Literary Calendar
Events for August 2014
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Strange meetings: An evening of War Poetry with Mario Petrucci, Southbank CentreStrange meetings: An evening of War Poetry with Mario Petrucci, Southbank Centre
August 6, 2014 @ 8:00 pm
Mario Petrucci guides us on an unexpected journey through the poetry of WW1 and WW2. The World Wars represent crucial turning points for our civilisation. Mario Petrucci introduces us anew to those war poets we have come to admire but also, just as poignantly, to those of immense influence who are now long forgotten. Utilising [&hellip |
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H is for Hawk: Helen Macdonald and Tim DeeH is for Hawk: Helen Macdonald and Tim Dee
August 8, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
Helen Macdonald and Tim Dee will be at the shop to talk about birds, and about writing about birds. Radio producer Tim Dee propelled himself into the front rank of British nature writing in 2009 with his remarkable birdwatching memoir The Running Sky, followed in 2013 by Four Fields. Helen Macdonald, writer, poet, naturalist, conservationist, historian and some-time falconer, has [&hellip |
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Book Slam East, York Hall Bethnal GreenBook Slam East, York Hall Bethnal Green
August 12, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
Good evening fight fans! Tonight, Book Slam heads to iconic East London boxing venue, York Hall, for the most anticipated heavyweight contest in recent memory and twelve rounds (probably) of high calibre literary sparring. In the blue corner, we have internationally renowned storyteller, one-time street brawler, drug dealer, convict, Chicago Golden Glove Champion, bull runner [&hellip Divine Comedy: Tom Pickard and Philip Terry at the LRB BookshopDivine Comedy: Tom Pickard and Philip Terry at the LRB Bookshop
August 12, 2014 @ 8:00 pm
In an exciting poetry double bill, Tom Pickard and Philip Terry will be reading from their latest works. Tom Pickard’s Hoyoot: Collected Poems and Songs was released this year from Carcanet and bears witness to a fifty-year career of lyric, narrative and satiric verse, always politically engaged and permanently open to influences from popular culture and global poetic traditions – Allen [&hellip |
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David Harsent on African Hunting Dogs, London ZooDavid Harsent on African Hunting Dogs, London Zoo
August 20, 2014 @ 6:30 pm
ZSL conservation scientists and keepers team up with leading writers to talk about the animals in ZSL London Zoo. Alongside the animals, the writers speak imaginatively about their responses to them and ZSL’s experts talk about their ecology and conservation. The audience will be able to ask questions of author, scientist and keeper and have [&hellip |
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Can’t and Won’t: An evening with Lydia DavisCan’t and Won’t: An evening with Lydia Davis
August 27, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
In a rare London appearance Lydia Davis will reading from and discussing her unique body of work. More information |
Sarah Walters at the Stylist book club, HolbornSarah Walters at the Stylist book club, Holborn
August 28, 2014 @ 6:00 pm
Sarah Walters, the acclaimed author of Tipping The Velvet and Fingersmith will be discussing her sixth novel, The Paying Guests. Set in Twenties London, it focuses on 26-year-old Frances and her widowed mother, who take in lodgers to make ends meet. When Leonard and Lillian Barber move in, Frances begins a friendship that threatens to [&hellip |
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