Fail Better Samuel Beckett
A review of Samuel Beckett: Fail Better by Jack Wright
Samuel Beckett: Fail Better – Emilie Morin
Fail-Better-Samuel-Beckett-2020_(2)_-_Emilie_Moran.mp3 Emilie Morin is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. She specialises in modern British and Irish literature, theatre history and forms of political writing. She has published widely in these fields including writing the books: Beckett’s Political Imagination (Cambridge University Press, 2017) and Samuel Beckett…
Samuel Beckett: Fail Better – Joanna Walsh
Fail-Better-Samuel-Beckett-2020-Joanna-Walsh.mp3 Joanna Walsh is a writer, artist and editor. She is the author of seven books including the digital work seed-story.com. Her latest book, Break.up, was published by Semiotext(e) in 2018. She is a UK Arts Foundation Fellow, and a PhD candidate in Creative and Critical Writing at the University of East Anglia, where she…
2020 | Fail Better | Melanie Roberts | Natalie Abrahami | Samuel Beckett | Theatre | Wilton's Music Hall
Samuel Beckett: Fail Better – Natalie Abrahami
Fail-Better-Samuel-Beckett-2020_(1).mp3 Natalie Abrahami was Artistic Director of the Gate Theatre, Notting Hill from 2007-2012 and Associate Director at the Young Vic 2013-16. She has also been Associate Artist at the Nuffield Theatre and at Hull Truck. Recent theatre and opera include: Swive [Elizabeth] (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse), ANNA (National Theatre), The Meeting (Chichester Festival Theatre), Machinal…
Fail Better 2020
Can failure be a good thing? Across 2020 Poet in the City’s London programme will contemplate the role of failure as a catalyst for change.
Digesting History
Explore your Central Library after dark as we transform the building for a theatrical dining experience with a menu of poetry, history and live performance.
Fundraiser 2020: The Unreal City
Poet in the City’s 2020 Fundraiser invites you to wander through the Unreal City. A riotous reimagining of the 1920s literary landscape.
James Baldwin: Nobody Knows my Name
A tribute to James Baldwin, exploring the failure of the media to recognise his life’s work beyond the singular narrative of the Black experience in America.
The Little Green Notebook of Che Guevara
A look inside the little green notebook of international symbol of revolution Che Guevara, with poetry readings in both Spanish and English.
Samuel Beckett: Fail Better
An evening of live poetry, performance and discussion exploring Samuel Beckett’s famed approach to failure.
Emily Dickinson: Success is Counted Sweetest
An afternoon of live poetry and discussion celebrating Emily Dickinson’s approach to finding strength in the face of critique, and explore how numerous contemporary artists have also rejected societal classifications of failure and success and instead defined their own.
2019 | Deconstructing Empire | Ed Walker | Linton Wesley Stephens | Music | Poet In The City Producers | Politics | St Paul's Cathedral
Deconstructing Empire: The Great British Fantasy? – Linton Wesley Stephens
deconstructingempire-219-_lintonwesleystephens.mp3 Linton Wesley Stephens was born in Chester and grew up on the Wirral. He began playing the Bassoon at the age of 16. He is the sub-principal bassoon with Chineke! Orchestra with whom he has performed at the proms and Wigmore hall. He also enjoys varied freelance career. Recent appearances include BBC Philharmonic, Hallé…
2019 | Contemporary | Deconstructing Empire | Ed Walker | Poet In The City Producers | Politics | Sona Datta | St Paul's Cathedral
Deconstructing Empire: The Great British Fantasy? – Sona Datta
deconstructingempire-219-_sonadatta.mp3 Dr Sona Datta is a curator, writer, and broadcaster of South Asian art from Medieval to Modern. She is a 2019/20 Clore Leadership Fellow. This interview was conducted on 6th December 2019 at St Paul’s Cathedral by Ed Walker at Deconstructing Empire: The Great British Fantasy? as part of the Poet in the City Producers programme.
2019 | Anthony Anaxagorou | Contemporary | Deconstructing Empire | Ed Walker | Politics | Producers | St Paul's Cathedral
Deconstructing Empire: The Great British Fantasy? – Anthony Anaxagorou
deconstructing-empire-219-anthonyanaxagorou.mp3 Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator. His poetry has been published in POETRY, The Poetry Review, Poetry London, Granta, Ambit, The Adroit Journal and The Rialto. His work has appeared on BBC Newsnight, BBC Radio 4, ITV, Vice UK, Channel 4 and Sky Arts. His second…
Oi Barman! In the City
A review of Oi Barman! In the City by Jack Wright
Oi Barman! In the City
Commissioned in collaboration with Culture Mile, Oi Barman! is a lovesong to bar life, to low pay and late nights; to our fellow champions in spirits, and brethren in tips.
2019 | Contemporary | Culture | Faber | Humanity | Kings Place | Northern Ireland | Politics | Seamus Heaney | Society
Vona Groake at Seamus Heaney: Blackbird
Tom Deveson interviews Vona Groarke at Poet in the City’s Seamus Heaney – Blackbird event
Seamus Heaney: Blackbird – Roy Foster
Tom Deveson interviews Roy Foster at Poet in the City’s Seamus Heaney – Blackbird event
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