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Monday 01 March 2010
Christopher Reid, Wapping, this Thursday
Christopher Reid will be reading from The Song of Lunch, A Scattering and perhaps others at the Wapping Project bookshop, London, E1W 3SG, this
Thursday, 4 March, at 7.30. The space is small; to ensure a place, email lydia.fulton@mac.com (via SonofaBook; thanks Charles!)
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Tuesday 02 February 2010
Stanley Middleton celebration
David Belbin (thanks Dave!) tells me:
On May 8th 2010, the University of Nottingham will host a celebration of the life of one of its most widely respected alumni, the novelist Stanley Middleton. The Booker Prize winning author died in July 2009, a week short of his 90th birthday. The celebration will include live music, readings from Stanley’s novels, poems and unpublished letters, together with short talks on his life and work (more...)
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Monday 18 January 2010
Best of European Fiction series
Tonight, I'll be at the South Bank Centre for A different window: reading European fiction, in which Aleksandar Hemon (editor of Best European Fiction 2010), AS Byatt and Tom McCarthy will discuss their personal readings of European writers such as Kafka and Nabokov and the impact of European fiction on their own writing. Sadly, I understand that the event is now sold out.
However, on Wednesday, another Best European Fiction 2010 event is happening with Andrej Blatnik, Jon Fosse and Christine Montalbetti discussing their work and reading from BEF 2010. The Monday event is really just a prequel for the Wednesday event so, if you've missed out on tonight's gig, make sure you don't miss out on Wednesday's session where you'll have a real chance to engage with some very exciting writers. More at the South Bank website.
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Thursday 29 October 2009
Steampunk
Anyone near Oxford should make the effort to head to the Museum of the History of Science's superb Steampunk exhibition. It is, we're told, "the world’s first exhibition of Steampunk art" and is a delight. One of the most enjoyable and surprising exhibitions I've seen in a very long time. Only two fairly small rooms, admittedly, but packed with some startling artefacts. Do it.
Imagine the technology of today with the aesthetic of Victorian science. From redesigned practical items to fantastical contraptions, this exhibition, curated by Art Donovan, showcases the work of eighteen Steampunk artists from across the globe.
Expect ’steam-powered’ computer mice, clockwork hearts, brass goggles and the latest state-of-the-Steampunk-art eye-pod (more...)
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Thursday 01 October 2009
Robert Chandler talks of Pushkin (tonight!)
Tonight, Thursday 1st October, at 7.00 p.m. at the Calder Bookshop (opposite The Young Vic; 51 The Cut, London SE1 8LF), Robert Chandler will be talking about his recent, short biography of Alexander Pushkin. Robert will talk about what he learned while writing his book, and also read passages of Pushkin's poetry and prose in English.
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Monday 29 June 2009
Publishing Laid Bare Conference
Last Thursday, I spoke at Legend Press's first Publishing Laid Bare Conference. Basically, I said, "the internet is good, bloggers are fab" -- so nothing particularly newsworthy there then! But thanks so much to the good folk at Legend Press for inviting me to speak and thanks to everyone for the warm reception I got from those in attendance on the day.
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Friday 19 June 2009
World Literature Weekend
World Literature Weekend -- 19th to 21st June 2009:
The idea of dedicating a weekend of talks and discussions to foreign and translated literature has evolved over the six years since the London Review Bookshop first opened and began holding events that have earned it a proud reputation. Looking back at those events, I notice one thing immediately: how lucky we have been in attracting writers from all over the world. This festival is our way of celebrating that; several of the distinguished authors who have agreed to take part are travelling from abroad especially for the festival. (More.)
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Friday 19 June 2009
Oxford Working Class Bookfair
On Saturday (20th June) the first Oxford Working Class Bookfair is being held:
... between 11 am and 6 pm at Ruskin College, Walton Street, Oxford... On the eve of the Summer solstice there will be a gathering of the tribes - a bookfair - a place to meet likeminded people and exchange ideas and information. There will be talks, badges, posters, DVDs, CDs, workshops, music, culture, short films, magazines, lectures, warm atmosphere, fellowship, meet new people, education, entertainment, magazine, newspapers and BOOKS! (More.)
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Friday 13 February 2009
Gramsci and The Lord of the Rings
Next Thursday, 19th February, 7.00-8.30pm, at the Institut Français, 17 Queensberry Place, South Kensington, SW7, London, Rupert Read of the University of East Anglia is giving a talk winningly entitled: Gramsci and ‘The Lord of the Rings’: Optimism and Pessimism at a Time of Crisis. The event, organised by the Forum For European Philosophy, is free and open to all without registration.
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Tuesday 10 February 2009
Verhaeghen at JBW2009
As part of Jewish Book week, on Sunday March 1st at 2pm "Paul Verhaeghen and Boyd Tonkin discuss moral choices, writing history and translating one's own work into English." Verhaeghen, as you'll recall, won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize last year with "his extraordinary novel Omega Minor, an exploration of the world of Nazis and Neo-Nazis alike, the destructive logics of The Holocaust and the Bomb, truths that kill and lies that keep alive, passionate love and devouring lust. "
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Monday 19 January 2009
Emil Hakl in London
Emil Hakl will be in London this week to present his novel Of Kids & Parents. The author will appear at the following two venues accompanied by his translator Marek Tomin:
Thursday, Jan. 22, 6:30 p.m.
Borders Books and Music
122 Charing Cross Road
London WC2H 0JR
T: 0207 379 8877
Sponsored by the Czech Centre, refreshments provided. For more info go here.
Friday, Jan. 23, 7 p.m.
Calder Bookshop
51 The Cut
London SE1 8LF
Tel. 0207 620 2900
Both events are free and all are welcome.
For more about the novel, take a look at the Twisted Spoon website. For an author profile, see the Prague Post.
