Summer Reads 2011: Author Events
An Evening with Simon Armitage and Glynn Maxwell
May 19th, 7.30pm, Norwich Playhouse
Don’t miss out on the chance to see Simon Armitage and Glyn Maxwell; two of the best poets writing in Britain today.
Young guns of the British Poetry scene in the 90s, they followed Auden and MacNeice to Iceland and produced the brilliant Moon Country together. Prizes and awards followed, and now you will see why as they perform together in a unique reunion celebrating and exploring the best in British poetry.
The Rialto magazine first published Simon’s work in 1987; join its editor and Writers’ Centre Norwich in a memorable evening which will include discussion and readings - tracing the course of two key poets of the past twenty years.
‘Are they poems, or prose poems, or flash fiction? I'm not sure, but they're very more-ish; and there is more wit and adventure on display here than you'll find in many poets' careers.’
Paul Batchelor, The Guardian on Simon Armitage’s Seeing Stars.
'You have to go back to Auden's The Orators to find dramatic verse to equal Glyn Maxwell's.
James Wood on Maxwell’s The Sugar Mile.
This event is brought to you in collaboration with The Rialto.
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Your Summer Reads event with Katie Kitamura, Andrey Kurkov & Evie Wyld
June 21st 6.30pm, Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, £2.
Join us at the Norfolk & Norwich Millennium Library and get even more from this year’s Summer Reads programme with Summer Reads authors Katie Kitamura, Andrey Kurkov & Evie Wyld.
This is your chance to meet the authors, hear them read from their books and pose any questions you’ve been dying to ask.
This event will be popular, so please book in advance.
Evie Wyld has been hitting the heights with her debut novel After The Fire, A Still Small Voice. Winner of the John Llewllyn Rhys prize, shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers and recently listed by The Culture Show as one of their Best New British Writers, this is one reading you won’t want to miss.
Andrey Kurkov is the author of critically acclaimed and popular novels. Andrey will read from The Good Angel of Death - a classic, first-rate Kurkov yarn which is sure to delight old and new fans alike.
Katie Kitamura will be reading from her debut novel The Longshot. It’s no exaggeration to say that this novel packs a punch, and we think this quote says it all: 'Hemingway's returned to life -- and this time, he's a woman' -Tom McCarthy.
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Joseph O'Connor and John Boyne celebrating Norwich UNESCO City of Literature
June 23rd 7pm, UEA Lecture Theatre 1, £5
Join us at the University of East Anglia Lecture Theatre 1 and enjoy an evening with two brilliant writers – John Boyne and Joseph O’Connor - from Dublin, UNESCO City of Literature.
Norwich is currently bidding to become a UNESCO City of Literature. Following the inaugural UNESCO keynote from Ian MCEwan in 2009, we once again celebrate this important international literature network.
John Boyne will read from his new novel The Absolutist set in war-time Norwich. His 2006 novel, The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, topped the New York Times bestseller list, won several international literary awards and was made into a Miramax feature film.
Joseph O’Connor, the author of Star of the Sea will read from his exhilarating love story Ghost Light, which is one of our 2011 Summer Reads and was chosen for this year’s ‘Dublin: One City, One Book' campaign.
Help celebrate Norwich’s bid for UNESCO City of Literature status and prepare to be charmed and moved.
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Two readings with Robin Bayley
July 20th 2pm, Dereham Library, Free
July 20th 6.30pm, Norfolk and Norwich Millennium Library, £2
Want to find out more about The Mango Orchard direct from the author?
Here's your chance: At these events, Summer Reads author Robin Bayley will read from and answer questions about his travel-writing-come-family-history journey to Mexico, and the amazing discovery he made there.
