- 31 May -30 June 2024
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- Non-fiction
Tradition as Innovation
Join writer, songwriter, teacher, performer and Creative Writing Investigator Adrian May, and poet, translator and writer Philip Terry as they talk about their latest books.
Venue: St Leonard’s Church, Hythe Hill, Colchester, CO1 2NP
Date and time: Friday 10th June, 7.00pm
Tickets: £8 / £7 concessions (Students, Under 27s and Jobseekers)
Box Office: Book online or via Mercury Theatre 01206 573948 (10am – 8pm Tuesday to Saturday)
Parking: Parking available nearby at Hythe Community Centre, 1 Ventura Drive, CO1 2FG
Adrian’s Tradition in Creative Writing: Finding Inspiration Through Your Roots encourages writers to rediscover sources of creativity in the everyday and addresses a key question for many beginning writers: Where do you get your ideas from?
Philip Terry’s latest book is his edition of Jean-Luc Champerret’s The Lascaux Notebooks, the first ever anthology of Ice Age poetry drawn from the cave drawings and inscriptions at Lascaux, unpacking their meaning and resonance in the 21st Century.
Buy a copy of The Lascaux Notebooks from bookshop.org
About the Authors
Philip Terry was born in Belfast, and is a poet, translator, and a writer of fiction. He has translated the work of Georges Perec, Michèle Métail and Raymond Queneau, and is the author of the novel tapestry, shortlisted for the Goldsmiths Prize. His poetry and experimental translations include Oulipoems, Quennets, Dante’s Inferno, and Dictator, a version of the Epic of Gilgamesh in Globish. The Penguin Book of Oulipo, which he edited, was published in Penguin Modern Classics in 2020, and Carcanet published his edition of Jean-Luc Champerret’s The Lascaux Notebooks, the first ever anthology of Ice Age poetry, in March 2022.
Adrian May is a writer, songwriter, teacher, performer and Creative Writing Investigator. Adrian taught writing for 20 years at Essex University, has a long career in folk music, is a member of Face Furniture, Potiphar’s Apprentices and other acoustic bands. He writes songs, poems, essays and books on writing. He is old, and a folkie, but so what?