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Wednesday 07 January 2009
Tate Declaration on Inauthenticity
On Saturday 17th January 2009 (16.30–18.00), INS General Secretary Tom McCarthy and INS Chief Philosopher Simon Critchley will deliver the INS Joint Statement on Inauthenticity:
The International Necronautical Society (INS) is an alliance of writers, artists and philosophers. In The Tate Declaration, INS Chief Philosopher Simon Critchley and General Secretary Tom McCarthy attack the self-serving ideology of 'authenticity' that pervades contemporary western culture, proposing instead a practice of radical inauthenticity (more...)
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Monday 01 December 2008
Olivier Messiaen centenary
Alex Ross on upcoming Messiaen fun:
With the centenary of Olivier Messiaen drawing nigh, here are some additions to my Messiaen 100 post of some weeks back. First, the DG label is releasing a mammoth, thirty-two-CD Complete Edition of the Maître's works, with authoritative performances by the likes of Olivier Latry, Roger Muraro, Pierre Boulez, Myung-Whun Chung, and Kent Nagano (his great recording of Saint François d'Assise). Also, I earlier neglected to note that the Cleveland Museum of Art is offering a strong cluster of events over the next several weeks... At Southbank in London, the unstoppable Boulez will lead a Messiaen concert on Dec. 10 and a Carter concert on Dec. 11, including something of his own on each night for the sake of variety — or, perhaps, continuity (more...)
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Wednesday 08 October 2008
Clarity or Death! launch
Tomorrow is National Poetry Day. I suggest you all stay at home and read Wallace Stevens.
If you do happen to venture out into the mean streets tomorrow and are anywhere near Manchester then you should know that Clarity or Death!, a new collection of poems by Geoffrey Hill-expert Jeffrey Wainwright (author of the excellent and very useful introduction to poetry Poetry: the Basics and the very fine Acceptable Words: Essays on the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill), is being launched, Thursday 9th October at 6.30pm, in Lecture Theatre 7, Geoffrey Manton Building, Manchester Metropolitan University. (The event is free, introduced by our pal Michael Schmidt, but for more information please email: j.draper@mmu.ac.uk.)
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Tuesday 07 October 2008
Frankenstein Day at the Bodleian Library
Short notice, I know (this is happening, erm, today):
A special one-day event will celebrate the launch of The Original Frankenstein, the latest Bodleian Library publication. Frankenstein Day at the Bodleian Library will take place on 7 October 2008. Events include: a special display of Mary Shelley's original manuscripts; a lecture by Charles E. Robinson, the author of the new edition and a book launch with Brian Aldiss as guest speaker (more...)
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Friday 03 October 2008
Wittgenstein talk
Next Thursday (9th October) at 7pm at the Institut Français, 17 Queensberry Place, South Kensington, SW7, London, Daniel D. Hutto, Professor of Philosophical Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, is giving a talk entitled: Wittgenstein: The End of Philosophy?
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Thursday 02 October 2008
Alasdair Gray in conversation with Tom McCarthy
Writer and artist Alasdair Gray will be in conversation with novelist and artist Tom McCarthy (3pm Friday 17th October) as part of the Frieze Talks 2008. (Thanks Rowan.)
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Tuesday 01 July 2008
The Best of the Booker
I'm talking at the London Literature Festival this coming Saturday:
To celebrate the shortlist for The Best of the Booker Prize, our distinguished panel of writers champion the novel they think should win. Featuring Edna O’Brien on JG Farrell’s The Siege of Krishnapur, Kamila Shamsie on Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children, Peter Kemp on Pat Barker’s The Ghost Road and Mark Thwaite on JM Coetzee’s Disgrace. Other guests discuss Nadine Gordimer’s TheConservationist and Peter Carey’s Oscar and Lucinda. The panel read short extracts from the books, followed by their own critical appraisal. At the end of the evening the audience are asked to cast their vote.
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Tuesday 03 June 2008
Who is the new avant-garde?
Tonight, as part of the 1968 and its Legacies season: An evening celebrating Dalkey Archive’s classic avant-garde books, and discovering which writers carry the flame today. Speakers include: Amanda Michalopoulou, Deborah Levy, Alain Arias-Misson, Karen Moller, Jasia Reichardt, Tom McCarthy; and readings will range from Ann Quin, Henry Green, Stefan & Franciszka Themerson to Djuna Barnes and Claude Simon doors open 7pm. Event at The Horse Hospital, Colonnade, Bloomsbury, London WC1N 1HX (tickets: £3).
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Tuesday 20 May 2008
Where are all the Radical Thinkers?
Interesting event tonight at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, London, 7:30pm (tickets are £12)
Our leading thinkers discuss the history and future of radical thought at this centrepiece event in the Southbank series All Power to the Imagination. After the events of 1968 there was a dramatic rise in the popularity of radical theory, but in the 21st century it seems to be on the wane – is it still useful? Has its utopianism been found lacking after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of neo-liberalism? Where is the next generation of radical thinkers? A distinguished panel of authors from Verso’s acclaimed Radical Thinkers series discuss the context in which radical thought evolved in the 1960s and debate its future.
Panellists are: Peter Dews author of Logics of Disintegration: Poststructuralist Thought and the Claims of Critical Theory; Mark Kurlansky author of 1968: The Year that Rocked the World; Ernesto Laclau author of On Populist Reason; Jacqueline Rose author of Sexuality in the Field of Vision; and Göran Therborn author of What Does the Ruling Class Do When it Rules?. The event is chaired by Patrick Wright author of Iron Curtain: From Stage to Cold War.
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Tags: events, politics
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Monday 07 April 2008
London Book Fair
It is The London Book Fair next week (April 14th-16th). I'll be going down to meet and greet folk with my Book Depository hat on. And I'll be speaking at an English PEN event on the Tuesday afternoon. I'm not exactly sure of the details of the talk yet -- I'll let you know as soon as I have them.
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Tuesday 01 April 2008
Back from Oxford
I'm back from Oxford and from speaking at the Oxford Literary Festival. Busy day yesterday what with my Today programme appearance and all! If the warm and generous comments left on the blog are anything to go by the talks have gone down pretty well. Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to leave a comment.
