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Recovery Songs
Tuesday 6 March
Recovery Songs


Partnership event with Hyde Park Book Club
Ralph Dartford
Recovery Songs by Ralph Dartford tells a true story of how and why addiction occurs, and how it can eventually stop. Painful, insightful, funny, and ultimately redemptive, Ralph Dartford draws from the stories of his life to fuse narratives and poems that will move you to understand that everything you thought you knew about addiction is maybe wrong.

Ralph hails from Basildon, Essex and is founder member of highly acclaimed spoken word collective A Firm of Poets. Ralph has been published in The Guardian, Stirring Magazine (US), Pulp Faction, Exterminating Angel Press (US) and London Territories. His first collection, Cigarettes, Beer and Love was published by Ossett Observer Presents in July 2013.

Wonderfully dynamic’ - York Press
Great Support’ - Kate Tempest
This is proper, visceral stuff about real life. Poetry for the rest of us’ - Luke Wright

Contains adult themes and some strong language.

7.30pm Hyde Park Book Club, Headingley Lane
Free. Donations welcome