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    Gemma Cairney & Michael Pedersen: Good Grief!

    Friday 26 August 19:00 - 20:00

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    Victoria Wood once joked that the British response to death was a woman dragging herself into the kitchen saying, ‘72 baps Connie. You slice, I’ll spread’. Hosts Michael Pedersen and Gemma Cairney want to do away with the idea that grief should be...
     

    Ocean Vuong: I'm Here to Stay

    Saturday 27 August 19:00 - 20:00

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    Ocean Vuong’s reckoning with the death of his mother – and the grief, trauma and love that attends such a loss – lies at the heart of his new poetry collection, Time is a Mother. Vuong’s work is infused with stories of migration, identity and...