Author signing & Poetry at 12th ExLibris Masked Booksale

Meet the author / buy a signed book AND Poetry: Dave Wood and Friends

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Meet Rowena Edlin-White.

Exploring Nottinghamshire Writers

We’re really pleased!

Nottingham is a great literary city – find out more.

Local author Rowena Edlin-White will be at the ExLibris Masked Charity Megabooksale on Saturday April 28th at 1.30pm to sell and sign copies of her fascinating new book “Exploring Nottinghamshire Writers”. Come along, buy Rowena’s book, and stay for poetry with Dave Wood and friends at 2pm.
(Obviously these are brand new copies, so not subject to the usual ExLibris ridiculously cheap pricing.)

Exploring Nottinghamshire Writers is a guide-book to the literary landscape of the region – three centuries and more of writers and the places that inspired them. This book celebrates not only the obvious giants like Byron, Lawrence and Sillitoe, but dozens of others who were best-sellers in their day (Muriel Hine and J.C. Snaith, anybody?) and others whose stories had been forgotten.

Here, then, are more than a hundred Nottinghamshire authors – including a representative selection of those writing today – who together contribute to the rich literary heritage which makes Nottingham and her environs so special and ripe for further exploration!

Rowena Edlin-White is a great supporter of ExLibris. She is Nottingham born and bred, descended from lace-makers, actors, artists and second-hand dealers. She is an author, researcher, performer, small publisher and a compulsive “snapper-up of unconsidered trifles.” For this book she has spent five years ransacking the libraries, bookshops, archives and graveyards of Nottinghamshire to uncover some of the more obscure corners of our literary past – and struck gold!

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Dave Wood and Friends: Read as you are; no mic, no stage, just sitting around with cake. In conjunction with ExLibris, the Masked Booksellers and Nottingham Poetry Festival 2018.

Dave and t’others will start by performing their own poetry, then it will be your chance – open floor (or lawn, depending on weather) to follow, so bring a poem if you’d like to read or perform or just come and listen, clap, cheer, throw money in the ExLibris tin or swoon with a bookish fever.

Dave Wood lives locally and has been working in community arts and poetry for 30 years. http://nottinghamcommunityarts.blogspot.co.uk/. His poems contain humour, unexpected twists, sometimes spaghetti and lovely,lovely words. His commitment to the natural world has encompassed projects such as the Perambulations of Sherwood Forest

Sherwood Forest on Your Doorstep: people, places, hidden histories along the ancient perambulation route

We are delighted that Dave’s friends include Rosie Garner (http://www.writingeastmidlands.co.uk/writers-directory/rosie-garner/ ), Richard Young and Martin Dean.

2pm Saturday April 28th at the 12th ExLibris Masked Charity Booksale, 16 Vernon Avenue, Carlton, Nottingham NG4 3FX.

Free, but you might like to buy a bargain rescued book from ExLibris to support local charities: Nottingham and Notts
Refugee Forum & Hayward House (end of life care/Nottingham HospitalsCharity).

Rescued books sold affordably to raise funds for local charities.
Enjoy some hours of browsing and find bargains . . . wear a mask . . .

At the 12th Annual ExLibris Masked Charity Booksale, 16 Vernon NG4 3FX. Books rescued and sold cheaply to raise funds for good causes.

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