Hard Rhymes and Great Exclamations at Humber Mouth

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Hard Rhymes and Great Exclamations presents
Fred Voss and Joan Jobe Smith
'The Long Beach Connection'
at Hull Truck
Thursday 5th July 2012
7.30pm
Tickets £5
Hull Truck Box Office (01482) 323638
At The Humber Mouth Literature Festival 2012


Travelling over from the United States especially for this event, Fred Voss and Joan Jobe Smith will be appearing in the studio space at Hull Truck Theatre, with an evening of vivid vignettes that pull no punches and will hit you in the gut.

Fred Voss has been a machinist for 30 years, picking up the pen and the wrench to chronicle what goes on between tin walls. He has published three books of poems with Bloodaxe, Goodstone (1991), Carnegie Hall with Tin Walls (1998) and Hammers and Hearts of the Gods (2009).

His work has been featured prominently by the magazines Bête Noire in Britain and the Wormwood Review in the States, and he won the 1988 Wormwood Award.

Love Birds, a collaboration with his poet wife Joan Jobe Smith, won the 1996 Chiron Prize.

He lives in Long Beach, California, and works in a nearby factory.

Joan Jobe Smith was born January 25th 1940 in Paris, Texas and moved to Long Beach, California 6 weeks later. A 1975 graduate of California State University Long Beach, she subsequently received her Master of Fine Arts degree in fiction writing from the University of California Irvine.

The founding editor of Bukowski Review and Pearl (celebrating its 46th issue), her work, since 1974, has appeared internationally in more than 1,000 journals and anthologies and she has published more than 18 collections of poetry.

Funded by Hull City Council

Hull Truck Theatre
50 Ferensway
Hull
HU2 8LB
Tel: (01482) 323638

Price: £5.00

Time: 8:00pm