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#Arachne5 I missed Jeremy!

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I don’t know how that happened – actually I do, the live feed on Facebook of Jeremy Dixon reading In Retail (xxiii) (from The Other Side of Sleep) was getting so many plays I forgot to upload the more professionally recorded version!

Here it is…

And here is audio of him reading his Liberty Tales poems, later in the evening when I had run out of camera battery

Jeremy is joining us at The Poetry Book Fair at Conway Hall this Saturday, and will be reading from around 4.30 in the garden cafe in Red Lion Square, alongside Sarah James and Lisa Kelly.

Jeremy is on our list of people to publish over the next three years. Just got to land some funding!

#Arachne5 Wednesdays will never be the same again

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Carrie Cohen reads part of David Mathews‘ Wednesday Afternoons from Solstice Shorts, Sixteen Stories about Time at our #Arachne5 fifth anniversary party. She is keen to read the whole thing somewhere, soon.

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Catch Carrie’s next gig with us.

#Arachne5 Internet Dating

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Liam Hogan reads Internet Dating for Immortals from Happy Ending NOT Guaranteed. at our #Arachne5 5th Anniversary party.

Here’s a picture of Liam reading elsewhere

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#Arachne5 freedom pass

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Carolyn Eden reads at our #Arachne5 5th anniversary party, from her story Free White Towel, which is in Liberty Tales. Just audio for this one as the camera had packed up.

Here’s a picture of Carolyn reading it at another event.

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#Arachne5 two different ways of dealing with disputes…

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The last of the videos from #Arachne5 anniversary party, the camera battery died after this – so it will be just audio from here on.

Nichol Wilmor reads An Account of Six Poisonings from Weird Lies in which families and lovers resort to extreme measures.

and Sarah Lawson reads Next Door to the Capulets, (originally read at our Shakespeare inspired Midsummers Night In The Garden event) in which, whilst the Capulets and Montagues disturb a lot of air, the neighbours just grumble.

Weird lies is part of special offer for our 5th Anniversary – get it for just £5

#Arachne5 Katy Darby proves prescience

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On to the just audio now, in our records of the anniversary party, having forgotten the spare battery for the camera (grr)

There is a tiny bit of video from Carrie Cohen:

 

Katy Darby reads Keep Calm and Carry On, from our very first book London Lies

In which the world goes to hell in a hand cart and there are no more Catherine Cookson novels…

#Arachne5 Old women getting the better of …

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More video from the 5th Anniversary party, Ian Kennedy & Sarah Lloyd singing folk songs about outwitting the devil – originally planned to go alongside Liam Hogan‘s Bad Day, but there were changes to the programme and they fit surprisingly well against Ghillian Potts‘  Old Woman From Friuli, outwitting the Duke.

#Arachne5 lullabies, gardens and elephants

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More videos from the 5th anniversary party

Summer All Year Long and Ian Kennedy & Sarah Lloyd with contrasting lullabies to introduce Kate Foley’s reading from The Don’t Touch Garden

#Arachne5 Taking Liberties

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More from the Arachne 5th Anniversary Party – Summer All Year Long singing songs of protest, Liberty, and Bread and Roses, followed by Carolyn Eden reading from Free White Towel, her story in Liberty Tales

 

 

#Arachne5 Party: videos for Stations

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We had so much fun at the party on Friday. The quality of the live video (find it on Facebook) is a bit ropey so here is some better quality!

Here are Summer All Year Long singing the song from the original launch party for Stations, Sweet Train Roll Softly based on (the much better) Sweet Thames Roll Softly, by Ewan MacColl. We had a different arrangement originally, by Peter Morgan, but an almost entirely different choir membership and very little rehearsal, so this is Melanie Harrold‘s arrangement (more or less) which we learnt more recently.

And Bartle Sawbridge reading the middle section of Rich and Strange, the story he wrote for the Shadwell stop on the journey the anthology takes from Highbury and Islington to West Croydon.

As part of our 5th anniversary celebrations Stations is available for a bargain £5 from our web shop.

We are crowdfunding for Solstice Shorts Festival 2017 DUSK. help us reach our target!