Spirits, Salons & Sanctuary
Saturday 21 June
St Leonard-at-the-Hythe Church, Colchester
An afternoon exploring Spirits, Salons and Sanctuary in the church of St Leonards through new books by poet and translator Philip Terry, poet and novelist Clare Pollard, and cultural historian, mythographer and writer Marina Warner.
These events are kindly supported by The Bean Trust.
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Tickets £12 per event or all 3 events for £30 (Concessions £10 per event or all 3 events for £26).
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1.00pm – Philip Terry, Dante’s Purgatorio
2.30pm – Clare Pollard, The Modern Fairies
4.30pm – Marina Warner, Sanctuary
Philip Terry in conversation with Marina Warner
Dante’s Purgatorio
Saturday 21 June, 1.00pm
A sequel to Dante’s Inferno, which set Dante at the University of Essex, Dante’s Purgatorio relocates to Mersea Island, where a mountain is constructed out of Flexible Rock Substitute (FRS).
“This new reworking of Dante’s masterpiece is remarkable: for boldness, resourceful inventiveness, and…for its emotional and moral heft.”
– Ralph Pite
Clare Pollard in conversation with Holly Pester
The Modern Fairies
Saturday 21 June, 2.30pm
Award-winning poet and playwright Clare Pollard will discuss her brilliant and bawdy, romantic and provocative, dazzling novel, The Modern Fairies which is inspired by real events, about the delights and dangers of storytelling in dark times.
Marina Warner in conversation with Ros Green
Sanctuary
Saturday 21 June, 4.30pm
English historian, mythographer, and author of Inventory of A Life Mislaid, Marina Warner will discuss her latest book about sanctuary: what it means for people in desperate situations today, and what refuge and displacement has meant for people throughout history, and the canons of literature and myth.