And a big welcome to everybody who has just come across ReadySteadyBook ... I hope you enjoy looking around the site.
If you want to read more about last night's Blogging the Classics debate, reports from the OLF can be found at the Times, Other Stories, Eve's Alexandria and Torque Control.
Some of these reports have photographs. Yes, I do look fat. Yes, the stripey jumper was probably a bad idea!
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Monday 31 March 2008
Today Today and the Oxford Literary Festival
I was on the BBC Radio 4's Today programme this morning (should you wish, you can "listen again")! I was on at about 8:20 am, talking about blogging...
I had lots to say, of course, but didn't really get the chance to say as much as I would've liked. I wanted to talk a bit about my work at The Book Depository, I wanted to mention BritLitBlogs, I wanted to say how fab This Space is ... but I never really got a chance.
Never mind: I'll be going over the same ground at length again this evening at the Oxford Literary Festival where dovegreyreader and I will be discussing Blogging the Classics with John Mullan and John Carey.
If you get a chance to come along, do come and say hello afterwards!
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Monday 17 March 2008
Žižek: The Leeds Lecture
Tomorrow, Slavoj Žižek is talking at the University of Leeds on the The (Mis)uses of Violence (details here).
I'm reliably informed that: "attendance is free, free car parking is available and everyone is welcome!" Which is nice.
Update: the Leeds website isn't entirely clear on this, but I've been assured that this event is fully open to the public. Yay!
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Tags: events, philosophy
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Tuesday 23 October 2007
Halloween Horrors
Short notice, I know, but tonight at 7pm at The Salt Museum (162 London Road, Northwich, Cheshire, CW9 8AB) -- Halloween Horrors: An evening of readings from Phobic: Modern Horror Stories with Nicholas Royle, Conrad Williams and & Emma Unsworth. Admission is £3 (on sale at the door; redeemable against the price of the book).
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Tuesday 02 October 2007
Fiction in Translation
Lisa Appignanesi, prize-winning novelist (The Memory Man), translator (The Year is '42, with John Berger), writer (Losing the Dead) and Deputy President of English PEN talks to two acclaimed translators about their recent work: Len Rix (Pushkin Press) is the translator of Hungarian novelist Antal Szerb (Journey by Moonlight, The Pendragon Legend and Oliver VII); and Magda Szabó (The Door). Patrick Camiller (Dalkey Archive) is the translator of contemporary Romanian novelist Dumitru Tsepeneag (Vain Art of the Fugue). The event is on Wednesday 24th October at 7pm (tickets £3, available in person or on 7794 1098) at Waterstone's, 68-69 Hampstead High St, London.
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Monday 24 September 2007
Antal Szerb event
Tomorrow night (Tuesday 25th September) at 7pm at the Calder Bookshop (51 The Cut, London, SE1 8LF) Pushkin Press are hosting a talk by "acclaimed novelist Paul Bailey and award-winning Hungarian translator Len Rix, about the work of twentieth-century Hungarian master novelist Antal Szerb." This in celebration of the newly published Oliver VII.
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Tuesday 05 June 2007
London Lit Plus
"London Lit Plus (LL+) is an open festival, which means anyone can participate, and anyone can hold an event. All you have to do to be included is to submit your event, and we’ll add it to the list on this website. We want to showcase all the wonderful literary goings-on in London that we can in a two-week period.
The only conditions for entry are that it must be literary, it must be within the M25, and it must be taking place between the 29th of June and the 13th of July 2007.
LL+ was started by a loose coalition of literary types, including, but not limited to, 3:AM Magazine, Scarecrow, Social Disease Publishing and booktwo.org, with the simple aim of creating a non-commercial festival without an agenda, programmed by the people involved, to showcase the myriad of literary events that happen every week in London, but are frequently overlooked."
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Thursday 24 May 2007
Rourke reads with Litt
Lee "Scarecrow" Rourke is reading with Toby Litt this evening in Big London. More information via 3:AM.
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Thursday 19 April 2007
McCarthy and Dickinson at the BFI
Tom McCarthy has dropped me a line to tell me about an event he is involved in at the London-based British Film Institute this evening (starting at the very specific time of twenty to seven!):
What is the cultural logic of repetition? Is repetition the same as re-enactment? What role does trauma play in all this? Are these questions, by their very nature, inherently political?
Writer Tom McCarthy, whose novel Remainder sees an obsessed Everyman re-enact increasingly violent situations in a bid for 'authenticity', and artist Rod Dickinson, known for his large-scale re-enactments of the sermons of cult leader Jim Jones and the Obedience to Authority experiment of psychologist Stanley Milgram, discuss these issues with each other at the BFI, London. (18:40, £5, £4 concs).
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Friday 13 April 2007
Next week at the LBF
I doubt there'll be very much from me here until about Wednesday. On Monday and Tuesday of next week I'll be down in our great metropolis attending the London Book Fair ("one of the world’s leading forums for the business of publishing" so it says, but actually quite a ball-achingly dull, if seemingly necessary, trade jamboree). Principally, I'll be there with my Book Depository hat on, but if anyone wants to meet for a cuppa, drop me an email, and I'll see if we can't arrange something.
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Tuesday 20 March 2007
Alice Oswald Reading
Short notice I know, but this evening at 6pm, in Lecture Theatre 6 of the Geoffrey Manton Building, at MMU, there is going to be an Alice Oswald reading.
Alice is the author of Woods etc. and Dart. She is a past recipient of the Forward Poetry Prize and The Eric Gregory Award, and has been short-listed for the T.S. Elliot Prize. She was named one of the Poetry Book Society's Next Generation poets in 2004. This event is hosted by the Writing School, is open to the public, and is free of charge to students and staff of MMU, £5 (£3 concessions) to the rest of us.
