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ilkley literature festival 10 with Skipton Building Society 60. Thursday 7th October 2–4pm Rombalds Hotel Michèle Roberts Fiction Masterclass Masterclass with poet, essayist, critic and author Michèle Roberts. Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia and previously co-director of UEA’s Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) MA. An inspiring opportunity to work with one of the best creative writing tutors in the UK. £12/8 Not for beginners. Please bring pen and paper. Places limited – please book in advance. 61. Thursday 7th October 7.30pm Rombalds Hotel Carcanet Press Evening with Michael Schmidt and Peter Sansom Carcanet’s founder, Professor Michael Schmidt, is a key figure in British literature, whose ‘vibrant and radiant poems … earthy and numinous’ – John Ashbery – include Collected Poems (Smith/Doorstop Books). Peter Sansom is co-director of The Poetry Business. His fifth Carcanet book, Selected Poems, is launched tonight, in a compelling evening of two halves. Michael and Peter begin by reading their own work and discussing publishing; then, after a glass of wine, they feature poems by Carcanet authors as diverse as Patricia Beer, John Clare, Edwin Morgan, Les Murray and Frank O’Hara. £5/3 includes a glass of wine Michèle Roberts © Time Warner Books UK 62. Thursday 7th October 7.30pm St Margaret’s Hall In-Flight Entertainment: Michèle Roberts and Helen Simpson Michèle Roberts, celebrated novelist, poet and short story writer, discusses her latest collection of stories, Mud: Stories of Sex and Love, which take us to 19th Century Venice, modern-day France and beyond – with Helen Simpson, undisputed master of the short story genre. Simpson makes a welcome return to Ilkley with stories from In-Flight Entertainment which move between domestic and fantastic, tragic and comic – portraits of lives in transition. £6/4 63. Thursday 7th October 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside Anatole Kaletsky: Capitalism 4.0 Anatole Kaletsky, Times editor-atlarge, former editor of the FT and leading economic theorist, considers the birth of a new economy in the aftermath of the current crisis. Pinpointing other moments in history when capitalism was transformed by financial collapse: the late 19th century, the 1930s and 70s, now, he argues, we face the transition into ‘Capitalism 4.0’. If we recognise the fallibility of markets and governments can we create a functioning system of checks and balances? £6/4 Sponsored by Garbutt & Elliott 64. Thursday 7th October 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Christopher Frayling: Horace Walpole’s Cat In 1747, Walpole’s tabby fell into a porcelain tub in his Mayfair house. Thomas Gray’s Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes, was Selima’s epitaph. Writer and cultural historian, Sir Christopher Frayling, former chair of Arts Council England and Rector of the Royal College of Art, explores the complex social and cultural life of the period the incident reveals. £5/3 Sir Christopher Frayling 20
Box Office 01943 816714 www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk Helen Dunmore 65. Thursday 7th October 7.30pm Manor House Museum Ian Vince: The Lie of the Land From ancient volcanoes and deserts to long-forgotten seas, Ian Vince deciphers how and why we see such distinctive ecology, microclimates and patterns of human settlement around every corner in the UK. Peeling back the surface of the land he explains how the forces of the planet – volcanic mayhem, polar weather, lush tropical vegetation and bizarre creatures – have made it what it is today. £4 In asociation with Friends of the Manor House. 66. Thursday 7th October 9pm Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside A Flambard Affair Sensual, evocative poetry from Mary Robinson and Rebecca Goss. FREE FRINGE EVENT See page 45 for full details. 67. Thursday 7th October 9pm Ilkley Playhouse Wildman An Domhan Eile (The Other World) by Lucht Focail Poetry, story, music and dance from the popular Irish writers group. FREE FRINGE EVENT See page 45 for full details. 68. Friday 8th October 11am–12pm Meet at the Cow and Calf Rocks car park Lie of the Land Walk Anyone who has ever picked up a pebble at the seaside or a rock on a moorland path or longed to understand the ground beneath their feet will want to join Ian Vince as he ‘peels back the land’ to reveal the fascinating forces which have shaped Ilkley Moor and the Wharfe Valley £4 Some moorland walking – please wear suitable shoes and bring waterproofs.Refreshments and toilets can be found at the Cow and Calf pub. Ilkley Moor © Dave Smith 69. Friday 8th October 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Wildman Hops and Glory and IPA Meet Britain’s best beer writer, awardwinning Pete Brown from Barnsley, as he sets off to India by canal and tall ship with a keg of Burton IPA brewed to the original recipe. Brazilian pirates and Iranian customs officials lie ahead, but will his barrel stand up to the original India Pale Ale – a semimythical beer invented 140 years ago to survive storms and tropical sunshine? Make up your mind as you sample Ilkley’s own special IPA, brewed for the occasion by Ilkley Brewery. £7/5 includes beer tasting kindly provided by Ilkley Brewery 70. Friday 8th October 7.30pm Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside Helen Dunmore: The Betrayal Helen Dunmore is an acclaimed poet, novelist and short story writer. The Siege (shortlisted for both Whitbread and Orange Prizes) captured a family’s desperate struggle to survive the siege of Leningrad. Tonight she discusses The Betrayal, a beautifully written portrait of life in post-war Soviet Russia, returning us to the same city and same characters in 1952 when the eyes of Stalin’s secret police are everywhere. £5/3 71. Friday 8th October 7.30pm St Margaret’s Hall EM Forster: Wendy Moffat Fans of EM Forster have long wondered why, after A Passage to India, he never published another novel. Wendy Moffat, Associate Professor of English at Dickinson College Pennsylvania, explores possible explanations as she discusses her ‘superbly illuminating’ revisionist and controversial biography, arguing Forster’s homosexuality was the key to his work, making him a true radical, even if he chose not to write about it. £5/3 Wendy Moffat 21
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