Forthcoming non-society events
A round-up of other literary events of interest coming up over the next couple of months.
With the success of the Jane Campion film 'Bright Star' Keats House celebrates the world of poetry in film. With poetry by Wordsworth, Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, Frost, and, of course, John Keats.
All events at Keats House are free with an admission ticket (£5/£3, under 16s free). All tickets are valid for one year.
Bestselling novelist and journalist John Lancaster rides to the rescue of all those of us who simply cannot understand the hows and whys of the credit crunch in his latest book "WHOOPS! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay".
Tickets £8, with 20% discount off the featured bookTel: 0207 224 2295
Hailed by the Swedish Academy as his ‘definitive breakthrough as a novelist’ and available for the first time in English translation, Desert (Atlantic) spans the 20th century, ranging from the North African desert to the streets of Marseilles. It is the story of the ‘last free men’ and of Europe’s colonial legacy. Le Clezio, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008, will discuss the novel and his highly acclaimed body of work over the past forty years with the critic and journalist Maya Jaggi.
Tickets £6 from 0207 269 9030 or www.lrbshop.co.uk. Free wine. Nearest Tubes: Holborn/Tott. Ct. Rd.
Chrissie Gittins reads from her two award-winning collections Now You See Me, Now You... and I Don't Want an Avocado for an Uncle. Join her also to write your own poems in a wits-about-you workshop. 7-11 years.
All events at Keats House are free with an admission ticket (£5/£3, under 16s free). All tickets are valid for one year.
ANDREW RAWNSLEY's new book "The End of the Party" has already placed him in the centre of a media storm. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and confidential conversations with those at the heart of power, Rawnsley provides the definitive account of the rise and fall of New Labour.
Tickets £8, with 20% off the featured book
Tel: 0207 224 2295
In The Master and his Emissary (Yale), Iain McGilchrist argues that left-brain thinking – categorical, precise and decontextualising – has usurped the role of the holistic, contextualising and creative right, with pernicious consequences for modern society. While his argument has its roots in neuroscience, McGilchrist is also a student of literature and philosophy, and freely accepts that this left/right divide may be less real than metaphorical (and metaphor is one of the many things which the left brain is unable to grasp).
Tickets £6 from 0207 269 9030 or www.lrbshop.co.uk. Free wine. Nearest Tubes: Holborn/Tott. Ct. Rd.
McCullin's reputation as the greatest photographer of conflict has been replaced in recent years with the image of McCullin as the great traveller. His most ambitious journey has been to explore the fringes of the Roman Empire. The result is a stunning collection of photographs, "Southern Frontiers". He will be joined in conversation by Barnaby Rogerson, author of "Last Crusade".
Tickets £8, with a 20% discount off featured book
Tel: 0207 224 2295
Julian Bell and Peter Campbell have both worked as painters and written about art – Julian Bell most recently in Mirror of the World (Thames and Hudson), Peter Campbell in At... (Hyphen Press), a collection of his contributions to the LRB. They will talk about things that painters can and can't do, in particular about the relationship painters have had to old art and the limits and opportunities that arise from the society they work in, its technology and its institutions.
Tickets £6 from 0207 269 9030 or www.lrbshop.co.uk. Free wine. Nearest Tubes: Holborn/Tott. Ct. Rd.
A UEA Reading at The Savile Club, London
Rose Tremain, a graduate of UEA, is a novelist, short story writer, radio and screenwriter. Her novels have won numerous awards including the James Tait Memorial Prize, the Prix Femina Etranger, and the Sunday Express Book of the Year. Her novel, The Road Home, won the 2008 Orange Prize for women’s fiction and her new novel Trespass is published in Spring 2010. Rose Tremain will be in conversation with Professor Jon Cook.
Booking information:
Tickets (advance booking only):
Reading with glass of wine: £10
Reading with glass of wine and dinner: £35
The Savile Club: 020 7629 5462 or secretariat@savileclub.co.uk
The Poetry Ambassadors of Keats House read a selection of yummy, good-enough-to-eat poems about glorious food.
All events at Keats House are free with an admission ticket (£5/£3, under 16s free). All tickets are valid for one year.
Celebrate April Fools Day with a chuckle of comic poems. Everything from Benjamin Zephaniah to Spike Milligan, Adrian Mitchell to Michael Rosen.
All events at Keats House are free with an admission ticket (£5/£3, under 16s free). All tickets are valid for one year.
In All That Follows (Picador), Lennie Lessing is a jazzman taking a break. His glory days seem to be behind him, his body is letting him down, and rather than continue to take on the world, he relives old gigs during solitary days at home. Then a gunman seizes hostages a short drive from his house. Set in England, 2024 and George Bush’s Texas, 2006, Crace’s tenth book is a tale of politics and love and cements his reputation as one of Britain’s finest novelists.
TICKETS £6 from 0207 269 9030 or www.lrbshop.co.uk. Free wine. Nearest Tubes: Holborn/Tott. Ct. Rd.
Alberto Manguel ("A Reader on Reading") will be speaking.
Tickets £8, with 20% off the featured book
Tel: 0207 224 2295
Shakespeare wrote the Seven Ages of Man speech for As You Like It. We celebrate Shakespeare's birthday with this poem and we explore the way other poets have used this theme of growing older.
All events at Keats House are free with an admission ticket (£5/£3, under 16s free). All tickets are valid for one year.