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Friday 16 March 2007
Josipovici talk
I attended a fascinating, wonderful, incisive (just think very positive adjectives!) talk by Gabriel Josipovici on Wednesday evening -- entitled Whatever happened to modernism? -- at the Commonwealth Institute, Russell Square, Big London. And I wasn't the only one: excellent report on the evening from Ellis Sharp and also from Steve at This-Space.
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Wednesday 07 March 2007
Josipovici lecture
Gabriel Josipovici will be giving this year's James Coffin memorial Lecture, sponsored by the Institute of German and Romance Studies. His subject is "What Ever Happened To Modernism?" The lecture takes place next Wednesday, 14th March, and starts at 6.00 pm. It is taking place in the Institute of Commonwealth Studies (28 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DS). The lecture will be followed by a reception. All are welcome, and admission is free, but please let igrs@sas.ac.uk if you would like to attend.
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Thursday 08 February 2007
Tribute to Thomas Bernhard at KGB
On Sunday, February 18th at the KGB bar in New York there is going to be a tribute to the fiction of Austrian novelist, playwright and poet Thomas Bernhard (1931-1989). Readers will include poet Wayne Koestenbaum, Ben The Age of Wire and String Marcus and Dale Hatchet Jobs Peck. Needless to say, I shall not be there, but rather will be tucked up by the fire here in snowy Stockport, perhaps vicariously joining in by reading Jonathan Long's The Novels of Thomas Bernhard.
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Friday 26 January 2007
Pinter's People
A play featuring sketches of fourteen of Harold Pinter's works opens at London's Haymarket Theatre next week. There are pictures over on the BBC's Today website.
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Thursday 18 January 2007
Welton and Chase: no go!
Announcement: "Due to adverse weather conditions, the Geoffrey Manton Building is being evacuated on orders from the Vice Chancellor and will be closed from 4.30pm today. Please note that, as a result of this, tonight's reading event (Matthew Welton and Linda Chase) is cancelled. Apologies for any inconvenience caused."
We're battening down the hatches here in grey old Stockport, awaitin' the storm to arrive with some trepidation. Trepidation, and tea!
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Monday 15 January 2007
Beckett's Happy Days at the National
A production of Beckett’s Happy Days opens at the National Theatre, London, on the 18th January. The National have written to me saying:
We are very keen for Beckett enthusiasts to attend the preview performances in order for them to continue discussions about the production. We are therefore offering a great ticket deal for these enthusiasts for the 18 – 23 Jan whereby they can claim best available seats for £15.
To take advantage of the offer, you just need to quote "Friends of Beckett" when calling the box office (020 7452 3000).
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Tuesday 09 January 2007
Trollope anyone?
You know, I've never read anything by Anthony Trollope. I should probably remedy that soon. Anyway, if you fancy a bit of theatre, you can have "an evening with one of Britain's most loved and most prolific authors, Anthony Trollope. Edward Fox takes on the mantle of the novellist and brings alive some of his most loved characters for an evening no fan of Trollope's work will ever forget." The tour starts at Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, on the 10th January, and moves around the South of England until it arrives at Marine Theatre, Dorset on the 24th March.
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Monday 08 January 2007
Jewish Book Week 2007
The programme for Jewish Book Week 2007 is now online. Our pal Michael Rosen is up on the first Sunday (25th February), and the week ends on Sunday 4th March with Gabriel Josipovici in conversation with Bryan Cheyette.
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Monday 04 December 2006
Meet the authors, meet the poets
Next year's Thursday evening reading events at MMU (Meet the authors, meet the poets) has been announced. All the events are hosted by the Writing School and are open to the public. A selection of books will be available to buy from our special Blackwell’s stall before each event begins. Admission is £5.00 (£3.00 concessions; free to students and staff of MMU). The evenings are held in Lecture Theatre 6, Geoffrey Manton Building (opposite the Commonwealth Aquatics Centre on Oxford Road, Manchester city centre) at 6.30 pm.
14th December: Sarah Hall
11th January: Owen Sheers
25th January: Jean Sprackland
1st February: Trevor Hoyle
8th February: Simon Armitage
15th February: Rosie Bailey and U.A. Fanthorpe
22nd February: Matthew Hollis
1st March: Carol Rumens
8th March: Livi Michael
15th March: Martyn Bedford
22nd March: Jackie Roy and Jeffrey Wainwright
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Thursday 16 November 2006
Elizabeth Bishop Celebration
To celebrate the (UK) publication of Edgar Allan Poe & the Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments, edited by Alice Quinn (Carcanet), there will be an Elizabeth Bishop Celebration on Friday 24th November (in Manchester Central Library, Committee Room 2nd floor 1-2pm -- the event is free).
Michael Schmidt will talk about Bishop and her work, there will be audio recordings of Bishop reading, and Manchester writers (like me!), students and fans of her work will contribute by reading some of her poems aloud to the gathered masses.
I was recently sent Art and Memory in the Work of Elizabeth Bishop by Jonathan Ellis (Ashgate), but I've not had a chance to look at it. The publisher reckons:
Jonathan Ellis offers evidence for a redirection in Bishop studies toward a more thorough scrutiny of the links between Bishop's art and life. The book is less concerned with the details of what actually happened to Bishop than with the ways in which she refracted key events into writing: both personal, unpublished material as well as stories, poems, and paintings. Thus, Ellis challenges Bishop's reputation as either a strictly impersonal or personal writer and repositions her poetry between the Modernists on the one hand and the Confessionals on the other.
Although Elizabeth Bishop was born and died in Massachusetts, she lived a life more bohemian and varied than that of almost all of her contemporaries, a fact masked by the tendency of biographers and critics to focus on Bishop's life in the United States. Drawing on published works and unpublished material overlooked by many critics, Ellis gives equal attention to the influence of Bishop's Canadian upbringing on her art and to the shifts in her aesthetic and personal tastes that took place during Bishop's residence in Brazil during the 1950s and 1960s. By bringing together the whole of Bishop's work, this book opens a welcome new direction in Bishop studies specifically, and in the study of women poets generally.
