Graham Fawcett

writer, teacher, translator and broadcaster

e-mail: grahamkfawcett@gmail.com

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Events and Courses Calendar
with Graham Fawcett

this calendar is usually updated every two or three days

2009

                Sunday 11th January 2009

New Year Walk and Sunday Lunch in Bloomsbury

                               with Graham Fawcett

There was a time when Bloomsbury was roamed by Woolfs. Leonard and Virginia led the pack, but many others followed, even moving into houses a few doors up or down from them. Here the first books rolled off the Hogarth Press, soirées were held, reputations made and lost. W B Yeats lived a few hundred yards away and a procession of greater and lesser names crossed his threshold. Poets were thick on the ground in these parts. And then there was that fellow from Walsall who wrote Three Men in a Boat . . . . This gentle walk will take you to some of the less often discovered as well as the more famous places where the great poets and writers of London's remote and recent past have lived and worked and sat down to lunch with one another. Spanning the centuries from street to street, we will pass, one after another, front doors once familiar to . . .

All will be revealed on the second Sunday morning of 2009.

Meet from 1015am: outside the café in the middle of Russell Square, WC1

Walk begins: 1030am. Length of walk: about one and a half hours

Followed by Sunday lunch together in the Upstairs Bar (which we will have to ourselves) at The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, WC1, 12 noon.

£10 for the walk (excludes the cost of lunch at The Lamb, very good and reasonably priced menu, including vegetarian options, from sandwiches to roasts) 

Now booking -

25 tickets already sold, 0 places left  - see also Sunday 1st February, a second chance to book for the walk and lunch

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                                Sunday 11th January 2009

New Year Walk and Sunday Lunch in Bloomsbury with Graham Fawcett

                                (early booking advised as numbers are limited)

□ PLEASE TICK BOX:  I’d like to enrol on New Year Walk and Sunday Lunch in Bloomsbury with Graham Fawcett to be held in Bloomsbury on Sunday 11th January 2009. I would like _____ tickets, and I enclose a cheque for £10 per person which I understand does not include lunch at The Lamb.

Please make your cheque payable to Graham Fawcett and send it with the completed booking form to him at 2 Harpur Mews, London WC1N 3PE. You will then be sent your ticket(s) for the walk.

NAME(S):

POSTAL AND E-MAIL ADDRESSES:

TELEPHONE NUMBERS:

Wednesdays 14th January to 18th March 2009

LONDON

THE POETRY SCHOOL

81/83 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6DX

READING THE GREEKS AND ROMANS

(the first of two ten-week terms)

with Graham Fawcett

Chart the poetry map of the Ancient Greek and Roman worlds, tracing the development of poetry from Athenian verse drama to Roman satire through close readings of key poems and passages illustrated by a whole range of translations from George Chapman to Ted Hughes and beyond. 

Term 1 – Reading The Greeks

Hesiod, Homer, Alcaeus, Sappho, Anacreon, Simonides, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Menander, and poets of the Hellenistic World read in some of the finest translations available in English

Bookings: www.poetryschool.com

Enquiries and bookings: 0845 223 5274  booking now open, 14 places already booked, 2 places left

Thursdays 15th January to 19th March 2009, 645pm-845pm

(the second of three ten-week terms through to June 2009)

LONDON

THE POETRY SCHOOL

81/83 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6DX

READING POEMS IN THEIR TIME AND PLACE

Why do poets write the poems they do when they do ?

Ranging across the centuries and around the world, Graham picks characteristic poems from thirty poets and presents them to you – to begin with – anonymously. Studying them line by line, you’ll unearth ideas about their place in history and the poet’s life, and explore the literary, cultural and social conditions out of which they came. A relaxed and friendly close reading course.

Like each new term, each evening session is completely self-contained, a feature of the course also appreciated by those who decide to join it in January or April.

The first part of the evening is spent getting a sense of the time and place in which the poem seems to have been written and so who might have written it. From the moment when the identity of the poet has been guessed or revealed, the group has to re-think much of what has already been said, often discovering some unimaginably fascinating parallels between the not-quite-on-the-mark guesses already made and the actual poet in his or her time and place. So, for instance, a sense of civil war or non-Englishness can lead to a solution which has both of these features though not quite as expected.

