'The Fool and the Physician' - an illustrated reading by Dr Andy Brown
Wednesday 29 February, 6.30-8pm
Queen's LT1, followed by wine in the Senior Common Room. Free admission.
The Centre For South West writing and The College of Humanities are pleased to invite you to join our own Dr Andy Brown to celebrate the publication of his new collection of poems The Fool and the Physician, with an illustrated reading, a glass of wine and book signing.
The poems in The Fool and the Physician centre on the figure of the Clown and the Fool. Half are based on the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch and his remarkable representations of human folly. Andy Brown will give a short reading from the book, illustrated with a slide show of Bosch's paintings.
'Lyrical precision and infinite jest, as funny and curious as it is poignant and moving.' Luke Kennard.
'The View from the Prose Factory - The future of fiction' - a talk by D.J. Taylor
Tuesday 20 March, 6.00-7.30pm
Queen's LT1, Queen's Building, £3.50 on the door or from The Phoenix ticket office 01392 667080, with wine.
D.J. Taylor is a renowned novelist and biographer. Thackerary (1999) was followed by Orwell: The Life, which won the Whitbread Biography Prize in 2003. He has written nine novels, the most recent being Derby Day (2011), At the Chime of a City Clock (2010), Ask Alice (2009) and Kept: A Victorian Mystery (2006). He is well known, also, as a critic and reviewer, writing A Vain Conceit: British Fiction in the 1980s (1989) and After the War: the Novel and England since 1945 (1993). His journalism appears in The Independent, The Guardian, The Spectator, The New Statesman and, anonymously, in Private Eye.
‘Derby Day is pitch-perfect...It's enormous fun and meticulously researched and conceived.' The Guardian
Professor Blake Morrison - reading from his own work
Thursday 22 March, 6.00-7.30pm
Queen's LT1, £3.50, with wine.
Professor Maureen Freely - a talk and reading from her work
Thursday 29 March, 6.00-7.00pm
Queen's LT1, £3.50, with wine.
The Centre For South West Writing and The College of Humanities are pleased to invite you to a public reading given by the novelist, critic and translator Professor Maureen Freely.
Professor Freely is the author of Enlightenment (2007, Marion Boyars), The Other Rebecca (1997, Bloomsbury), and Under The Vulcania (1994, Bloomsbury) among many other titles, as well as being the translator of the Nobel Prize-winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk. She reviews regularly for The Guardian, as well as for The Times, The New Statesman and The Washington Post.
'This is a brave novel. Freely...does not restrain her highly critical account of [Turkey's] modern history and culture.' The Independent
