Events & News in the Tees Valley

Vane Women launches new titles

Date: 19 November 
Time: 7.30 pm
Venue: Garden Bar, Darlington Arts Centre
Tickets: £4/£2 conc
Tickets available from the Arts Centre Box office: 01325 486 555

MORE ABOUT THE BOOKS

Collecting Stones, Vane Women Anthology

Collecting Stones is an anthology of poems and stories inspired by Harehope Quarry, Weardale, location of the famous Frosterley Marble.

Beautiful Ink and Wash drawings by John Longstaff who has worked for 30 years as artist/cartoonist. Under the pen name Cluff he is The Northern Echo's pocket cartoonist. His great grandfather lived on Whitfield Brow above Bollihope Burn which runs through Harehope Quarry.

"A disused lime quarry reclaimed by nature and invested with new human activity contains a deep bed of metaphor. These writings and images are the riches won by working it."
Steve Dales

Stripping the Blackthorn by Lindsay Balderson
When Lindsay Balderson looks at High Force in spate she sees twin towers falling. This is a remarkable collection as it reminds us that terror and beauty live in the same world.

While we are growing up parents can be planning their divorce in the next room. While we are boarding a train, another passenger can be led away in handcuffs. Stripping the Blackthorn opens our eyes to the shadows in our lives, none darker than the vaults in the minds of torturers. Love is celebrated as the fruit of the thorn, as it should be.