Summer Reads 2011: Read Seeing Stars with the Book Club

Date: 17/05/2011 Times: 6pm Prices: Free Location: Waterstone's Castle Street, Norwich

Details on the first of the Summer Reads Book Club events: Simon Armitage's Seeing Stars

Description

Come and read one or more of our six great reads this May-July and then air your views on them with other interested readers at our Summer Reads Book Club.

The club will run once a fortnight from May at book shops and libraries around Norwich. You'll get to meet fellow readers and share your thoughts with others in lively, informal sessions. All sessions will be led by Writers' Centre Norwich's Sam Ruddock - a keen reader. You'll find yourself in a welcoming, inclusive environment with other people just as keen about reading as you are and you can come to all or just some of the sessions - it's up to you.

This week's book is Simon Armitage's Seeing Stars:

Language is on the loose in these poems, which cut and run across the parterre of poetic decorum with their cartoon-strip energies and air of misrule. Armitage creates world after world, peculiar yet always particular, where the only certainty is the unexpected.

Sam says: “Seeing Stars made me laugh out loud, even while pausing to take on a new perspective on life.”

Full Summer Reads Book Club Schedule (click on the links to find out more about the books):

Seeing Stars by Simon Armitage

Tuesday May 17th, 6pm, Waterstone’s Castle Street

After the Fire, A Still Small Voice by Evie Wyld

Tuesday May 31st, 6pm, Cafe Metro, Jarrold

Ghost Light by Joseph O'Connor

Tuesday June 14th, 6pm, Waterstone's Royal Arcade

The Good Angel of Death by Andrey Kurkov

Tuesday June 28th, 6pm, Millenium Library, Norwich

The Longshot by Katie Kitamura

Tuesday July 12th, 6pm, The Book Hive, Norwich

The Mango Orchard by Robin Bayley

Tuesday July 26th, 6pm, Writers’ Centre Norwich, 14 Princes Street

About Summer Reads 2011:

Summer Reads offers you the chance to read some or all of six great books and loads of extras: hearing the authors read at events, discussing the books online, downloading exclusive content and more.

Find out more here.

If you'd like to chat about the Book Club specifically do call Sam Ruddock on 01603 877177 or email him on sam.ruddock@writerscentrenorwich.org.uk

We look forward to seeing you soon.