by Administrator | Aug 2, 2020 | Quick Reads
Before becoming Sneinton Market, the area was the site of a clay pipe workshop. Its nearest homes, back-to-back housing known as ‘the Bottoms’, were more like slums. William Booth, born 1829, described the Sneinton of his youth, recalling “the degradation and...
by Administrator | Apr 27, 2020 | Readers & Writers
Me: I’m quarantined, trapped and ephemeral by this creepy pandemic! Yet, you are always on the high shelves, in the air, and eternal! Literature: I feel like I am vulnerable too, more remotely by hyper-individualist controllers. Me: You used to be my...
by Administrator | Mar 27, 2018 | Quick Reads
Last week, as part of the UNESCO Creative Cities of Literature programme, we sent Nottingham’s Young Poet Laureate Georgina Wilding on a big adventure across Europe to Granada in Spain. Georgina was invited by the team at Granada City of Literature to perform in the...
by Administrator | Sep 18, 2017 | Quick Reads
We have all heard of the suffering of the great numbers of refugees trying to reach Europe from war-torn or impoverished countries and the desperate situations they have encountered. In spite of the best efforts of reporters, it is hard for us to fully understand the...
