This week’s Cardiff BookTalk is on Dr Jac Saorsa’s Like Any Other Woman an account of a project she undertook with gynaecological cancer patients. A collaboration with the women she met, Saorsa’s approach aimed to document and reveal the lived experience of diagnosis and treatment, … Continue reading Works from the Drawing Women’s Cancer project by Dr Jac Saorsa
Next week’s Cardiff BookTalk features Dr Jac Saorsa who will be discussing her book Like Any Other Woman: The Lived Experience of Gynaecological Cancer, co-authored with Rebecca Phillips. In advance of this event you can read Like Other Woman as a free e-book from Cardiff … Continue reading Like Any Other Woman – free ebook from Cardiff University Press
In this short film, made in the early stages of the Drawing Women’s Cancer project, Dr Jac Saorsa explains the premise of the project and presents some of the art. ‘This project is about experience – the profound human experience of negotiating the physical and … Continue reading Dr Jac Saorsa on the Drawing Women’s Cancer Project
Cardiff BookTalk is delighted to invite you to our second event of 2022! On Thursday 10 February we will be discussing Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange with Cardiff University’s Bill Bell, Christine L. Gengaro from Los Angeles City College, and Manchester Metropolitan University’s Andrew Biswell, … Continue reading Anthony Burgess – A Clockwork Orange
Wednesday, 19 January 2022 – The author in conversation with Gwyneth Lewis. Cardiff BookTalk is delighted to invite you to our first event of 2022. Like Any Other Woman speaks to the suffering that cancer causes, and to the profound human experience of renegotiating the … Continue reading Jac Saorsa – Like Any Other Woman
On Wednesday we’ll be discussing David Lowery’s eerie new film, The Green Knight, and its source, the anonymous medieval poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. In this interview for Vanity Fair, Lowery discusses the process of adaptating the poem for the screen. ‘The anonymous … Continue reading ‘In the screenplay I described them almost as looking like extraterrestrials…’
Another gem from the British Library blog. Here, Julian Harrison from the Medieval Literature team takes a playful look at the illustrations of the original manuscript. ‘Its full-page illustrations have a charm all of their own, even if they were once dismissed as ‘coarsely executed’. … Continue reading ‘…the Green Knight mounted on his green horse holds his severed head aloft’
The original manuscript of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is held at the British Library and a wealth of material on the poem, and on Arthurian literature in general, can be found on their blog. In this extract from the introduction to his 2009 … Continue reading ‘Not all poems are stories, but Sir Gawain and the Green Knight most certainly is’
Our talk on Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory is now available to watch on our YouTube channel, where you can now find over a year’s worth of Cardiff BookTalk. Thanks to this month’s guest speakers: Jonathan Wise offers a biographer’s perspective on the … Continue reading Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory – watch online
Critic and Arthurian enthusiast Xan Brooks comments on the intertextual adventures of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in The Guardian: ‘I like this idea that Gawain is modern, somehow ahead of his time, complicated in a way that the other knights aren’t. It helps … Continue reading ‘It needs to be nightmarish, hallucinogenic and scary’
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