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Wednesday 15 November 2006
Folkestone Literary Festival nuclear debate
The Folkestone Literary Festival started a few days ago and goes on until this coming Saturday. On that day, November 18th, the last event is Debating Nuclear Energy: Solution or Setback?: Martin Empson and Malcolm Grimston. Martin, campaigning journalist and member of the Socialist Workers’ Party, recently reviewed George Monbiot's Heat on RSB, Grimston is a Member of the Atomic Energy Authority and Senior Research Fellow at Chatham House.
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Thursday 02 November 2006
Fisher and McCarthy events tonight
Two wee reminders ... as I mentioned on Monday, the poet Roy Fisher is reading at Manchester Metropolitan University (in the Geoffrey Manton Building, on Oxford Road, Manchester, opposite the Aquatics Centre; £5/£3 concessions) tonight at 6.30pm.
And Tom McCarthy (worth checking-out is Tom's recent talk on Trocchi) will be reading from and discussing Remainder with Simon Glendinning of the Forum for European Philosophy at Borders, 120 Charing Cross Road, London also tonight at 6.30pm. This event is free.
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Monday 30 October 2006
Roy Fisher reading
Jeffrey Wainwright (author of the excellent Acceptable Words: Essays on the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill) writes to tell me that Roy Fisher is reading at Manchester Metropolitan University (in the Geoffrey Manton Building, on Oxford Road, Manchester, opposite the Aquatics Centre; £5/£3 concessions) this Thursday coming at 6.30pm:
Roy Fisher was born in Birmingham in 1930 and is not only one of England’s senior poets but one of the very best. He has published many books of poetry in a wide variety of forms and formats. His work includes major long poems such Wonders of Obligation and the epic-scale works A Furnace and City. His interests and influences range through American modernism, painting and jazz – he has been a professional jazz pianist – and his myriad subject-matter includes the subtlest of transitory perceptions, the post-industrial world and the foibles of the contemporary arts scene. In all his topics and styles he is witty and acute. Asked to describe his perfect reader he replied: "she would be a woman who would nose around the back of a row of lockup garages to see what she could see, without making a song and dance about it". His collected poems The Long and the Short of It: Poems 1955-2005 is published by Bloodaxe Books. This reading, his first in the North-West for many years, will be a major occasion.
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Wednesday 11 October 2006
Thursday night is Trocchi night
The good folks over at 3:AM are organising a tribute to Scottish almost-Situationist Alexander Trocchi (author of, amongst other things, Young Adam and Cain's Book; for more see A Life in Pieces: Reflections on Alexander Trocchi).
White calves, black ski-trousers will be held at The Three Kings pub, Clerkenwell Close, London EC1 (Farringdon) at 7.30pm this Thursday. RSB interviewees Tom McCathy and Stewart Home will both be in attendance. Should be a good night.
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Tuesday 10 October 2006
Rosi Braidotti talk
Ooh, goodness, lots of signposting from me today. Well, anyway, this looks interesting (and I can't go!): from the Forum for European Philosophy on Thursday 12th October (6.30-8.00pm) at Borders, 120 Charing Cross Road, WC2, London, Rosi Braidotti (Distinguished Professor in the Humanities, Utrecht University) is to give a talk entitled The Ethical Accountability of Nomadic Subjects. On Thursday 2nd November RSB interviewee Tom McCarthy takes the stand, same time at the same venue, in the next Borderlines event.
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Tuesday 10 October 2006
Manchester Festival of Palestinian Literature
As part of the of the Manchester Literature Festival (which starts on Thursday, the William Boyd gig looking like that day's highlight), or running parallel with it (I'm not quite sure!), is the Manchester Festival of Palestinian Literature: "the UK’s first-ever festival of Palestinian literature in English translation."
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Friday 29 September 2006
TLS talk on GBS at NPG
News in from the TLS:
The Times Literary Supplement (TLS) today announces its next talk on famous names in literature, as a part of the third in a series of talks celebrating the National Portrait Gallery’s 150th Anniversary. On Thursday, October 5 at 7pm, at the National Portrait Gallery, Michael Holroyd, and Roy Foster will lead a discussion on George Bernard Shaw to commemorate the birth – also 150 years ago – of the this world-famous playwright and socialist, George Bernard Shaw. Holroyd, prize-winning biographer and Foster, Professor of Irish History at Oxford University, will discuss Shaw’s provocative legacy.
I'm told that there is still plenty of availability and tickets can be obtained at the door on the night of the event or in advance by telephoning 020 7306 0055 and asking for The Ticket Desk.
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Thursday 28 September 2006
Libertine Magazine launch
From Buzzwords (and also Literature North West):
Libertine Magazine launches tomorrow at Manchester's Central Library (6pm/free entry and wine). It is "dedicated solely to poetry, lyrics and the liberation of the language that they use". The first issue includes an interview with Carol Ann Duffy in which she discusses Mozart, Madonna and Lennon/McCartney. Guillemots frontman Fyfe Dangerfield talks about Kerouac, Lewis Carroll and his own poetry. All that as well as "great features exploring the inspiration that great names of music and literature have on each other, plus a wide variety of excellent and original brand new poetry and song lyrics submitted from around the world".
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Thursday 21 September 2006
Seeds of Peace event
Levi Asher on Monday night's Seeds of Peace benefit reading:
I attended an outstanding group reading last night at the McNally Robinson bookstore in Soho [NYC]. The theme was Israeli-Palestinian dialogue, and the event was sponsored by a group called Seeds of Peace. The event began with a bang when Leora Skolkin-Smith read a surprising personal document, a passionate love letter an anonymous Muslim teenager in Beirut had written to her Jerusalemite Jewish mother in the 1930's. These readers were intent on breaking down the idea that Jews and Muslims cannot co-exist, and one touching, revealing story after another was offered ...
