Saturday 16 September - 11am-3pm £6/£4conc
Poetry Workshop
Northcote Library
A four-hour workshop (including lunch-break) with SW11 poet-in-residence
Aoife Mannix. If you fancy the chance to flex your creative muscles and
sharpen your poetic voice in a friendly environment, then this could be for
you. Aoife will lead a series of exercises and help spark off some ideas for
brand-new poems. Workshop attendees will then have the chance to
showcase their writing next Friday in a live performance at Battersea Arts
Centre. Places are limited, so please book early to avoid disappointment.
Friday 22 September - 8.30pm £4.75/3.50
SW11 Live Poetry Showcase
BAC, Lavender Hill. For tickets call (020) 7223 2223
An evening of onstage verse with our poet-in-residence Aoife Mannix and
the collected talents of last week’s writing workshop. There’ll also be
some open slots – so if you’re one of SW11’s hottest spoken-word stars,
then you too can turn up and take the mic. Otherwise, just come along, pin
back your ears and prepare to be poetically entertained. Brought to you by
Apples & Snakes – London’s premier promoters of live poetry.
I’m also reading at the following events:
Saturday 16 September - 7pm £6/£4conc
Mark Haddon
St Mary’s Church, Battersea Church Road, Battersea,
Mark Haddon is an author, illustrator and screenwriter who has written
fifteen books for children and won numerous prizes, including two BAFTAs.
His novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time was a bestseller
around the world. It won more than seventeen literary awards, including the
Whitbread Book of the Year Award, the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize and
the South Bank Show Book Award, and was longlisted for the Man Booker
Prize. Mark Haddon’s first collection of poems, The Talking Horse and the Sad
Girl and the Village Under the Sea, was published in 2005.
Sunday 17 September - 7pm £3
Salley Vickers
Ottakar’s, 70-72 St John’s Rd
Salley Vickers has worked as a university teacher of literature, specialising in
Shakespeare, and taught in adult education where she specialised in the
literature of the ancient world. She is a trained analytical psychologist and
lectures widely on the connections between literature, psychology and
religion. She has always maintained an essential belief in the importance of
the creative arts saying ‘I think they are probably much more use to people
than psychology is.’
To date she has published four bestselling books, Miss Garnet’s Angel,
Instances of the Number 3 and Mr Golightly’s Holiday, and the latest book,
The Other Side of You, all of which continue to have a broad appeal making
Vickers a household literary name. They contain a scintillating mixture of
history, travel and philosophy, while constantly questioning our own human
nature.
Vickers was also on the judging panel for the Man Booker Prize in 2002.
Tuesday 19 September - 7pm £3
Julian Barnes
Ottakar’s, 70-72 St Johns Road
Born in Leicester, in 1946, Julian Barnes has written ten novels, two
collections of short stories and two books of essays. He was educated at
the City of London School and Magdalen College, Oxford. During his career
he has worked as a reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement, he was
assistant literary editor and television critic for the New Statesman
magazine and deputy literary editor for the Sunday Times.
Now based in London, his latest novel Arthur and George has been a huge
critical success as well as featuring on the bestseller lists. A testament to
this is that last year it earned Barnes his third shortlist nomination for the
Man Booker Prize, whilst also being selected as a favourite on the Richard
and Judy bookclub. Barnes is no stranger to awards, his other honours
include winning the Somerset Maugham Award (Metroland) and the
Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (Flaubert’s Parrot), as well as the E. M. Forster
Award from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
A lesser known fact is that during the 1980’s Barnes also published several
crime novels under the pseudonym of Dan Kavanagh. He is an eloquent a
speaker as he is a writer.