Literary Calendar
Events for September 2014
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Owen Lowery and Poet in the City, Southbank CentreOwen Lowery and Poet in the City, Southbank Centre
September 7, 2014 @ 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Owen Lowery performs his poetry, and Poet in the City present great poetry in sign language. Lowery reads from his acclaimed book of poetry Otherwise Unchanged. He is joined by Poet in the City, who take language to new limits withThe Body Electric, a project bringing together poetry and sign. Taking words off the page and [&hellip |
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The Lives of Others: Hilary Mantel and Harriet WalterThe Lives of Others: Hilary Mantel and Harriet Walter
September 11, 2014 @ 7:30 pm
In a recent Guardian interview, the actress Harriet Walter reflected on the impossibility of ever really knowing another human being. Yet, like the novelist Hilary Mantel, she has devoted her professional life to inhabiting characters not her own, often historical ones. Walter’s notable roles include Elizabeth I, Lady Macbeth and Cleopatra, while Mantel has twice won the [&hellip |
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Cavafy with David Constantine & Louis de Bernières, Kings PlaceCavafy with David Constantine & Louis de Bernières, Kings Place
September 15, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
Poet in the City presents a celebration of the life and work of C.P. Cavafy. Exploring some of the fascinating themes arising from his poetry, from the erotic to the historic, this event will celebrate a unique poetic voice. Cavafy was widely regarded as one of the most important poets of the modern age, bringing a [&hellip |
Literary lunch with Esther Freud, First StoryLiterary lunch with Esther Freud, First Story
September 16, 2014 @ 12:00 pm - 2:30 pm
The author of eight novels, Esther Freud was born in London in 1963. As a young child she traveled through Morocco with her mother and sister, returning to England aged six. In 1979 she moved to London to study Drama, going on to work as an actress, both in theatre and television. Her first novel Hideous Kinky, was published [&hellip Tom Holland on Asian Lions, London ZooTom Holland on Asian Lions, London Zoo
September 16, 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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Laurie Lee Centenary: Valerie Grove in conversation with Geordie GreigLaurie Lee Centenary: Valerie Grove in conversation with Geordie Greig
September 25, 2014 @ 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
In 1934, a young man walked out of his native village in Gloucestershire, bound for London and eventually Spain, where he was caught up in the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. But the real story of Laurie Lee’s youth was far more romantic than the one he told in his memoirs, Cider With Rosie and As I [&hellip Antony Beever on D-Day, Soho Literary FestivalAntony Beever on D-Day, Soho Literary Festival
September 25, 2014 @ 6:00 pm
Seventy years later, 6th June remains a day etched on the national consciousness. The day we left our island to rid Europe of the Nazi menace. If ever there was a good war, it was this one. ‘We shall fight them on the beaches’ promised Churchill in 1940, but he was referring to the south coast [&hellip Craig Brown and Friends, Soho Literary FestivalCraig Brown and Friends, Soho Literary Festival
September 25, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
Craig Brown & Friends is back by popular demand, with their own One-Stop Literary Festival, including the prose and poetry of such distinguished authors as Paolo Coelho, Vivienne Westwood, Pippa Middleton and Ed Miliband. His ‘& Friends’ and partners in satirical crime this year include the journalist and author of The Potter’s HandA N Wilson, and [&hellip |
Stephen Fry on PG Wodehouse at the Soho Literary FestivalStephen Fry on PG Wodehouse at the Soho Literary Festival
September 26, 2014 @ 7:00 pm - September 27, 2014 @ 5:00 pm
Who better than Stephen Fry, the star of the definitive Nineties TV series Jeeves and Wooster, to tell us all about the nation’s greatest comic writer? Although he died nearly forty years ago, his fantastical world of aunts and the Drones Club is timelessly and relentlessly funny. He wrote more than 90 books, but was [&hellip |
Antonia Fraser talks to Mark Lawson, Soho Literary FestivalAntonia Fraser talks to Mark Lawson, Soho Literary Festival