Poets whose work you will read might include Anna Akhmatova, W H Auden, Basho, Anne Bradstreet, Bei Dao, Edward Brathwaite, the Countess of Dia, Emily Dickinson, T S Eliot, Jorie Graham, W S Graham, Seamus Heaney, George Herbert, G M Hopkins, Horace, Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Jennings, Ivan Lalic, Mallarmé, Eugenio Montale, Les A Murray, Alice Oswald, Pindar, Ezra Pound, Rilke, Leopold Senghor, Shelley, Wallace Stevens, Tennyson, W B Yeats and others.

Enquiries and bookings to: 0845 223 5274

Bookings: www.poetryschool.com   booking now open, 14 places already booked, 2 places left

Monday 19th January 2009

LONDON
ST OLAVE'S, HART STREET, LONDON, EC4

PARALLEL LIVES

A series of ten monthly talks at St Olave's in which Graham Fawcett explores the lives and works of some of the major figures of Samuel Pepys's lifetime (1633-1703). Did Pepys meet John Milton, John Bunyan or Isaac Newton, and if not, how close did he get to doing so? How often did his path cross with that of Andrew Marvell or John Dryden, how much time did he spend with John Evelyn, did he ever see Aphra Behn at the theatre or bump into Daniel Defoe ? Whether Pepys's involvement in the parallel lives of these others is recurrent or no more than a walk-on part, it is the same London and England that they all lived in, often no more than a few streets from each other, and with daily events to face in common. Their parallel lives are there to be discovered.

Next talk in orange

To book, send your cheque for £12 per seat per evening - with refreshments including a choice of pasta and wine - made payable to ‘St Olave Churchwardens’, to:
Phil Manning
Church Manager
St Olave Church
8 Hart Street
London EC3R 7NB

Tickets may also be bought at the door on the night

Any queries to Phil Manning at: sanctuaryinthecity@mac.com

 

Monday 19 January 2009	Introduction to the Parallel Lives series
Monday 2 February	Pepys and 1660 - the Diary begins
Monday 2 March	Pepys and John Milton (1608-1674)
Monday 6 April	Pepys and John Evelyn (1620-1706)
Monday 11 May	Pepys and Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
Monday 1 June	Pepys and John Bunyan (1628-1688)
Monday 6 July	Pepys and 1667
Monday 7 September	Pepys and John Dryden (1631-1700)
Monday 5 October	Pepys and the Royal Society (founded 1660)
Monday 2 November	Pepys and Aphra Behn (1640-1689)
Monday 7 December	Pepys and Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)

               Repeated by popular demand

                Sunday 1st February 2009

New Year Walk and Sunday Lunch in Bloomsbury

                               with Graham Fawcett

There was a time when Bloomsbury was roamed by Woolfs. Leonard and Virginia led the pack, but many others followed, even moving into houses a few doors up or down from them. Here the first books rolled off the Hogarth Press, soirées were held, reputations made and lost. W B Yeats lived a few hundred yards away and a procession of greater and lesser names crossed his threshold. Poets were thick on the ground in these parts. And then there was that fellow from Walsall who wrote Three Men in a Boat . . . . This gentle walk will take you to some of the less often discovered as well as the more famous places where the great poets and writers of London's remote and recent past have lived and worked and sat down to lunch with one another. Spanning the centuries from street to street, we will pass, one after another, front doors once familiar to . . .

All will be revealed on the first Sunday morning of February 2009.

Meet from 1015am: outside the café in the middle of Russell Square, WC1

Walk begins: 1030am. Length of walk: about one and a half hours

Followed by Sunday lunch together in the Upstairs Bar (which we will have to ourselves) at The Lamb, 94 Lamb’s Conduit Street, WC1, 12 noon.

£10 for the walk (excludes the cost of lunch at The Lamb, very good and reasonably priced menu, including vegetarian options, from sandwiches to roasts)

Now booking

2 tickets already sold, 23 places left 

------------------------------------------PLEASE CUT HERE--------------------------------------------

                                Sunday 1st February 2009

New Year Walk and Sunday Lunch in Bloomsbury with Graham Fawcett

                             (early booking advised as numbers are limited)

□ PLEASE TICK BOX:  I’d like to enrol on New Year Walk and Sunday Lunch in Bloomsbury with Graham Fawcett to be held in Bloomsbury on Sunday 1st February 2009. I would like _____ tickets, and I enclose a cheque for £10 per person which I understand does not include lunch at The Lamb.

