As both an author and a publisher I am delighted that Hull Truck is giving us this great opportunity to showcase Hull and East Riding writers, a topic which has been close to my heart ever since we set up The A63 Revisited (www.a63revisited.com) to identify, showcase and promote Hull artists, as do ThisisUll (www.thisisull.com) on a larger scale and Hull Art (www.facebook.com/hullart) on the visual arts side.
I have met many of the writers being exhibited and greatly appreciate their work. The exhibitor I haven't been able to get hold of is Robert 'The Hermit Crab' Adams, and I am right chuffed to be assured that there is no escape for him this time.
We hope that this exhibition will help create a greater awareness of how much writing (and other) talent there is around Hull and the East Riding, which has certainly come as a pleasurable shock to me over the last two years. If all the writers in the region who have been published were to be represented at the next exhibition, we would need 75-100 stalls. It sounds like we had better take over the theatre, Rich.
It is also wonderful that this exhibition is taking place in the working home of John Godber ,who has done so much, together with Philip Larkin, to encourage writing talent where once we were only gutting fish (safer too).
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