What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in February 2019

The snow is on the ground here in the North East, and there is a blizzard of book events in the air for February. Check out our listings for literature in Durham, Newcastle, Teesside, Sunderland and around the North East this month. (And don't forget to subscribe or submit your event to avoid missing out...

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Masters of Deceit: Introducing #SparkQuoteoftheWeek

Before she became a novelist, Muriel Spark worked for the secret wartime agency, the Political Warfare Executive. In a new #SparkQuoteoftheWeek series, doctoral researcher Beatriz Lopez selects quotes that show how forgery, blackmail, technological surveillance and postal censorship permeate her subsequent fiction. The first #SparkQuoteoftheWeek, from her 1959 novel Memento Mori, aptly summarises that Spark’s...

UniSlam Poetry Success

UNISLAM is the UK’s largest poetry slam tournament and poetry summit. Durham University's Poetry Society sent a team to the national competition earlier this month, where they placed third overall, with English Studies undergraduate Prerana Kumar winning the individual Verve Prize for her individual poetry. Over on the University's student blog, Kym Deyn discusses the...

Heating the Human Climate (Public lecture, 25th February)

The Centre for Cultural Ecologies present a free public lecture by Sally Weintrobe on 25th February at 18.00 in Chemistry Building, CG083. Everyone is welcome to attend and booking is not required.  A Fellow of the British Psychoanalytical Society (BPAS), a Chartered Clinical Psychologist (BPS) and a founding member of the Climate Psychology Alliance (CPA),...

What was John Truslove playing at in church?

New Year is a time when we traditionally let our hair down - but back in 1615, in an age of Protestant censure, one might have expected people to behave more conservatively, especially in a church. Not so, says Dr Diana Wyatt, as in the latest Flower of the Month from Records of Early English...

Evelyn Waugh, Catholicism, and America: Hollywood, Death, and the Religious Life (Public Lecture, 12th February)

Join renowned literature scholar Professor Martin Stannard at the next public lecture in the Centre for Catholic Studies' Ushaw College series, where he'll be tracking Evelyn Waugh's encounters with religion in America. All welcome to this free event in Ushaw College on 12th February from 17.30. About the lecture By 1947, the year of his...