Please make your cheque payable to Graham Fawcett and send it with the completed booking form to him at 2 Harpur Mews, London WC1N 3PE. You will then be sent your ticket(s) for the walk.

NAME(S):

POSTAL AND E-MAIL ADDRESSES:

TELEPHONE NUMBERS:

Saturday 21st to Saturday 28th March 2009

RELLEU, NEAR ALICANTE, SPAIN
ALMASSERA VELLA

          Poetry and Autobiography

Mediterranean Spring Writing Retreat

                            with Graham Fawcett

This week has been designed for those of you who have been attracted to, or have already attended, the live version of my Poetry and Autobiography course for The Poetry School or have downloaded the on-line version of the course.

Or, if this is all new to you and you’re interested in it, then you might also welcome this opportunity to prepare for the Almassera Vella week in Marchand download the course now. This link will transfer you directly to the full-details-and-booking page for this course on the Poetry School web-site.  

Poetry and Autobiography is a writing and preparation-for-writing course. Each of the twelve units contains a set of ideas and questions as springboards for your own work, illustrated by published poems from around the world and throughout history. And since there is no correct time to write an autobiography (gone are the days when writers felt they should leave the task until their old age), a life-story recaptured, in instalments as disjointed as our lives are unintended, may reflect a life in progress.

The Mediterranean Spring Writing Retreat at Almassera Vella will offer new opportunities to explore the themes of the course’s twelve units as well as compare notes with others in the group on the following:

• What has been your experience of working through the Poetry & Autobiography course ?
• Which units have you found rewarding and/or challenging ?
• Which of the recommended poems have been especially useful and how have they helped ?
• Would you like further suggestions for reading ?
• Would you like feedback from others for the poems you have already written ?
• Would you value the chance to see, hear and explore with others the poems which they have been writing ?

As well as the group work and seminar discussion sessions, there will be daily one-to-one tutorials with Graham.

                                * [average late March temperature in Alicante 67 degs F.]

Website: www.oldolivepress.com

Enquiries to: Christopher and Marisa North, Almassera Vella, Carrer de la Mare de Deu del Miracle 56, Relleu 03578, Alicante, Spain
Telephone: 0034 966 856003

E-mail: christopher@oldolivepress.com

Friday 17th to Sunday 19th April 2009

ROME, ITALY

POETRY PLACES 3
A weekend exploring the lives, times and works of poets who once made
their homes in Rome, including specially arranged access to locations
where they lived and worked. Poetry Places 3 will feature the Roman life-
stories and poems of Virgil, Horace, Dante, Ariosto, Milton, Goethe, Shelley,
Byron, Keats, Giuseppe Ungaretti and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

COMMENTS FROM THE 2008 WEEKEND:

"Thank you for a brilliant trip. I really enjoyed it, and have come back with Roman poets and pillars rolling about my mind."

Lucy Moy-Thomas

"What a great trip it was ! Thanks for everything - Prometheus Unbound in situ will stay with me for a long time (as well as lots of other highlights of course)."

Jenny Rivarola

"Thank you so much for the course. There were unforgettable moments, such as in Keats House and your Shelley reading in the Caracalla baths, I can never read either of those two poets in the same way again." Caroline Maldonado

"Such a rich mix of excitement, emotion and fun! I shan't forget it; it’s added a whole new dimension to the Rome I knew before." Sue Field Reid

"So many inspirational readings and connections on this tour of Rome. The forum at dusk. Dante at the Castel Sant’Angelo . Shelley at the Baths of Caracalla. But reading from The Fall of Hyperion by Keats’ grave –a life-defining moment and, I feel, what the young man himself would have wanted. Thank you again for another inspired tour of Poetry Places. I can’t wait for the next one."

Frances Spurrier

Flight and hotel recommendations will be provided

Enquiries: grahamkfawcett@gmail.com

Click here for booking form

Wednesdays 22nd April to 24th June 2009

LONDON

THE POETRY SCHOOL

81/83 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6DX

READING THE GREEKS AND ROMANS

(the second of two ten-week terms)

with Graham Fawcett

Chart the poetry map of the Ancient Roman world, tracing the development of Roman poetry through close readings of key poems and passages read in some of the finest translations available in English. 

Term 2 – Reading The Romans

Lucretius, Catullus, Vergil, Propertius, Tibullus, Horace, Juvenal and Ovid.

