Art Walk: January 2025
22 January 2025, 2pm
Enjoy an afternoon of art in the city. We will introduce you to exhibitions and arts organisations in Temple Bar which you can later explore at your own pace.
DABF23 Publishers Talk: Nina Hervé, Rough Trade Books
12 December 2023, 7:15pm
Join Dublin Art Book Fair Guest Curator Wendy Erskine in conversation with Nina Hervé of Rough Trade Books.
Join Wendy Erskine in conversation with Nina Hervé. Nina is co-director of Rough Trade Books, a UK based publishing house that brings the same spirit and radical direction as the pioneering record label of the same name. Rough Trade Books have published books by writers Musa Okwonga, Salena Godden and the multi-award winning Sheena Patel, and pamphlets by Tom Morris, Max Porter and Jen Calleja.
Nina Hervé is the publisher at Rough Trade Books. Born in Jersey, Channel Islands, she currently lives in Buckinghamshire with her husband and their beloved garden. She dislikes public speaking but found it hard to say no to Wendy Erskine for this incredible opportunity.
Rough Trade Books is a publishing house by the same people behind Rough Trade Records. This new adventure in ‘capitalism’ is in the spirit of the pioneering independent record label, trading books and other wares of the same originality and radical direction
Wendy Erskine is the author of two prize-winning short story collections published by The Stinging Fly Press. She is a frequent broadcaster and interviewer, and her non-fiction is widely published. In 2022, she was Seamus Heaney Fellow at Queen’s University and she is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. She is also a full-time secondary school teacher.
This event takes place as part of Dublin Art Book Fair 2023: Polyphonic, sponsored by Henry J Lyons and supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature.
Image description: A picture of eight Rough Trade Books' publications which are laid out in two lines of four. From left to right the books are Roshni Goyate, Sharan Hunjan, Sheena Patel, 4 Brown Girls Who Write; André Naffis-Sahely, The Other Side of Nowhere; Lily Blacksell, Stress Tested; Tim MacGabhann, Rory Gallagher – Live! – from the Hotel to the Dead; Patrick Jones, My Bright Shadow; Ella Frears, I Am The Mother Cat; Martha Sprackland, Milk Tooth; and Olly Todd, Odeum Spotlights. The books are laid out on red paper with a repeat stamp-like pattern of a black book that reads Rough Trade Books in negative space on its front cover.