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Friday 08 September 2006
Dante fun in Florence
Russian, American and Italian poets and artists will convene in Florence from 15-17th November to discuss Dante's Divine Comedy. But unless some kind benefactor steps forward, I shan't be there! Organised by the Fondazione Romualdo del Bianco, the conference will bring together international poets, artists, translators and interpreters to explore readings and re-readings of Dante's work through poetry, theatre, music and figurative and multimedia arts. Speakers include poets Robert Pinsky, Edoardo Sanguineti, Yusef Komunyakaa and film director Giancarlo Cauteruccio. Interpretations of Dante's poem will be enacted at the recently restored House of Dante Alighieri Museum in the heart of Florence during the three-day conference. Visit florence-expo.com or email info@fondazione-delbianco.org.
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Thursday 07 September 2006
Today in Manchester
Very short notice I know, but today, between 1-2pm, in the Committee Room, 2nd Floor, Manchester Central Library (in partnership with Bloodaxe) there is a free poetry reading featuring Clare Shaw and Jackie Kay.
I won't be at the poetry, but tonight I will be over at Manchester's Common bar, attending the midweek Licktronica event, where the superb Helios will be playing live. Helios's new CD Eingya is gorgeous, wonderful, fabulous ... As is just about everything else on the peerless Type label.
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Wednesday 30 August 2006
Israel, Palestine and Lebanon: benefit reading
News from good friend of RSB Leora Skolkin-Smith:
In response to the current crisis in Israel, Palestine and Lebanon, a group of authors have organized a benefit reading, with donations and book sale profits to go to Seeds of Peace, a non-profit which brings together teenagers from conflict zones, especially the Middle East, to teach skills aimed at advancing reconciliation. The reading will be held September 18th at McNally Robinson Booksellers, 50 Prince Street, New York, 7 pm. Fifteen authors will read in all, and the current list includes: Diana Abu-Jaber, David Gates, Masha Hamilton, Natalya Handal, Binnie Kirshenbaum, Bernie McFadden, Wendy Orange, Evelyn Shakir, Joan Silber, Leora Skolkin-Smith, Cathy Sultan, and Katharine Weber. Grace Paley and Robb Forman Dew are helping organize the event, and Skolkin-Smith, whose novel, Edges: O Israel, O Palestine, was published by Paley's Glad Day Books, will serve as committee chair and MC. Sue O'Doherty, writer, and clinical psychologist in NYC, is head of the organizing committee.
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Wednesday 16 August 2006
Value this man
Blogging here on RSB will recommence this coming weekend, or early next week. In the meantime, London-based readers might want to know about this (via Through A Glass Darkly):
Value This Man: the work of B.S. Johnson is scheduled for the evening of Thursday August 17 and will feature Jonathan Coe, Paul Tickell and David Quantick in conversation, as well as other special guests and possibly even some screenings. It all takes place from 7.30pm, upstairs at The Crown Tavern, 43 Clerkenwell Green, London EC1. The entry fee is £2.00.
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Tuesday 25 July 2006
Interview marathon
Serpentine Gallery curator Hans Ulrich Obrist and architect Rem Koolhaas are organising a live 24-hour interview marathon from 6pm on July 28th to 6pm July 29th, interrogating a line-up of artists, writers, philosophers and whatever that are meant to represent a cultural snapshot of London. The list of interviewees includes Ken Adam, Tariq Ali, Damien Hirst, Doris Lessing and Tom McCarthy.
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Tuesday 27 June 2006
Poets of the New York School
I attended a wonderful lecture last night, given by Michael Schmidt on Coventry's finest son, the poet Philip Larkin. I'm not a huge fan of Larkin, but Michael did a wonderful job at almost persuading me to reread him properly. Next Monday (3rd July), Michael will be giving another lecture, this time on the Poets of the New York School (see the Carcanet anthologies The New York Poets (John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler) and New York Poets II: from Edwin Denby to Bernadette Mayer). The lecture will take place at the Tai Chi Village Hall (behind the house at 163 Palatine Road, Manchester, UK; £7, £5 concessions). To reserve places, email Linda Chase.
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Monday 08 May 2006
Chorlton Arts Festival
From Friday 19th to Sunday 28th May it is the 5th Chorlton Arts Festival:
This year brings the biggest programme to date, with over 80 performances, in over 40 different venues, over 8 days. There is everything you could wish for: dance, drama, music, poetry, film, art exhibitions, the arts in schools programme, and the annual arts trail on the meadows of Chorlton Ees.
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Wednesday 26 April 2006
Chernobyl
Twenty years after the Chernobyl disaster, Belarussian writer Svetlana Alexievich, author of Voices from Chernobyl, talks to Sonja Zekri (over at Sign and Sight) about the new face of evil and the lessons to be learned from the reactor catastrophe:
Svetlana Alexievich is obsessed by Chernobyl. For years she has travelled to the "zone", the radioactive area, talking with firemen and soldiers, with "liquidators" who cleared out the radioactive rubble from the ruins of the power plant, with survivors and people who have returned to their homes. Her findings are collected in a book, Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster. It is an echolocation of the catastrophe. Svetlana Alexievich, who was born in Ukraine and grew up in Belarus, lives in Sweden. We have yet to understand Chernobyl, she says. It is a foreign text.
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Tuesday 25 April 2006
Marx and Philosophy Annual Conference
This year's Marx and Philosophy Society Annual Conference kicks off at 10.30 on Saturday 27th May (£10 waged, £5 unwaged, payable at the door; Room 728, Institute of Education, University of London, 20 Bedford Way, London WC1). Speakers include Bob Cannon (Capitalism, Fetishism and Modernity), Drew Milne (Michel Henry's Marx) and Mark Neocleous (The Politics and Philosophy of Redemption: Marxism, National Socialism, and the Dead). To reserve a place in advance please email Martin McIvor.
