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POETRY TOWN Spring 2006 Programme
Browning and the Dead
22nd February 2.15 pm
Kennedy Hall (Rm 1) , School of English, The Scores
Lecture: Dr Francis O’Gorman (University of Leeds)
Dr O’Gorman, Lecturer at the University of Leeds and author of many wonderful books on Victorian literature, will speak about the poet Robert Browning, a volume of whose Collected Poems he is editing, and raise spirits by conjuring the fascinating shades of Victorian literary thought about death and the afterlife.
‘Deep Shocks of Recognition’: Geoffrey Hill and Romantic Poetry
1st March 2.15 pm
The George Jack Memorial Lecture:
Kennedy Hall (Rm 1) , School of English, The Scores
Lecture: Professor Michael O’Neill (University of Durham)
This year’s George Jack Memorial Lecture is given by Professor Michael O’Neill, one of the UK’s foremost scholars of Romanticism and of modern poetry. His lecture promises to bring together these two areas of expertise in a magical and revealing marriage.
: Scotland’s Poetry Festival
16th – 19th March
Various venues around St Andrews
Fleur Adcock, John Burnside, Leontia Flynn, Kathleen Jamie, Galway Kinnell, Michael Longley, Andrew Motion, Don Paterson, Jo Shapcott, Valerie Gillies, and many more
Over 50 poets, writers, artists and musicians from 10 different countries take part in more than 60 events in one of the UK’s leading poetry festivals.
Programmes from 01592 414 714 or arts.development@fife.gov.uk
Tickets from The Byre Theatre in person or phone 01334 475 000
web site: www.stanzapoetry.org e-mail: info@stanzapoetry.org
Making a Career as a Dramatist
22nd March 2.15 pm
Kennedy Hall (Rm 1) , School of English, The Scores
Discussion: Rachel Wagstaff (Old Vic Young Writers Programme)
Rachel Wagstaff graduated from the School of English at St Andrews in 2002. Her first play, ‘The Soldier’, about the life of poet Rupert Brooke, received rave reviews at the Edinburgh Festival and led to her securing a place as one of seven ‘New Voices’, whose talents are being developed by the Old Vic, where she recently saw her play ‘Night Sky’ premiered by a star-studded cast. Come and hear her tips and reflections on launching a career as a dramatist.
Biography Masterclass
21 st April 3.30pm Dr Anne Wroe
22 nd April 9.30 am Professor Kenneth Johnston
11.30am Professor Martin Stannard
2 pm Janice Galloway
School of English
Masterclass and Discussion: Anne Wroe, Martin Stannard, Ken Johnston, Janice Galloway
In the first of an innovative series of Masterclasses in the School of English, four distinguished writers will talk about the craft of biography.
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Dr Anne Wroe, author of biographies of Pontius Pilate and Perkin Warbeck, will talk about ‘Searching for Shelley’. |
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Professor Kenneth Johnston, author of The Hidden Wordsworth, will talk on ‘Unusual Suspects: Biography of a Lost Generation’; |
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Professor Martin Stannard, biographer of Evelyn Waugh, will talk about ‘The Executor Over Your Shoulder: Waugh and Estate Management’. |
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Janice Galloway, author of the novel Clara, which recreates the life of Clara Schumann will discuss fictionalised biography. Come, pose questions, and join in the debate. |
W. B. Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, and the Experience of Italy
26 th April 2.15 pm
Kennedy Hall (Rm 1) , School of English, The Scores
Lecture: Professor Peter Vassallo (University of Malta)
Professor Vassallo, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Malta, is a specialist in the history of cultural relations between the UK and Italy and the author of books on Byron and the influence of Italian Literature. Here he turns his attention to Italy in the lives and works of two equally charismatic modernists.
Negotiating Keats: Of Coughs, Graves and Corpses
3 rd May 2.15 pm
Kennedy Hall (Rm 1) , School of English, The Scores
Lecture: Dr Christoph Ehland (Würzburg University)
Dr Ehland is Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural History at the University of Würzburg, Germany. He has interests in picaresque and Scottish fiction, and in the image of the writer at different historical moments; he has recently published a book on Lewis Grassic Gibbon. In this lecture he will discuss posthumous transformations of the image of the Romantic poet, Keats.
Creative Writing Workshops
21 February, 7 March, 11 April, 18 April 1-2pm
Poetry House (Rm 30) , The Scores
Spotlight Workshops open to all
Don’t hide your creative light under a bushel! Come and join in these free workshops, open to all, and led by talented and friendly postgraduate students on St Andrews University’s M.Litt. in Creative Writing course. No need to bring any work with you — just a pen and some paper.
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