Barton discusses music and landscape - the subjects of her current work-in-progress. Sutherland, the man behind The Three Stigmata of Pacman takes us on a journey through another landscape.

Laura Barton is a feature writer and music columnist for The Guardian, and also writes for The Word, Intelligent Life and Radio 4, amongst others. Her first novel, Twenty-One Locks, was published by Quercus in 2010. She is now working on a second novel and a non-fiction book about music and landscape which she will discuss at this event. Music and landscape also tangle strangely in the work of Ross Sutherland, a man whose poems roam the gulf between popular culture and common sense, occasionally raising their heads to yell ‘Why?’ at the heavens. Ross has successfully toured a number of spokenword shows, the most recent being The Three Stigmata of Pacman. ‘Refreshingly fearless and bleakly funny’ Luke Kennard