Get Ready To See Things at Telltales
January 18th, 2014 | Published in Frontpage
Just over a week to go until ‘Seeing Things’ our next Telltales event on Tuesday 28 January. The venue, once again, is Dolly’s Wine Bar, Church Street, Falmouth (above the Falmouth Bookseller.) Doors open at 7pm and readings begin at 7.30pm prompt. Entry is free. We look forward to seeing you there.
Our last event was a great success. Sarah Jones has written the following piece to say thank you to our wonderful readers.
The theme for the evening was ‘Home’. As is the Telltales tradition, the evening was very well supported and the readers filled the room with wonderful literary flavours that were moving, humorous and inspirational.
The distinguished Penzance poet, Angela Stoner, opened the evening reading two of her stunning poems featuring mythological characters with a contemporary feel. Her poetry is inspired by the landscape of Cornwall and is full of rich imagery. Next up was Erica Green who read a moving story packed with subtle details about the main character’s past and present life, leaving us feeling a mixture of empathy and sorrow. The third reader of the evening was Caroline Carver, a local poet who has several publications to her name. She read a few of her amazing poems full of rich observations about life with a large dollop of humour. The final reader in the first half was Fi Read, a regular at Telltales, who read a short story and a poem. Fi has the ability to make her work both relevant and accessible to the audience.
After the interval we were treated to a further four readers starting with Heather Hosking. Heather read a superbly animated story about everything that can go wrong when arriving home in torrential rain to a power cut! Next up was Abigail Wyatt who is based in Redruth. Abi read a moving poem about her mother and some other fascinating poems with various themes relating to politics and other subjects. Jenny Scolding then read a short story about travelers in exotic places, which brought strong visual images to mind. Last but not least was Rob Barratt who brought us all down to earth with his upbeat rap style poetry about ordinary people and their lives.