Events Calendar

  • Sat 3/13/2010: What Does the Poem Need from the Poet? With Sean O’Brien
  • Sat 3/20/2010: Writing East Anglia with Jeremy Page
  • Sat 4/24/2010: Making Poems with Alan Jenkins
  • Tue 4/27/2010: Writing a Novel: Short Course with Rachel Hore
  • Wed 4/28/2010: Poetry Short Course with Michael Laskey

Amis reads ‘The Pregnant Widow’

Last week we hosted Martin Amis at the Norwich Playhouse as part of the Norwich and Norfolk festival. Amis was in conversation with the Observer’s Robert McCrum, our Chair, and long time friend of Amis.
McCrum got Amis started with some pertinent questions, which Amis responded to at length. The event was a sell-out, and Amis kept the audience [...]

Our Next Stage

It is a bright warm day in April and the clocks are striking thirteen (sort of.)
Ah, if only George Orwell were here to compose this ‘ere first blog on our new website.  I suspect the awesome pressure may have compelled him to compose the best work of his career, but we shall never know.  For [...]