Enquiries and bookings to: 0845 223 5274

Bookings: www.poetryschool.com

Thursdays 23rd April to 25th June 2009, 645pm-845pm

(the third of three ten-week terms through to June 2009)

LONDON

THE POETRY SCHOOL

81/83 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6DX

READING POEMS IN THEIR TIME AND PLACE

Why do poets write the poems they do when they do ?

Ranging across the centuries and around the world, Graham picks characteristic poems from thirty poets and presents them to you – to begin with – anonymously. Studying them line by line, you’ll unearth ideas about their place in history and the poet’s life, and explore the literary, cultural and social conditions out of which they came. A relaxed and friendly close reading course.

Like each new term, each evening session is completely self-contained, a feature of the course also appreciated by those who decide to join it in January or April.

The first part of the evening is spent getting a sense of the time and place in which the poem seems to have been written and so who might have written it. From the moment when the identity of the poet has been guessed or revealed, the group has to re-think much of what has already been said, often discovering some unimaginably fascinating parallels between the not-quite-on-the-mark guesses already made and the actual poet in his or her time and place. So, for instance, a sense of civil war or non-Englishness can lead to a solution which has both of these features though not quite as expected.

Poets whose work you will read might include Anna Akhmatova, W H Auden, Basho, Anne Bradstreet, Bei Dao, Edward Brathwaite, the Countess of Dia, Emily Dickinson, T S Eliot, Jorie Graham, W S Graham, Seamus Heaney, George Herbert, G M Hopkins, Horace, Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Jennings, Ivan Lalic, Mallarmé, Eugenio Montale, Les A Murray, Alice Oswald, Pindar, Ezra Pound, Rilke, Leopold Senghor, Shelley, Wallace Stevens, Tennyson, W B Yeats and others.

Enquiries and bookings to: 0845 223 5274

Bookings: www.poetryschool.com

Saturday 25th April 2009, 1030am-430pm

FERRAR HOUSE, LITTLE GIDDING, CAMBRIDGESHIRE

POETRY PLACES 5 - booking now open, 9 tickets already sold, 15 tickets still available

ELIOT’S LITTLE GIDDING DAY 2009

DAY EVENT WITH TAUGHT AND GUIDED SESSIONS

What brought T S Eliot to the village of Little Gidding in 1936, and why, 6 years later in the middle of the war, did he decide to make it the setting and presiding spirit of the fourth and last of his celebrated Four Quartets ?  On location in Ferrar House and Little Gidding Church, Graham Fawcett will seek to recreate the poet’s own experience of this place, and point to clues in the poet’s life and work and his choice of moods and images, to help unravel the mysteries of Eliot’s Little Gidding. Highlights of the morning and afternoon of this Spring day will include a close reading, one by one spaced through the day, of the five ‘movements’ of what is widely believed to be his finest work.

The cost of the day will be £35 for the teaching sessions (or £25* concessionary rate for 18 years & under, senior citizens, full-time students, unwaged - ES40 - and disabled)  and a further £20 for coffee, lunch, and tea at Ferrar House. For rail-travellers, a mini-bus can be arranged from Huntingdon Rail Station to Little Gidding for between £4.50 and £7 each way per head. Please make your cheque, for £55 or £45 concessionary rate, payable to Graham Fawcett and send it with the completed booking form to him at 2 Harpur Mews, London WC1N 3PE. You will then be sent your ticket(s) for the day.

Enquiries to:020 7405 3997 or grahamkfawcett@gmail.com

COMMENTS FROM THOSE WHO CAME TO THE FIRST 'ELIOT'S LITTLE GIDDING DAY' IN OCTOBER 2008

Thank you for a really splendid day last Saturday - so much to mull over and follow up - and Little Gidding itself and the

surrounding landscape in the sun were such a pleasure, not to mention the food and general welcome.

Sue MacIntyre

I wanted to say thank you personally for yesterday's day with TSE. . . It was marvellous and revealed so much to me about a poem which travels with me everywhere

Debbie Price (Brisbane)

It was a most enjoyable and stimulating occasion, and I especially appreciated your skill and sensitivity in addressing different perspectives and contributions given. I did not catch the name of the author of the last piece you read in the church and wonder if you could let me have it so I could follow it up.?  I am the person who said nothing ...but I hope learned much!

