Jawara sat by the strange river on a hard, wooden bench watching a mother duck leading her brood of ducklings as they swam line astern towards the grassy bank. Despite the bright spring sunshine a chill wind shivered the surface of the river into flecks of silver. He pulled his loose robe closer around him, the hot colours of the Gambia burning amongst the greens and browns of England.
Riverbank Writers was born 18th September 2007 at its first meeting in the Castle and Ball, High Street, MarlboroughThe session was hosted by local writer Jon Cannon on behalf of Kennet Valley Arts Trust as part of the Lottery Funded ‘Reclaim Our River’ project 6 local people came along to find out more and during the course of open discussions it was decided to set up as a creative writing group who will meet once a week every Wednesday 6pm-8pm at the Sun Inn For more information about Kennet Valley Arts Trust and the Riverbank Project go to www.riverbank.org.uk For more information about Reclaim Our River visit http://reclaimourriver.blogspot.com
