Don Paterson

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Don Paterson

FromLondon Review Bookshop Podcast

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Jun 24, 2004

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Don Paterson read from his 2004 collection Landing Light (Faber), which won both the Whitbread Prize for Poetry and the T.S. Eliot prize. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Jun 24, 2004

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Listen to the latest literary events recorded at the London Review Bookshop, covering fiction, poetry, politics, music and much more.Find out about our upcoming events here: https://lrb.me/bookshopeventspod Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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The Alhambra vs the Parthenon: In one of the first events held at the Bookshop, Mary Beard and Robert Irwin squared up to each other to debate the relative greatness of two magnificent structures, the Alhambra and the Parthenon. Through their speeches and responses to audience... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Jenny Diski - Apology for the Woman Writing: Jenny Diski’s novel Apology for the Woman Writing is based on the true story of Marie de Gournay, the passionate and complex young woman who was only 18 when she was so overwhelmed by the work of Michel de Montaigne that she had to be revived with... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Alan Bennett - The History Boys: On the day following press night at the National Theatre, Alan Bennett spoke at the London Review Bookshop about his latest play, The History Boys, in which an unruly bunch of bright sixth-form boys have to deal with staff-room rivalry between, among... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Terry Castle: The Literature of Lesbianism: Terry Castle, editor of The Literature of Lesbianism: A Historical Anthology from Aristo to Stonewall, explored the emergence of and transformation of the idea of lesbianism, and how it has been collectively embellished over the last five centuries. by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Nick Davies: Flat Earth News: In Flat Earth News (Chatto & Windus), Nick Davies exposes the reality of daily life in the Fleet Street news factory and makes a passionate appeal for a return to the first principles of truth-telling journalism. He highlights the sophisticated new... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Betsy Blair - The Memory of All That: In conversation with Andrew O’Hagan, the actress and political activist Betsy Blair discusses Hollywood in the 1950s, her marriages to Gene Kelly and Karel Reisz, her tangles with the Blacklist, her adventures in Europe and the writing of her memoir... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Don Paterson: Don Paterson read from his 2004 collection Landing Light (Faber), which won both the Whitbread Prize for Poetry and the T.S. Eliot prize. by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Anne Enright - Taking Pictures: Anne Enright won the Man Booker Prize in 2007 for her novel The Gathering and commanded a full house at the London Review Bookshop on the day of publication of Taking Pictures. After confessing to her audience, ‘I can’t tell you how relieved I am not... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Mourid Barghouti: The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti has published fourteen books of poetry and the autobiographical narrative I Saw Ramallah, which Edward Said described as ‘one of the finest existential accounts of Palestinian displacement we now have’. At the... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Andrew O'Hagan - Be Near Me: Andrew O’Hagan’s third novel Be Near Me dissects the class hatreds and personal flaws of a small Scottish parish and the English priest who arrives in it. A month after its publication, O’Hagan gave an expressive and moving reading of scenes from the... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Robert Chandler - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk: Robert Chandler talks about Nikolay Leskov and reads from his newly-published translation of Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk on which the libretto of Shostakovich's opera is based. by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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David Hare - Obedience, Struggle and Revolt: David Hare’s event at the London Review Bookshop a few months after the publication of Obedience, Struggle and Revolt: Lectures on Theatre found him on fine form. Hare took the opportunity to extemporise on subjects such as why he writes for the... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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New York Poets - An Anthology: The New York School consisted of Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch and James Schuyler. To celebrate the publication of Carcanet's new anthology, its editor, Mark Ford, introduced and read selections from their work, under the auspices ... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Faber Firsts - Sarah Hall and Clare Wigfall: In conversation with journalist Claire Allfree, Sarah Hall and Clare Wigfall read from and discussed their first published work, as part of Faber & Faber’s 80th anniversary celebrations, exploring landscape, feminism, and the slippage between fact ... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Wolf Hall and Sacred Hearts - Hilary Mantel and Sarah Dunant: Published in 2009, both Sacred Hearts by Sarah Dunant and Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall feature a vast array of characters, and explore the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. The authors discussed their work, and historical fiction... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Alastair Crooke - Resistance: The Essence of the Islamist Revolution: Admitting the impossibility of condensing a complex argument into a short evening’s talk, Alastair Crooke set out to give his audience at the London Review Bookshop ‘a few ideas’ on the history of the Islamist revolution. by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Michael McClure - Beast Language: One of the original Beats (he read, aged 22, with Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder at the 1955 Six Gallery reading in San Francisco, where Ginsberg first read Howl), Michael McClure was back in London for the first time in thirty years and gave an... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Iain Sinclair - Edge of the Orison: Iain Sinclair’s Edge of the Orison retraces the poet John Clare’s Journey out of Essex. His event at the London Review Bookshop interspersed readings from the book with anecdotes and digressions on its composition, before a generous audience Q&A... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Sebastian Barry and Richard Mason - The Secret Scripture and The Lighted Rooms: On the publication date of Sebastian Barry’s Costa-winning The Secret Scripture, the London Review Bookshop paired him with Richard Mason: the elderly female protagonist of The Lighted Rooms must also deal with the unreliability of memory (and indeed... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Ma Jian and Flora Drew with Boyd Tonkin - World Literature Weekend: Ma Jian’s Beijing Coma, winner of the T. R. Fyvel Index on Censorship Award and shortlisted for the 2009 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, is a seminal novel about the Tiananmen Square protests. Gao Xingjian, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Tariq Ali - The Duel: Tariq Ali’s The Duel - Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power combines deep understanding of the country’s history with extensive firsthand research and political judgement. Ali spoke to a full house at the Bookshop on 11 September, exploring... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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London, City of Disappearances: Alongside the contemporary London of noise and celebrity is that other city: of the dead, the unvoiced, the erased. Iain Sinclair has long been fascinated by interzones, cracks, crannies, ‘lost’ biographies and myths of place. In London: City of... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Iain Sinclair - Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire: Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire is a timely excavation of London’s East End. Once an Arcadian suburb of grand houses, orchards and conservatories, Hackney declined into a zone of asylums, hospitals and dirty industry; now, the Olympics seeks to complete... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Alain Mabanckou with Helen Stevenson - World Literature Weekend 2010: The wit and energy of Congolese novelist Alain Mabanckou have been enlivening the French literary scene for many years, during which he’s won several major prizes, including the Prix Renaudot in 2006 for Mémoires de Porc-Epic. English readers can... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Benjamin Black (John Banville) - The Lemur: In his first public appearance as Benjamin Black, John Banville reads from Black’s new novel The Lemur, as well as, in his introduction and in his responses to audience questions, expanding on the perils and plus points of a split personality: his... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Hanan al-Shaykh with Esther Freud - World Literature Weekend: The leading Lebanese writer Hanan al-Shaykh was just seven years old when her mother, Kamila, sought a divorce from her father, who ran a strictly religious household. She read from and discussed her memoir The Locust and The Bird: My Mother’s Story... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Rory Stewart on International Intervention: On the day on which the hundredth British soldier was killed in Afghanistan, Rory Stewart spoke at the Bookshop about international intervention and ‘Afghanistan rhetoric and reality’. Drawing on his experience as chief executive of the Turquoise... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Janice Galloway - This Is Not About Me: Despite, she warned her audience, not reading very often in London, Janice Galloway’s readings from and discussion of her memoir-cum-novel This Is Not About Me met with an enthusiastic reception at the Bookshop. Bracketed by two short readings from the... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Ramsey Nasr and Ruth Padel - World Literature Weekend 2011: Born 1974 in Rotterdam into a Palestinian-Dutch family, Ramsey Nasr is a man of many passions, including classical music, drama, poetry and travel. As city poet of Antwerp in 2005 his appearances were attended like pop concerts. Banipal’s publication... by London Review Bookshop Podcast
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