Anne Ackroyd

It was a great session – so lively and enlightening, and you were so informative.  I hadn’t read Eliot in any detail for years and years, and it made me aware of so much about his writing, and anxious to go back and read more.  You gave us all so much to think about and mull over and go off and pursue further.  Thanks for that.  What I realised when re-reading the Quartets on the train(s) up to Huntingdon was just how much of Eliot has become part of my mental landscape – a bit like the Bible and Shakespeare..  I kept finding myself muttering, “Oh, of course, that’s where that quotation comes from !” 

Joan McGavin

Click here for booking form for April 25th 2009

JOURNEY PLANNING

The Ferrar House web-site (click on Location) gives a clear indication of where the house is.

Those travelling by public transport are advised to get to Sawtry Green by 0935am, from where lifts can be arranged - if you give Graham Fawcett as much notice as possible by e-mail - for the final leg to Little Gidding. The 0845 bus from Peterborough Queensgate Bus Station arrives at Sawtry Green at, or just before, 0930am. Or you may like to get in touch via this web-site with others who would like to share a taxi from either Peterborough or Huntingdon (in which case let Graham Fawcett know).

Those who would otherwise need to travel by public transport from London may be able to find a lift with those who are driving to Little Gidding. Please let Graham Fawcett know by e-mail if you would like a lift from London, or are driving from London and able to take passengers, or if you are a car driver, will be passing through Sawtry Green at 0930am and can offer a lift to train/ bus passengers, .

Coffee will be served at Ferrar House from 10am, and the day begins at 1030am.

Friday 15th to Sunday 17th May 2009

St IVES AND ZENNOR (CORNWALL)

THE POETRY SCHOOL

St Ives and Zennor - a weekend of poetry walks, talks and workshops

with Tammy Yoseloff and Graham Fawcett

In the early twentieth century, writers and artists converged on the small Cornish village of St Ives, inspired by its rugged coastline. During this weekend of talks, walks and writing workshops, Graham Fawcett and Tamar Yoseloff will examine the influence of St Ives on poets, notably W S Graham, David Wright, Jack Clemo and George Barker, and artists such as Alfred Wallis and Barbara Hepworth; and will look towards the landscape of St Ives and Zennor as a springboard for new poems of your own. Sea air, inspiration and good company!

More details of locations and meals etc will be provided at the time of booking, but here is the outline of the weekend's activities.

Friday Evening Reading

Graham and Tamar will provide an introduction to the weekend and will read prose and poetry inspired by St Ives and the surrounding coast by W S Graham, Virginia Woolf, D H Lawrence and Jack Clemo with more than one glance back into the remoter Celtic days of Tristan and Isolde, Arthur, The Lady With the Lantern and The White Horse of Porthgwidden in the atmospheric setting of the St Ives Arts Club, a gathering point for artists since the nineteenth century.

Time: 8-9.30pm

Fee: £10 (£8 concs) 18 places booked, 7 remaining

Saturday Morning Walk 

Graham guides you on a walk through Zennor and its surrounding countryside.  If one writer could be said to have put Zennor firmly on the literary map, it is D H Lawrence, who lived here with Frieda – and wrote Women in Love - during 1915 and 1916 in a row of cottages, still standing, where Katharine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry joined them. Beginning outside – and, with luck, even inside – the Lawrences’ front door, we will retell their story here and then retrace their path across the fields to Zennor Churchtown, taking in the beautiful church and its legend, the churchyard and its famous denizens, and the breathtaking views along the coast and out to sea from Zennor Head, with coffee and lunch breaks at Zennor’s only pub, beloved of and frequented by all of this weekend’s poets.   An energising but not too demanding walk, with plenty of time to stop and admire the landscape, and to muse on the inspiration it provided to local writers and artists.

Time: 9.30am-12.45pm

Fee: £25 (£20 concs)  18 places booked, 7 remaining

Saturday Afternoon Writing Workshop (16 places) 

A visit to visit Tate St Ives, where Tamar will discuss the impact of landscape on artists such as Alfred Wallis, Ben Nicholson, Patrick Heron and Roger Hilton, and you will start to think about poems of your own informed by the paintings in the collection.

Time: 2.30-5.20pm

Fee: £30 (£25 concs) + entry fee*   12 places booked, 4 remaining

Saturday Late Afternoon Walk 

A short narrated walk through the centre of St Ives. Graham tells the on–location story of Alfred Wallis and the Porthmeor studios and reveals how other significant addresses along the waterfront and through the narrow lanes of the town also fit into the picture of word and image waiting to be pieced together to bring that St Ives alive again on this gentle walking tour.

