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ilkley literature festival 10 with Skipton Building Society 5. Saturday 2nd October 11am–1pm Manor House Don Paterson Masterclass: Poetry for the Deadly Serious Don Paterson will conduct an open seminar-style workshop and discuss all aspects of the poetic art, looking at the business of poetic composition as a technical, practical and spiritual exercise, and focussing on every stage of the process from inspiration to publication. £12/8 Please bring pen, paper and two or three good questions. For intermediate and experienced writers. Places limited – please book in advance. 6. Saturday 2nd October 11am –1pm St Margaret’s Hall Jeremy Dyson Masterclass on Creativity Explore how to get from the spark of an idea to the finished thing – be it story, sketch, script or novel with novelist and scriptwriter Jeremy Dyson, co-creator of the awardwinning BBC series, The League of Gentlemen. £12/8 All levels of experience. Please bring pen and paper. Places limited – please book in advance. 7. Saturday 2nd October 12 noon–12.45pm Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Stormy Weather and The Trouble with Dragons with Debi Gliori An enchanting event full of drawing and storytelling for younger children from the immensely popular author and illustrator of scores of much loved children’s books, including No Matter What, The Trouble with Dragons and Stormy Weather. £4 Family event age 5–7. 8. Saturday 2nd October 12.30–2pm Church House Bring–Share Poetry Lunch Poet in Residence Antony Dunn offers a delicious opportunity to mingle with your fellow festivalgoers. Bring and share not just your lunch, but your favourite poem. Poems about Yorkshire, or by Yorkshire writers particularly welcome – but bring anything you think will tickle our taste buds. Special cream cake award for those who can recite their favourite poem by heart! £5 includes tea and coffee 9. Saturday 2nd October 1.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside The Running Sky: Tim Dee and Horatio Clare The Running Sky, Tim Dee’s extraordinary and inspiring account of his bird watching life has been acclaimed as a classic, taking us from clouds of breeding seabirds to nightjars like giant moths. This afternoon he talks to Horatio Clare, fellow radio producer (Front Row, The Verb) and journalist (The Guardian, Sunday Times, Daily Telegraph) whose latest book, Single Swallow, follows a barn swallow’s annual migration from Cape Town to the hills of South Wales, Clare’s childhood home. ‘Travel writing at its very best – enthralling, passionate … and utterly, utterly brilliant.’ £5/3 10. Saturday 2nd October 2pm Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Love’s Civil War: Victoria Glendinning Hundreds of miles separated celebrated writer Elizabeth Bowen and the Canadian diplomat, Charles Ritchie, but their affair lasted 32 years. Her love letters reveal the novelist at her most brilliant: passionate, intelligent, eloquent, strong-minded and wonderfully funny. Victoria Glendinning, the acclaimed award-winning biographer of Bowen, Leonard Woolf, Anthony Trollope, Edith Sitwell and Vita Sackville-West, explores Bowen’s love letters and Ritchie’s remarkably candid diaries. £6/4 11. Saturday 2nd October 2pm Kings Hall Terry Eagleton: The Nature of Evil Why should evil appear so glamorous and seductive? Why does goodness seem so boring? Terry Eagleton, former Professor of English at Oxford and widely regarded as Britain’s most influential living literary critic, launches a surprising and witty defence of the reality of evil. Drawing on literary, theological, and psychoanalytic sources from Thomas Aquinas to Thomas Mann, he suggests that evil is a real phenomenon with palpable force. £9/7 Terry Eagleton 12
Box Office 01943 816714 www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk 12. Saturday 2nd October 2–2.15pm Manor House Museum Faces of Poetry Face-to- Face: Don Paterson As part of the opening of this prestigious exhibition, poet Don Paterson comes face-to-face with his own image as he gives a unique short reading in front of celebrated Scottish photographer Norman McBeath’s portrait. FREE 13. Saturday 2nd October 2.30pm St Margaret’s Hall A Case of Exploding Talent: New Writing in Pakistan Filled with almost 200 million people speaking nearly 60 languages, brought into nationhood under the auspices of a single religion but destabilised by deep separatist fissures and conflicts with its neighbours, Pakistan is one of the most dynamic places in the world. In this panel discussion, writers featured in literary magazine Granta’s Pakistan issue explore the frisson and fractures of new writing in Pakistan. £5/3 includes a cup of chai Sponsored by Granta 14. Saturday 2nd October 3pm Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside Elsie and Mairi go to War: Diane Atkinson They met at a motorcycle club in 1912, a motorcycling divorcee in bottle-green leathers, and a brilliant 18 year old mechanic. In 1914, they roared off ‘to do their bit’, and within a month were driving ambulances to military hospitals, where the ‘Angels of Pervyse’ became celebrities. But, as author and former Museum of London lecturer Diane Atkinson reveals, adjusting to peacetime was as challenging as war. £5/3 See Event 28 for a glimpse of Ilkley at the time of WW1. 15. Saturday 2nd October 3–5pm Church House Poetry Surgery Trouble with one of your poems? Book yourself in to see the Festival’s Poetry Doctor, Antony Dunn, for a 30 minute session. Send your ailing poem and contact details to: info@ ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk or post to Poetry Surgeries, ILF, Manor House, Ilkley, LS29 9DT. £5 First come, first served. 16. Saturday 2nd October 3.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Don Paterson: Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets Don Paterson, an award-winning sonneteer and lyric poet in his own right, offers an illuminating guide to Shakespeare’s much loved sonnets. In a series of mesmerising and highly entertaining commentaries, Paterson explains the inner workings of the poems – their hidden structures and techniques, their narratives and brilliance – as actors bring the sonnets to life. £5/3 17. Saturday 2nd October 4.30pm St Margaret’s Hall Lyndall Gordon: Emily Dickinson and the Surge in the Brain Fellow of St Hilda’s Oxford, acclaimed biographer and James Tait Black award winner, Lyndall Gordon (whose previous subjects include Mary Wollstonecraft, Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Brontë) turns her attention to Emily Dickinson, dispelling the myth of a quaint, helpless creature, disappointed in love. Instead she reveals a fiercely passionate nature, damaging family feuds and a closely guarded secret … £6/4 Supported by the Friends of Ilkley Literature Festival Robert McCrum 18. Saturday 2nd October 4.45pm Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside How English became the World’s Language: Robert McCrum Conversations about Empires Robert McCrum, former literary editor of the Observer and for 20 years editor-in-chief of Faber & Faber, investigates the beginnings of the English language. How did slavery affect the way we speak today? Why does American culture continue to spread? Linking language, culture, history and power, McCrum traces the way English responded to a changing world and its ever increasing influence across the globe. £5/3 19. Saturday 2nd October 5.15pm Ilkley Playhouse Wildman It’s a Long Way Poems and handmade books from Mary Thomson. FREE FRINGE EVENT See page 45 for full details. 13
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