In this essay, written for The Guardian on the occasion of a 2008 T.S. Eliot festival at London’s Donmar Warehouse, Jeanette Winterson offers her thoughts on Eliot’s work and legacy. She talks about The Waste Land at some length and describes her first encounter with … Continue reading ‘Language is what stops the heart exploding’
The British Library blog hosts some very interestng materials relating to T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, including links to early drafts of the text and letters in which he rcords some of the circumstances of it’s composition. In this linked article, Roz Kaveney offers her … Continue reading The Waste Land: collaboration, montage and dislocation
We’ve been enjoying a recent BBC adaptation of The Waste Land, available for streaming on BBC Sounds for the next few weeks. With a cast of well-known character actors, including Maggie Steed, David Haig, Adrian Edmondson and David Calder, the production reimagines Eliot’s polyphonic verses … Continue reading He Do The Waste Land in Different Voices
Cardiff BookTalk is delighted to invite you to our event on Monday 15 August 2022, where we will be marking 100 years of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land. Celebrating the poem’s centenary with us are Dr Ruth Alison Clemens of Utrecht Univeristy, Dr Nicoletta Asciuto … Continue reading T.S. Eliot – The Waste Land
Joining us this Wednesday 29 June to discuss Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun is Dr Dominic Dean of Sussex University. Dr Dean has written about Ishiguro extensively, and we’ve found this essay available as Open Access. It principally covers Never Let Me Go, The … Continue reading ‘They built a whole lot like that in the fifties and sixties’ – Dominic Dean on Kazuo Ishiguro
Counting down to our encounter with Dr Dominic Dean and Dr Richard Rankin Russell to discuss Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun next Wednesday, here’s another classic interview from the archives. Taken from The Paris Review in 2008, Ishiguro illuminates his early life and influences … Continue reading ‘In the past, I used to think it was nicer to be as honest and open as possible, but I’ve seen the damage that this does’
Next Wednesday 29 June 2022 we’ll be joined by Dr Dominic Dean and Dr Richard Rankin Russell to explore Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro. Released to great fanfare just last year, Klara and the Sun was Ishiguro’s first book since winning the Nobel … Continue reading “This isn’t some kind of weird fantasy,” he says. “We just haven’t woken up to what is already possible today.”
On 29th June we’ll be looking at Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun. In this interview from last year, he discusses how Klara started life as an idea for a childrens picture book. He also talks about his interest in artificial intelligence and gene editing, … Continue reading Kazuo Ishiguro – The Waterstones Interview
As part of the Vogue Visionaries series, Bernardine Evaristo offers advice for writers, together with some valuable insights into her own books. Covering the writing process, as well as tips on getting published and finding your voice, Evaristo illustrates her thoughts with examples drawn from … Continue reading Bernardine Evaristo on writing
Joining us this Wednesday is Dr Deirdre Osborne, who will be helping to guide our BookTalk on Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other. Dr Osborne is a co-founder of Goldsmith’s MA Black British Literature and editor of Cambridge Companion to British Black and Asian Literature (1945-2010) (2016). Her … Continue reading Decolonise your bookshelf with Deirdre Osborne
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