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SUMMARY:Manchester Literature Festival: Lindsey Hilsum 
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DESCRIPTION:‘I was standing outside an apartment block that had been spli
 t apart by a missile. The words of a poem came to me when I could no lon
 ger find my own.’\n\nIn the four decades she’s spent as a foreign corres
 pondent\, Lindsey Hilsum has always carried a book of poetry with her. P
 oetry has helped her to make sense of the world and acted ‘as a vaccinat
 ion against despair’. In this special event\, Lindsey will reflect on so
 me of the poems collected in her captivating new book I Brought the War 
 with Me and discuss her career\, during which she has interviewed the wa
 rlords of Bosnia and Sudan\, met child soldiers in Uganda and given test
 imony about the genocide in Rwanda. \n\nLindsey is Channel 4 News' Inter
 national Editor. Her book\, In Extremis: the Life of War Correspondent M
 arie Colvin\, won the James Tait Black Prize for biography. She has cove
 red the major conflicts and refugee movements of the past three decades\
 , including Syria\, Mali\, Iraq\, and Kosovo and the Israeli-Palestinian
  conflict. She has won many awards\, including the Royal Television Soci
 ety Journalist of the Year and the Royal Geographical Society Patron's M
 edal. Presented by Manchester Literature Festival in partnership with th
 e Centre for New Writing and Creative Manchester. \n\nTickets £12/£10 \n
 Book on 0161 876 2015 or https://manchesterliteraturefestival.co.uk/even
 ts/lindsey-hilsum\n
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LOCATION:Central Library\, 1 St Peter's Square\, Manchester\, m2 5pd
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