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Patrick Barkham - The Swimmer

Award-winning author and Guardian writer Patrick Barkham will talk about his biography of Roger Deakin.

Roger Deakin was unique, and so too is this joyful work of creative biography, told primarily in the words of the subject himself, with support from a chorus of friends, family, colleagues, lovers and neighbours.

Roger Deakin, who died in 2006, was a writer, filmmaker and environmentalist of international renown. He was a founder member of Friends of the Earth, and co-founded Common Ground. Author of the immortal Waterlog, he was a man of many parts: maverick ad-man, cider-maker, teacher, environmentalist, music promoter and filmmaker. But, above all, he was the restorer of ancient Walnut Tree Farm in Suffolk, the heartland where he wrote about all natural life – with rare attention, intimacy, precision and poetry.
7pm
Tickets £8 each
includes £3 off the book at the event
ST Marys Church Ross on Wye Herefordshire HR9 5HN
Thu 25 July
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