photo: Birgitta Johansson
"Graham creates a democratic space in which anyone present can contribute thoughts about the poems and the poet's ideas"
(Workshop participant) |
e-mail: grahamkfawcett@googlemail.com
telephone: 020 7405 3997
“Loved
the Plath-Hughes Day last summer – I went straight to the Birthday
Letters on my shelf and read it from cover to
cover”
(Kathy Wrightson) |
LATEST NEWS
NEW OCCASIONAL SERIES
Poetry Anniversary Lunches
Poetry Anniversary Lunches
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Bloomsbury
Sunday 27th May
12 noon for 1230pm-3pm
William Carlos Williams'
'Pictures from Brueghel' (1962)
To mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of this poem from the collection of the same name
Empire (upstairs) Bar, The Lamb,
94 Lamb's Conduit Street, London WC1
£10 (excluding
lunch)
For full details, including how to book, click here on
http://www.grahamfawcett.co.uk/events.htm#pal4wcw
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Poetry Anniversary Lunches
6
Emily Dickinson' s
annus mirabilis - 1862
(the year in which she wrote 366 poems)
DATE AND DETAILS COMING SOON
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Poetry Anniversary Lunches
5
Bloomsbury
Sunday 24th June
12 noon for 1230pm-3pm
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Cantos 1 and 2
(1812)
To mark the 200th anniversary of the publication of the first two cantos of this four-canto poem
Empire (upstairs) Bar, The Lamb,
94 Lamb's Conduit Street, London WC1
£10 (excluding
lunch)
For full details,
including how to book, click here on
http://www.grahamfawcett.co.uk/events.htm#pal5lb
DETAILS COMING SOON OF THE EXTRACTS WE WILL BE CONCENTRATING ON
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Poetry Anniversary Lunches
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DATE AND DETAILS COMING SOON
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Graham Fawcett provides courses, seminars, tutorials, and one-day events on reading and writing poetry.
He has been a tutor for The Poetry School since 1997, devising and teaching new courses on poetry past and present from around the world. He has taught translation at Goldsmiths College since 1991 and lectures on both poetry and translation at universities in the UK, Italy and Spain. He has been a mentor for Exiled Writers Ink, and is a trustee of Outside In, the children's world literature charity, and President of the T S Eliot Society (UK) - www.eliotsociety.org.uk.
SEVEN OLYMPIANS
NEW SERIES
For news of
the sixth supper lecture
in this brand new series
speciallycommissioned
for Olympic Year
Emily Dickinson
Monday June 11th 2012
at 615pm for 645pm
click here
and then on
6 - Emily Dickinson
News
The St Olave's sound system has just been serviced and is now fully operational again, ensuring excellent quality for lecture audiences.
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Graham Fawcett has edited Anvil New Poets (Anvil Press, 1990), is
co-editor, with Mimi Khalvati, of the second Poetry School anthology, Entering The Tapestry (Enitharmon, 2003), adjudicated the Suffolk Poetry Society's 2008 George Crabbe Memorial Poetry Competition, has taught week-long residential courses for Christopher North at Almassera Vella, Relleu (Alicante), and contributed to the 2009 celebrations in Woodbridge to mark the Edward Fitzgerald bicentenary.
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2010 collaborations included Pepys 350, the first Chipping Campden Literature Festival (May), the debut of Art House Holidays in Atlantic Spain, and a 15-month series of monthly supper lectures on Dante's Divine Comedy between September 2010 and December 2011 in London and available for tour.
EVENTS COMING IN 2012
ALREADY INCLUDE
Seven Olympians
Seven monthly supper lectures
at 615pm for 645pm (ends 830pm)
St Olaves, Hart Street, London, EC3
with sonatas by Beethoven
continues into the Spring and Summer with:
6. Emily Dickinson (Monday 11 June)
Beethoven Piano Sonata Op.79 (Yuki Negishi)
7. Neruda (Monday 2 July)
Beethoven Piano Sonata Op.54 (Yuki Negishi)
£15 including supper, buy on the door
April into May
Live Legends
(Talking pictures, sounding sense)
Samson, Orpheus, Lemminkainen's Mother,
Gawain, and Parsifal
Bookable singly - see contact details below
When narrative in literature and poetry has the capacity to inspire the eye and ear with equal force, composers and painters alike are found rushing to re-deliver that impact in the language of paint and music.
The Course, 1 Berkeley Street, W1
Five Tuesdays 1045am-1245pm
from 24 April to 21 May
details at http://www.thecoursestudies.co.uk/
enquiries 0207 266 7815
or info@thecoursestudies.co.uk
"It's been absolutely fascinating and I've loved every lecture".
(Course participant) |
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May into June
Hidden Venice
The Course, 1 Berkeley Street, W1
Five Tuesdays 1045am-1245pm
from 29 May to 26 June
Bookable singly - see contact details below
details at http://www.thecoursestudies.co.uk/
enquiries 0207 266 7815
or info@thecoursestudies.co.uk |
"Lectures are of a very high standard. Fascinating asides. Very informative".
(Course participant) |
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During the summer and autumn of 2011 Graham has been teaching English poetry in London and Venetian history and culture in Venice to undergraduates from Westmont College, Santa Barbara, and been a language coach in Italian to the BBC Singers for the 2011 BBC Proms.
“A voice you could eat with a spoon, wonderful, I loved him reading, I came specially." (Blind member of audience at Lyme ArtsFest) |
A commission in October from Andrew Baker of the Middlesex University BA Hons. Illustration course to lecture at the Hendon Campus on 'The Haunts of the Poets in London' has helped inspire the exhibition of new work by Middlesex illustrators at The Poetry Cafe, 22 Betterton Street (on until 22 December 2011).
In November Graham gave the 2011 Annual Lecture to the Guild of Psychotherapists, entitled Reading, Writing, Groups and Selfhood.
Graham is a translator and interpreter in Italian and has written and presented radio programmes about literature and music on BBC Radio 3 for many years.
He studied Classics at Christ's Hospital, read Archaeology & Anthropology and English at Cambridge, and has worked for Southern Arts, the British Institute of Florence, and the Arvon Foundation. He has lived in Italy and French Catalonia and now lives in London.
2012 appearances will include the Seven Olympians supper lecture series at St Olave's Hart Street and the inaugural Brympton Festival of Literature, Music and Art at Brympton D'Evercy, near Yeovil, Somerset.
