Poems has been widely acclaimed. Her non-fiction includes a book on rock music and Greek myth, a book on tiger conservation and two much-loved books on reading modern poetry, most recently The Poem and the Journey.

Jan Fortune-Wood is co-founder of Cinnamon Press in North Wales. She studied Theology at Cambridge, has a PhD in Feminist Theology and an MA in Creative Writing. Her books include non-fiction, three novels and two poetry collections. The most recent, Stale Bread and Miracles, is a sequence of prose poems based on her experiences as one of the first intake of women priests.

Harp For Hangovers

Laid-back, late night chill-out music.
The Hole in t’Wall,
Hangingroyd Lane,
Hebden Bridge
9.30pm to 11.00pm
£6

Mark Levin: 29-string Celtic Harp
Jenny Davidson: vocals, flute, guitar.

Mark’s style has been described as ‘a DJ set on a harp’, mixing in and out of all kinds of tunes. These currently include harp versions of music by Kings Of Leon, Radiohead, Queen, Chilli Peppers, Michael Jackson, Jeff Buckley and more. Surrey-born singer Jenny Davidson has performed in a variety of theatre shows and concerts ranging from the Royal Albert Hall to Glastonbury Festival.