September 27, 2014 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Acclaimed biographer and historian Antonia Fraser will be talking to Mark Lawson about her career and life with her husband, Harold Pinter, which she covered in Must you Go? Her most recent history was Perilous Question: The Drama of the Great Reform Bill 1832. The daughter of the historian Elizabeth Longford and Labour peer Frank Longford, wrote her [&hellip Ferdinand Mount and Owen Jones on the class divide, Soho Literary FestivalFerdinand Mount and Owen Jones on the class divide, Soho Literary Festival
September 27, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
Thatcher’s speech-writer and a former trade union lobbyist would appear to have nothing in common, but they do: a massive worry that British society has become more polarised than at any time since Magna Carta. Ferdinand Mount, 75, is the author of Mind the Gap and The New Few. Owen Jones, 30, is the author [&hellip Polari at the Soho Literary FestivalPolari at the Soho Literary Festival
September 27, 2014 @ 8:00 pm
Usually housed at the Southbank Centre with DJs and live entertainment, Polari returns to Soho, following last year’s brilliant performance. Described by the New York Times as ‘London’s most theatrical salon’ and by the Independent as ‘London’s peerless gay literary salon’, Polari – founded by author and journalist Paul Burston – began life in 2007. Howls of [&hellip |
Letter writing with Shaun Usher and Simon Garfield, Soho Literary FestivalLetter writing with Shaun Usher and Simon Garfield, Soho Literary Festival
September 28, 2014 @ 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm
When did you last receive a hand-written letter? How many do you receive a month compared with the avalanche of needless texts and snap emails. Something the author had made a point of setting aside proper time to write? ‘Letters have the power to grant us a larger life,’ Garfield says. ‘They reveal motivation and deepen [&hellip Jonathan Meades talks to Andrew Billen, Soho Literary FestivalJonathan Meades talks to Andrew Billen, Soho Literary Festival
September 28, 2014 @ 2:30 pm - 5:00 pm
‘My parents didn’t give me anything to rebel against,’ says Jonathan Meades in An Encyclopaedia of Myself. ‘I was denied pretty much all the normal adolescent rites. They didn’t worry about how I dressed. They liked a lot of my friends.’ According to Stephen Fry: ‘No one understands England better than Meades’, and he doesn’t [&hellip Brian Sewell talks to John Walsh, Soho Literary FestivalBrian Sewell talks to John Walsh, Soho Literary Festival
September 28, 2014 @ 3:30 pm - September 29, 2014 @ 5:00 pm
Brian Sewell is the one of the UK’s foremost art critics. Renowned for his acerbic tongue and quick wit, his disdain for contemporary art and his love of dogs, he joins the literary festival to talk about his memoirs The Outsider: Always Almost: Never Quite, and its sequel Outsider II, and most recently, his book [&hellip |
Lincoln Book Festival: Lincolnshire Lads who changed the worldLincoln Book Festival: Lincolnshire Lads who changed the world
September 29, 2014
Sarah Dry on the legacy of ISAAC NEWTON When Newton died in 1727 without a will, he left a wealth of papers that gave his followers and his family a deep sense of unease. Some of what they contained was wildly heretical and alchemically obsessed; deemed ‘unfit to be printed’, they remained largely hidden for more than seven [&hellip |
Lincoln Book Festival: The Power of Plants and GardensLincoln Book Festival: The Power of Plants and Gardens
September 30, 2014
Margaret Willes on the cottage garden – fact and fiction Margaret unearths lush gardens outside workers cottages and horticultural miracles in blackened yards, she reveals the ingenious, often devious, methods used by determined, obsessive and eccentric workers to make their drab surroundings bloom. From the fashionable rich stealing gardening ideas from the poor to the competitive alehouse [&hellip Bloomsbury Book Club with Esther FreudBloomsbury Book Club with Esther Freud
September 30, 2014 @ 6:30 pm
Esther Freud, the author of Hideous Kinky and a Granta Best of Young British author, discusses her new novel with Bloomsbury Editor-in-Chief, Alexandra Pringle. Mr Mac and Me is an exquisite historical novel about the great Glaswegian artist Charles Rennie Macintosh, based on the period of his life he spent in the village of Walberswick in Suffolk. Set on the [&hellip Forward Prizes for Poetry 2014, Southbank CentreForward Prizes for Poetry 2014, Southbank Centre
September 30, 2014 @ 7:00 pm
The annual prize-giving ceremony for the Forward Prizes for Poetry. The prestigious prizes celebrate the best of the year’s poetry, honouring exciting new voices alongside established stars. This year’s awards ceremony promises to be particularly lively, with a richly varied shortlist featuring writers united only in their skill at communicating news from elsewhere – the [&hellip |