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Tuesday 18 April 2006
The Romanian
Next month, 3:AM is helping to launch Bruce Benderson's The Romanian (published by London-based Snow Books), the first non-French novel to win the Prix de Flore ("Le prix de Flore, du nom du célèbre café de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, a été créé en 1994. Il s'est donné pour mission de couronner un jeune auteur au talent prometteur."). The UK launch is on May 3rd at 7.30pm at The Horse Hospital, London WC1N 1HX.
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Thursday 13 April 2006
Beckett birthday
Fathoms from Anywhere, an online Beckett exhibition, went live today because today, of course, is the hundred year anniversary of Big Sam's birth. I'll be working on the RSB Samuel Beckett minisite, if I get a moment, over the weekend.
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Tuesday 11 April 2006
Through A Glass Darkly
A reminder to the London-based: Through A Glass Darkly, a joint reading from the folks at 3:AM, Scarecrow and the Sohemians, will take place this Thursday in the upstairs room of The Wheatsheaf, 24 Rathbone Place, London W1, starting at 7.30pm. Its free.
3:AM have just published their list of the 50 Least Influential People in Publishing. I am in the enviable position of being both in 3:AM's list and in the Observer list they are rightly taking the piss out of. Surely, then, I win!
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Tuesday 04 April 2006
Arno Schmidt exhibit
The Literary Saloon tells of an Arno Schmidt exhibition at the Schiller-Nationalmuseum in Germany. Devoted, obviously, to none other than Arno Schmidt. Who hell he!? Well, the complete-review's own Arno Schmidt page is a very good place to start to find out more. And, whilst you are browsing the second issue of the Green Integer Review, you could pop into the main Green Integer site and look up Schmidt's Radio Dialogs I, Radio Dialogs II and The School for Atheists.
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Monday 27 March 2006
Parenthesis
This Thursday, 30th March, between 1-2pm, (when surely most good folk are locked in offices?) at Manchester Central Library (in the second floor reception room), Comma Press are launching Parenthesis "a new generation in short fiction ... a showcase for emerging talent in UK short fiction." It's free, refreshments will be provided, and there will be readings by Anna Ball, Adam Marek, Alistair Herbert and L.E. Yates.
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Thursday 16 March 2006
Jeanette Winterson in Manchester
Jeanette Winterson, author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, The Passion, The Powerbook and (most recently) Weight, will be reading, talking and answering questions at Manchester Metropolitan University at 6pm on Wednesday 22nd March. This event, which is free and open to the public, is hosted by the MMU Writing School. The reading will take place in Lecture Theatre 7, on the ground floor of the Geoffrey Manton Building (directly opposite the Manchester Aquatics Centre on Oxford Road). For further details about this event, contact Andrew Biswell, the Academic Director of the Writing School.
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Thursday 16 March 2006
Weinberger readings
The Berlin-based Peter Weiss Foundation for Arts and Politics based has sent out an appeal to commit the 20th of March (the third anniversary of the beginning of the war in Iraq) as an Anniversary of the Political Lie. In support of this, public readings of Eliot Weinberger’s What I Heard About Iraq will be performed across the world.
The text is a collage of the statements made by American administration officials and their allies leading up to the war, and then, after the war began, of these same officials, as well as American soldiers and ordinary Iraqi citizens. It is a history of the Iraq war in "soundbites," from 1992 to January 2005. After its publication in the London Review of Books, the text was the most-visited article ever on the magazine's website, and was reproduced or linked on some 100,000 other websites.
The London reading will be held at the London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place, London WC1, with Terry Jones, David Calder, Jenny Diski, Susan Wooldridge, Andy de la Tour and Tariq Ali. It starts at 7pm, wine will be served, it's free entry, but you will need to reserve a seat (call 020 7269 9030).
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Tuesday 07 March 2006
Fun at the LBF
I've been to the London Book Fair: horrid; massive; corporate; bonkers. I now need to sleep. Tomorrow, I shall blog. Chad Post has done so already.
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Thursday 02 March 2006
Chandos is Shakespeare. Maybe.
According to a report in the Guardian this morning, "after three and a half years' research, and the detailed examination of six paintings, the National Portrait Gallery has concluded that the so-called Chandos portrait shows the true face of Shakespeare - probably."
The Searching for Shakespeare exhibition at the Wolfson Gallery (part of the National Portrait Gallery) runs from today until the 29 May 2006 and features six portraits of the Bard, including the Chandos portrait which is deemed to have the strongest claim to verisimilitude.
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Tuesday 28 February 2006
Split-Lit
The Split-Lit festival ("Celebrating Women's Writing") starts Thursday 2nd March at the oh! art centre, Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, E2 and other London venues (via Jai):
This highly accessible literary festival explores issues and ideas with a diverse international line-up of novelists, journalists, broadcasters, poets, playwrights, comics, artists and musicians. Coinciding with International Women's Week the programme presents writers from across the globe ... The Festival celebrates new writing and independent publishers with writers whose imaginations will challenge and inspire and publishers who give opportunities to writers who deserve the light. The programme includes discussions and debates, readings, talks, performances, exhibitions and workshops, the International Women's Day Lunch and a rip-roaring Comedy Night.
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Monday 27 February 2006
The Railway
Hamid Ismailov was forced to flee Uzbekistan because he was regarded as having "unacceptably democratic tendencies". He came to London in 1994 and is now head of the BBC Central Asia Service. His debut novel The Railway, translated from Russian by RSB interviewee Robert Chandler, will be published by Harvill Secker on Thursday 2nd March 2006:
Set between 1900 and 1980, The Railway introduces to us the inhabitants of the small town of Gilas in Uzbekistan. Among those whose stories we hear are Mefody-Jurisprudence, the town’s alcoholic intellectual; Father Ioann, a Russian priest; Kara-Musayev the Younger, the chief of police; and Umarali-Moneybags, the old moneylender. Their colourful lives offer a unique picture of a land populated by outgoing Mullahs, incoming Bolsheviks, and a plethora of Uzbeks, Russians, Persians, Jews, Koreans, Tatars and Gypsies.
