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Robert
Endeacott of Leeds, David Gill of Shipley, and Tom Palmer of Todmorden,
have joined forces to come up with a new season tour of their own.
The
trio are taking football writing on the road with a series of live
literature events across the region.
The
poet, novelist and non-fiction writer will read from their works
in a bid to score new fans of literature and prove reading and writing
is open to all.
The
tour kicks-off at Borders Bookshop in Leeds on Wednesday 2 October
at 7pm.
Supporters
The writers each explore what it means to be a Leeds supporter,
not ignoring hooliganism and the controversy which has beset the
club and its fans.
Robert
Endeacott will be reading from One Northern Soul which charts the
teenage years of a Leeds fan trying to find his place in the football-obsessed
West Yorkshire of the early 80s.
David
Gill's poems celebrate the Leeds United greats and Tom Palmer, author
of If You're Proud to be a Leeds Fan, presents a diary of the turbulent
2001/02 season.
The
tour hopes to open up reading to a new audience - convincing men
and young people that excitement doesn't end on the terraces but
can be generated with words.
Football
chant
The readings will be delivered in the writers' theatrical best and
there will even be a rousing football chant or two!
Tom
Palmer says: "Everyone will be welcome to come along and enjoy it,
football fans or not. It does tackle serious issues: hooliganism,
football plcs and the Bowyer-Woodgate trial.
"It's
also a chance to celebrate the football writing genre which is alive
and kicking. Especially in Leeds.
"We
recognise there's a boom in football writing and that people want
to come to events to hear it. It used to be an oxymoron: football
writing. But now it's taken seriously.
"A
book about football gets closer to themes like love and hate and
loss and jealousy than lots of the literary fiction I've read."
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