Posts tagged with ‘Collected Words’
Being Human: A Festival of Humanities
The Being Human festival is a series of humanities events taking place across Nottingham at the end of November.
Tags: Being Human, Collected Words, Festival, how to lose and find yourself in words, humanities, literature, Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature
Film screening: ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’ (PG), with introduction by Andrew Graves
An award-winning film based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Nottingham author Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010), an honorary graduate of the University of Nottingham.
Tags: Alan Sillitoe, Andrew Graves, Collected Words, film, Karel Reisz, literature, Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Tony Richardson
CANCELLED: Castrating Rochester: John Wilmot’s manuscript poetry
This talk looks at the peculiarities of the manuscript canon of the poetry of John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647-80), and its examples in the collections at the University of Nottingham.
Tags: City of Literature, Collected Words, Dr Adam Rounce, jojn wilmot, literature, Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature, potery, reading, School of English, writing
Local author Alison Moore: Location and Landscape
In this talk, Man Booker Prize shortlisted writer of fiction, Alison Moore, will be exploring the influence of location and landscape in her novels, including a work in progress.
Tags: alison moore, City of Literature, Collected Words, fiction, literature, Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature, reading, writing
Reading Nottingham’s Unread: Republishing James Prior’s Forest Folk
First published in 1901, Prior’s pacy novel is set in Blidworth against a background of the Napoleonic Wars and Luddite riots. It lay unnoticed for many years, although DH Lawrence rated Prior’s work. In 2016, Forest Folk clawed its way into view. How will it fare in the bookshops of 2017?
Tags: City of Literature, Collected Words, DH Lawrence, DH Lawrence Research Centre, Forest Folk, James Prior, literature, Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature, reading, tony simpson, writing
New additions to the DH Lawrence collections
In this talk Dr Andrew Harrison will discuss and interpret several recently acquired items in the University’s internationally recognised Lawrence Collections, including a manuscript of ‘Laura Philippine’ and a rare typescript of ‘Pansies’.
Tags: City of Literature, Collected Words, DH Lawrence, DH Lawrence Research Centre, Dr Andrew Harrison, literature, Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature, reading, writing