Time: 5.30-6.30pm

Fee: £10 (£8 concs)  18 places booked, 7 remaining

Sunday Morning Writing Workshop (16 places)

At the Barbara Hepworth Museum, Tamar will discuss Hepworth's work as a basis for new poems. You will have time to write and also to read out poems they have written over the course of the weekend.

Time: 10am-1pm

Fee: £30 (£25 concs) + entry fee*    12 places booked, 4 remaining

Special Offer for the Whole Weekend - £100 (£80 concs)

There will be more than 16 places for the walks and reading, so non-writing partners and friends are welcome to attend those parts of the weekend if you'd like to make a holiday of it.

* entry fees to both galleries together will be £9 at most.

How to Book - please send a cheque to the Poetry School, 81 Lambeth Walk, London SE11 6DX or call 0207 582 1679 with a credit or debit card.

Accommodation - a huge range of hotels, B&Bs and self catering apartments to be had at http://www.stives-cornwall.co.uk/ - boutique to budget!

Travel - http://www.stives-cornwall.co.uk/how-to-get-to-stives.html . Booked far enough in advance, train tickets (from London Paddington) can cost as little as £15 each way.

Travelling Alone / Travelling Together - if you would like us to put you in touch with other students, so you have a friendly person to travel with, or share petrol costs, or stay with in a hotel - let us know when you book.

Enquiries and bookings to: 0845 223 5274

Bookings: www.poetryschool.com

Friday 5th to Sunday 7th June 2009

OLD RECTORY, TATTINGSTONE, NEAR IPSWICH, SUFFOLK
ARTS IN RESIDENCE

SIBELIUS AND THE KALEVALA

with Terry Barfoot and Graham Fawcett

The course

A country doctor once travelled through rural Finland in search of ancient poems, songs and stories to turn into a Finnish national epic to rival Homer. This weekend we will hear what happened when Sibelius read this great poem, the Kalevala, and listen to the music inspired by it, some of the best he ever wrote.

The house

The Old Rectory is a Georgian (1823) Grade II listed building set in two acres in the small country village of Tattingstone, five miles south of Ipswich. The house is very close to Constable country: Flatford Mill, Dedham, Pinmill, Woodbridge, Snape and Aldeburgh are all nearby. The surrounding Suffolk countryside consists of gently undulating farmland, while the extensive coastline and its many estuaries provide a varied landscape, a wealth of wildlife and many natural attractions. The rooms are spacious and comfortable, many with en suite facilities, and original features abound.

Terry Barfoot writes widely on music for Britain's leading journals, orchestras, festivals and record companies. He lectures at venues throughout the country and is Publications Consultant to the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

Graham Fawcett has broadcast on music and literature for BBC Radio 3 over the last 25 years. His many documentaries and opera/concert relay interval features include two on Sibelius and the Kalevala from Helsinki and the Russo-Finnish enclave of Archangel Karelia in Western Russia. He teaches world poetry for The Poetry School.

The weekend

Course members will arrive on Friday at 5pm and depart after tea on Sunday. The weekend is designed as an informal house party. Arts in Residence offers an excellent cuisine including a four course dinner with wine each evening, and a traditional Sunday lunch.

Price: £270.00 per person (twin/double rooms), £295.00 (single rooms)

to include all meals, wine, beverages, course fees and accommodation.

Booking: Arts in Residence, 25, Mulberry Lane, Cosham, Portsmouth, PO6 2QU. 

£50.00 per person deposit with booking. (Cheques payable to Arts in Residence.)

Enquiries: 02392 383356               

Email: info@artsinresidence.co.uk
Web: www.artsinresidence.co.uk

SIBELIUS AND THE KALEVALA

Friday
5:00 pm	Assemble and welcome
7:00	Aperitifs
7:30	Dinner
After dinner:	En Saga, Opus 9
Saturday
8:15 am	Breakfast
9:30	Luonnotar, Opus 70
	Kullervo, Opus 7
10:45	Coffee
11:15	Kullervo (continued)
12:30 pm	Lunch
4:00	Tea
4:30	Lemminkaïnen Legends, Opus 22
7:00	Aperitifs
7:30	Dinner
After dinner:	Einojuhani Rautavaara: Cantus Arcticus
	Jean Sibelius: Scene with Cranes, Opus 44 No: 2
	Uuno Klami: Kalevala Suite, Opus 23
	Sibelius: a selection of piano music and songs
Sunday
8:15 am	Breakfast
9:30	Night Ride and Sunrise, Opus 55
	Pohjola’s Daughter, Opus 49
	The Bard, Opus 64
10:45	Coffee
11:15	Violin Concerto, Opus 47
12:30 pm	Lunch
2:15	Rakastava, Opus 14
	Vaino Virsi, Opus 110
	Tapiola, Opus 112
3:30	Departure

