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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/smithdown-social-wowfest-lights-
 bearing-west-book-launch-with-tony-wailey/
SUMMARY:Smithdown Social: Smithdown Social: WowFest: Lights Bearing West: B
 ook Launch with Tony Wailey
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\nLIGHTS BEARING WEST: BOOK LAUNCH\, WITH TONY WAILEY\n\n
 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTony Wailey’s latest book\, Lights Bearing West\, i
 s about memory\, place and distance\, messages sent\, delivered\, picked u
 p\, put down\, kept or discarded. Going away\, having adventures and comin
 g home\, whether these adventures are first hand or tenth hand\, is part o
 f everyone’s trilogy in Liverpool – even for those who have never left
  the river.  \n\n“Trace elements of ancestral blood\, Guiness\, and th
 e salt of seas and rivers saturate these pages\, a document of vast oceans
 \, heartbreak\, demented docklands and night visions of Valparaiso… Tony
  Wailey has a maritime soul and the romantic heart of a poet\, and his bea
 uty of a book is a waterfront archive of restless memory and unforgotten g
 hosts.” – Jeff Young\, author of Ghost Town: A Liverpool Shadowplay
 . \n\n“Lights Bearing West pulsates with the experience\, trauma and jo
 y of lives spent at sea. Through vivid personal stories of seafaring work\
 , of connections forged between different places and of union struggles\, 
 Tony Wailey brings to life past maritime worlds in ways that speak to cruc
 ial contemporary  political questions and concerns.” – David Feathers
 tone\, Professor of Political Geography\, University of Glasgow \n\nTon
 y will be signing copies of Lights Bearing West. \n\nTony Wailey was bo
 rn in Liverpool in 1947. He is the author of eight books\, including pocke
 t sized novels and three collections of poetry. Originally a seaman\, his 
 work concerns the cosmopolitan nature of the maritime city. He wrote Edgy
  Cities with Steve Higginson\, which had at its central theme the histori
 c flows of people and ideas to and from Liverpool. His latest work concern
 s the context of place in the narratives of family history. In this secon
 d volume of the Diary of the Smyth Waileys\, he still finds it amazing t
 hat his great uncle\, John Brown Wailey\, sailed on deck as a fully-fledge
 d\, able-bodied seaman aboard a 400-ton sailing ship from San Francisco to
  Sydney in 1885. He was just nineteen. A hundred years later\, Wailey was 
 awarded a Doctorate for his work on Liverpool’s Sea Going Communities an
 d its Seaman’s Union. He realises now how little he knew. \n\nSmithdown
  Social Arts Club\, 455 Smithdown Rd\, Liverpool L15 3JL \n\nWednesday 8t
 h May\, 7pm (for 7:30pm start) \n\n£3 \n\n*These are difficult times. W
 e know some people may struggle to afford full price tickets. If you would
  like to attend this event but can’t afford to\, please contact info@wr
 itingonthewall.org.uk. All queries will be treated in confidence.   
 \n\nIf you would like to purchase a gifted ticket for someone who can’t 
 afford it\, please buy directly from the event page and we will offer your
  ticket out.    \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEVENT DETAILS\nDate: May 8\, 2024\nT
 ime: 7:00 pm\n\n\n\n\n\n 	BUY TICKETS\n\n\n\n\n\n
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LOCATION:Smithdown Social\, 455 Smithdown Rd \, Liverpool\, L15 3JL\, Merse
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