the Ilkley Literature Festival programme

Box Office 01943 816714 www.ilkleyliteraturefestival.org.uk
168.
Sunday 17th October 11am–1pm
Manor House
How Words Behave
Together: Masterclass
with Ruth Padel
A poetry masterclass with this leading
poet. Please bring 13 copies (can be
on the same sheet) of up to three of
your poems to the masterclass for
discussion.
£12/8
For people already writing poetry.
Please bring pen and paper. Places
limited – please book in advance.
169, 170.
Sunday 17th October 1.30pm
and 4pm All Saints School
Tutti Frutti and York
Theatre Royal: When We
Lived in Uncle’s Hat
Round the brim of uncle’s hat and
over the moon, in search of that most
magical place – a home.
£5/4 See page 43 for full details.
171.
Sunday 17th October 1.45pm
Ilkley Playhouse Wharfeside
If I am Not for Myself:
Mike Marqusee
Writer, journalist and social activist
Mike Marqusee describes himself as a
‘deracinated New York Marxist Jew’.
A regular contributor (politics to
cricket) to the Daily Telegraph, The
Hindu and New Left Review, he leads
us on a rich personal journey from
the Bronx via Pakistan to London,
introducing Jewish heretics and
heroes, his brawling grandfather and
the Prophet Amos.
Disentangling Jewishness from Israel,
he explores what it means to be a 21st
century Jew.
£5/3
Emma Darwin
172.
Sunday 17th October 2pm
Meet outside Manor House
Robert Collyer’s Ilkley
Robert Collyer, an Ilkley blacksmith
and Methodist lay preacher emigrated
to America in 1850. Entering the
Unitarian ministry in Chicago he
became one of the leading preachers
of his generation. Collyer made
numerous return visits to Ilkley and
saw at first hand the substantial
changes the town underwent during
the 19th century. This walk, led
by local historian Dr Mike Dixon,
recaptures the transformation he
witnessed.
£4
173.
Sunday 17th October 2pm
Ilkley Playhouse Wildman
Through A Different Lens:
Maria McCann, Emma
Darwin, RN Morris and
Rose Melikan on Writing
Historical Fiction
Four lauded historical novelists,
who between them write crime,
romantic adventure, literary and
crossover fiction, come together
to talk about what they write and
why. Roger Morris is on the sharp
end of outrage as well as delight for
borrowing Dostoevsky’s detective in
1860s St Petersburg; Maria McCann
draws on the turbulent history of Civil
War radicalism; Rose Melikan has
created a Georgian heroine with more
on her mind than card parties; and
Emma Darwin draws on the violent,
glamorous world of the Princes in the
Tower. Together they discuss how
they work with the past and how they
leave the facts behind to reach the
might-have-been of fiction.
£5/3
174.
Sunday 17th October 2pm
Craiglands
Margaret Drabble:
In Conversation
Novelist, critic and biographer,
Margaret Drabble has for many
years been one of the most respected
and acclaimed contributors to
contemporary English literature. Here
in conversation with James Nash,
she reflects on her long career and
discuses her latest book, The Pattern
In The Carpet: A Personal History With
Jigsaws.
£6/4
Margaret Drabble
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