www.artsinresidence.co.uk

Saturday 13th June 2009, 10:30 am - 4:30 pm

LONDON AND CHALFONT ST GILES

THE POETRY SCHOOL

POETS' LONDON – John Milton

with Graham Fawcett

The morning will be devoted to tracking down - whether house, lodging or hiding-place - the sites of what were once Milton’s London addresses - including the place where he hid to escape the scaffold and the setting in which he completed Paradise Lost from Westminster to Finsbury and so opening doors on a public and private world of tremendous upheaval and almost unimaginable single-mindedness.

Then, after lunch, so as to find out what it was like to be at home with the poet, we travel to Chalfont St Giles and the house, still standing, where, in 1665 and with his family, he took refuge from the Plague, and completed Paradise Lost, rare editions of which can be seen here together with many relics of Milton’s daily life over five years.

Enquiries and bookings to: 0845 223 5274

Bookings: www.poetryschool.com/

COMMENT ON THE LAST POETS’ LONDON – POUND AND YEATS DAY IN 2008

“It was a very interesting day indeed.  Especially everything to do with Yeats and his Mondays, which you really brought to life”  Robert Chandler

2010

FLORENCE, ITALY
POETRY PLACES 1 – (dates to be announced)

Milton & Galileo in Florence
A weekend recreating Galileo's life and work in Florence and the atmosphere in the city leading up to the moment when the young John Milton came to visit him under house arrest here in 1638, and the impact it had on his poetry, notably Paradise Lost - with specially arranged access to Galileo's own notebooks in the Florence National Library's Galileo archive and to his villa overlooking the city, a visit to the Galileo collection (including his two surviving handmade telescopes) in the Museum of the History of Science, and a walk into the hills retracing Galileo's footsteps. Information will be available about flights and accommodation.

Comments from students on the first Milton and Galileo weekend
"It was a truly wonder-filled trip, and I'm very grateful to you for organising it."
Vishal Pathak

"Thank you for our wonderful visit to Florence. The people and times we were thinking about - 1638 and all that - still feel very vivid and tangible. I've been catching up on Dava Sobell's book, recognising Galileo's houses as they crop up in the book, how they look now, and remembering the views you can see from there. I've been trying to tell people about what we did. It was breathtaking to be able to see Galileo's manuscripts and his drawings of the moon with our group in the back room of the library . . . "
Lucy Moy-Thomas

"I would like to add how much Neil and I enjoyed the week-end in Florence. Neil has waxed lyrical over the firm's intranet."
Frances Spurrier

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RECANATI (NEAR ANCONA), ITALY
POETRY PLACES 4 – (dates to be announced)

Giacomo Leopardi weekend
Within sight of the Adriatic in the lovely medieval hill-town where Leopardi was born and lived nearly all of his life, a weekend in which to enjoy the poems of Leopardi where they were written and set, and to reflect on the challenges involved in translating him. There will be specially arranged visits to Palazzo Leopardi where the Leopardi family still live and to the Centre for Leopardi Studies, both of which also offer excellent exhibitions on the poet's life and works.

Comments from students on the first Giacomo Leopardi in Recanati weekend:

Thank you very much indeed for such an interesting and enriching Recanati visit. A real pleasure.

Madeleine David

I very much enjoyed the Recanati session. I feel that I know Leopardi, the man, much more now after your talks and that wonderful introduction to the libraries we were given, and when I wander round the town in the future (usually on Sunday mornings to browse round the antique/junk market ) I'll have a stronger and even more distinct impression of Leopardi's presence.  It should also send me back to his poetry.

Caroline Maldonado

I wanted to say a big thank you for a great weekend. I learned a lot and am grateful for how much you gave to all of us of your time and enthusiasm. I also really valued the time to reflect away from the pressures, and that has been a bonus for me!

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