Story Café Special: Ruth Carr

Feel refreshed over lunchtime as we listen to stories and poems by some of the best women writers around the globe.

Story Café Special: Ruth Carr, Thursday 4th October, 12.30pm to 2.30pm, £2/Free

We’re thrilled to be sharing National Poetry Day with Irish poet Ruth Carr. Born in Belfast, Ruth edited The Female Line, the first anthology of women’s writing to come out of Northern Ireland, and was a founder member of Word of Mouth women’s poetry collective. Ruth will be reading from her latest collection, Feather and Bone, which responds with curiosity and compassion to the lives of two remarkable women from the past: Dorothy Wordsworth and Mary Ann McCracken.

Mary Ann McCracken was born in Belfast in 1770, Dorothy Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth in 1771. Their paths never crossed yet their lives shared similar preoccupations and activities – reading, letter writing, the abolition of slavery and lifelong devotion to a more conspicuous brother.  Ruth Carr draws on both historical facts and her own imagination to respond to their deep and lengthy lives.

After this Story Café Special, Ruth will be leading a creative writing workshop about how to recreate your own remarkable women on paper. You can find out more here.

See all our Story Cafe’s this Autumn here.

Booking

This event is women only* and we prefer for tickets to be booked in advance whenever possible. This event costs £2 full price. Select the number of tickets you want to book below, or come in to the Library to book. We offer subsidised free places for students, people on a low income, unemployed or those in receipt of benefit and Friends of GWL.

*All women-only events are inclusive of Trans and Intersex women, as well as non-binary and gender fluid people who identify in a significant way as woman or female.