On March 8th at 5.30pm there will be a reading, with Robert and Hamid, including snacks and wine! The event is free and will be held at St Benet’s Chapel, Queen Mary College, Mile End Road, E1 4NS (Mile End tube). For more (and please RSVP): kcf19@dial.pipex.com.
On April 4th at 6.30pm Robert and Hamid will be accompanied by music from Uzbek musicians (presumably, not whilst they read). This event is also free and to be held at Leighton House, 12 Holland Park Road, W14 8LZ (High St. Kensington tube). For more (and essential to RSVP): JacksonRowlandson@randomhouse.co.uk.
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Monday 27 February 2006
March festivals
There are a fair few literary festivals happening this time of year:
The London Book Fair ("the global publishing community’s leading Spring forum for bookseller, publisher and librarian buyers and specifiers worldwide") is running March 5-7th. The LBF is a trade show, so not nearly as interesting as it thinks it is.
Bath has: The Bath Shakespeare Festival (March 6-19th) and The Bath Literature Festival (March 4-12th).
Keswick, in the Lake District, has: Words by the Water (organised by Ways With Words) (March 10-19th). I'm fairly sure, RSB interviewee Michael Schmidt is talking at some point during this event ...
Then there is the Oundle Festival of Literature (March 4-18th). The line-up includes PD James, Polly Toynbee, Sir Roy Strong, Anthony Horowitz, Louis de Bernieres and the Antonius Players, George Alagiah, Michael and Rebecca Frayn in conversation with Maya Jaggi, Wendy Cope and Joanna Trollope. I shall not be attending!
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Friday 24 February 2006
Stop the Clock
English PEN tells me about The South Bank Centre presenting Stop The Clock: Writers and the Perception of Time: "Stop the Clock questions how we read the present through our collective past. In this major series of talks on history and the perception of time, British and European writers will discuss the way contemporary writing explores these themes." They look to be an interestting series of conversations (although, for my money, a weekend indoors with Proust or Bergson would probably serve just as well). The talk, on Tuesday 7th March, with Rem Koolhaas and Cees Nooteboom looks to be the most interesting, although I'm sure Ismail Kadare, with his French translator David Bellos, and Harry Mulisch on Tuesday 28th March will be pretty good too.
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Thursday 23 February 2006
Jewish Book Week
Jewish Book Week kicks off this Saturday with David Grossman in conversation with Maya Jaggi. The rest of the programme looks full of good stuff. Realistically, I can't see me getting to much of it though: more likely is that I get over to the Huddersfield Literature Festival (March 16th to March 19th) which features Joanne Harris, Sarah Hall, Julie Myerson, George Szirtes and Paul Farley (thanks to Linda at Poets and Players for the link).
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Friday 17 February 2006
Hill reading
Manchester blogger Conscious and Verbal gets it about right when s/he says, of Geoffrey Hill's poetry reading, which Hill gave in Manchester last night, that it was, "serious, funny, heart breaking, daft. All those things." Hill is a wonderful communicator and the reading, superbly attended (two or three hundred people, I would guess), was nicely structured with Hill reading a couple of poems from each of his collections. The reading was introduced by Professor Jeffrey Wainwright whose Acceptable Words: Essays on the Poetry of Geoffrey Hill is just out from Manchester University Press. (For those afraid of poetry, Wainwright's Poetry: The Basics does the primer/intro job very nicely.)
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Thursday 16 February 2006
Geoffrey Hill in Manchester
Geoffrey Hill will read his poetry tonight at Manchester Metropolitan University at 5.30pm (Lecture Theatre 3, Geoffrey Manton Building, Rosamond Street West, Off Oxford Road, Manchester city centre). Presented by the MMU Writing School and Carcanet poet Jeffrey Wainwright, this is a rare opportunity to hear Hill read in the UK, marking the recent publication of his new collection, and recent RSB Book of the Week, Without Title (Penguin). Admission is free; no advance tickets necessary. For more information contact Jeffrey Wainwright. Hill's Selected Poems is being reissued by Penguin in June.
The complete-review Geoffrey Hill page is a good starting place to learn more about Hill (as is the Geoffrey Hill Study Centre and the The Geoffrey Hill Server):
Not a simple poet, and not for everyone, by any means. Moral, Anglican, traditional (hidebound, some might suggest), Hill can easily be off-putting. He wins us over on the strength of his verse - he has a fine ear for the English language - and the rigor to which he subjects his ideas ... His subject matter is often obscure, but there are rewards there for the reader willing to work with the text ... It is poetry that provokes thought and that lingers.
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Friday 03 February 2006
Calling Bristol
The folk at the Beyond the Book Project are asking, "Do you live in or near Bristol?" Errm, no. No I don't! Why are they asking? Well, the Beyond the Book team will be in Bristol (Avon, UK) in mid-February and are looking for readers to join their discussion groups. Online they have a questionnaire aimed at readers in the Bristol area to coincide with Bristol's Great Reading Adventure. (This year the Great Reading Adventure organisers have chosen Jules Verne's Around the World in Eighty Days as their book.)
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Thursday 26 January 2006
Suilven Recordings
"Suilven Recordings is quickly turning into one of the greatest sources for unconventional and totally unique music", so says Mouvement Nouveau ("the newest and most dynamic monthly online publication on classical and experimental music"). Daniel Patrick Quinn, Suilven Recordings supremo, says, "Me and the live band The Rough Ensemble are embarking on a debut UK tour next month, parading militarily south to the capital in two VWs and finishing up on the south coast. The Suilven Empire has so far confirmed the following dates:
- Edinburgh Henry’s Cellar Bar Monday 13th Feb
- Nottingham Maze (Forest Tavern) Tuesday 14th Feb
- Manchester (venue TBC) Wednesday 15th Feb
- Cambridge Man On The Moon Thursday 16th Feb
- London Betsey Trotwood Friday 17th Feb
- Brighton The Fortune Of War Sunday 19th Feb
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