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URL:https://felixstowebookfestival.co.uk/events/29
SUMMARY:Martin Newell and The Hosepipe Band
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 oto credit: Philip Crummy[/caption]\n\nEssex poet-musician-columnist Marti
 n Newell reads two of his long poems 'The Song of the Waterlily - the buil
 ding of a boat' and 'Black Shuck'\, accompanied by original music composed
  by members of The Hosepipe Band.\n\n'The Song of the Waterlily' has been 
 performed for the Poetry Wivenhoe group\, at Folk East Festival (2015)\, 
 at Essex Poetry Festival and at a number of other arts centres in our regi
 on. One blogger in the festival audience commented: "… an unexpected del
 ight\, was poet Martin Newell and the Hosepipe Band whose words-and-music 
 epic 'The Song of the Waterlily' was\, for me\, worth the Sunday entrance 
 fee on its own."\n\n[caption id="attachment_2420" align="alignright" width
 ="290"] Martin and The Hosepipes[/caption]\n\n'The Song of the Waterlily' 
 describes the building and proving of a traditional Essex deep-sea fishing
  smack from tree to sea. We follow the story through the eyes of a young
  shipwright\, helping a master shipwright to construct the boat. We then f
 ollow the progress of the boat from her launch\, her naming and her first 
 regatta race\, until the day of her proving when she must face a storm in 
 the perilous North Sea.\n\n'Black Shuck' tells of the sinister\, ghostly d
 og said to have haunted East Anglia since Viking times. For hundreds of ye
 ars\, Black Shuck\, who is associated with death\, has stalked the dens\, 
 coastlands and churchyards of eastern England. The poem follows in the pha
 ntom dog's tracks through the half-forgotten villages and lanes of North E
 ssex\, Suffolk and Norfolk and captures some of the dark mystery of this l
 argely unsung part of Britain.\n\nAn audio CD recording of this unique wor
 k will available at the festival or\, in advance from the group's website\
 n\n[caption id="attachment_2421" align="aligncenter" width="421"] Folk Eas
 t[/caption]
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LOCATION:Orwell Hotel - His Lordship's Library\, Hamilton Road\, Felixstowe
 \, United Kingdom
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