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Cymbeline is a wild tale of heroic princesses, jealous men, stolen infants, and scheming Queens. This is one of Shakespeare’s greatest but most under-performed plays, featuring riveting scenes filled with exquisite verse.
Continue reading “Casting Call: Join YSP’s Original Practice Production of Shakespeare’s Cymberline”
York St John University Creative Fellows return to York St John to talk about their work performing in Shakespeare’s plays.
Continue reading “Event: Celebrated Actors on Campus to Discuss Performing Shakespeare, 28 Nov”
Continue reading “Book Launch: Spells: 21st-Century Occult Poetry, 29 November”
Thank you to colleagues in Creative Writing for inviting us all to the launch of the third annual edition of the York Literary Review! Please see below a message from Dr Caleb Klaces.
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Join our new colleague, Dr Alex Wylie, for the debut of his new poetry collection, Secular Games.
Continue reading “Book Launch: Secular Games, a New Poetry Collection by Alex Wylie”
By Ethan Newton-Hamer
As Comic Week draws to a close, Ethan Newton-Hamer reflects on the current ‘age of superheroes’ and ponders what it is that makes a great comic book adaptation.
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By Charlotte Crawshaw
Last week, Drs Adam Smith and Jo Waugh accompanied a group of students to York Explore Archive to consult a collection of texts printed in York in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Guest blogger Charlotte Crawshaw reports.
By Freya Bainbridge
As York St John University marks Black History Month, Freya reconsiders the work of Zadie Smith.
Continue reading “Black History Month: Changing My Mind, Reflections on the Writing of Zadie Smith”
By Erin Byrne
On Thursday 11th October, Dr Jo Waugh delivered the Literature Programme’s annual ‘Words Matter’ lecture, this year exploring the topic of Literature and Contagion. Regular Blog Writer Erin Bryne was on the scene.
Thank you to Gemma Linfoot-King for getting in ouch to let us know about these important forthcoming student opportunities, offered as part of the All About Respect initiative.
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By Ella Bramhall
This week, as part of ‘Libraries Week’, ILE has been celebrating the power of reading for wellbeing. As the week draws to a close, Ella Bramhall asks: Why do we read for comfort anyway?
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By Lucy Pettigrew
From 8-12 October (THIS WEEK!) York St John University is holding its inaugural ‘Comfort Reads Week’, hosted by ILE as part of Libraries Week. This week of events seeks to celebrate and explore the power of reading for wellbeing. To get in the mood, we asked our students to tell us about their favourite comfort reads. In this post, Lucy Pettigrew shares her love for Ned Vizzini’s It’s a Kind of Funny Story.
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By Ellie Anderson-Ingham
From 8-12 October (THIS WEEK!) York St John University is holding its inaugural ‘Comfort Reads Week’, hosted by ILE as part of Libraries Week. This week of events seeks to celebrate and explore the power of reading for wellbeing. To get in the mood, we asked our students to tell us about their favourite comfort reads. In this post, Ellie Anderson-Ingham shares her love of Marina Keegan’s The Opposite of Loneliness.
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‘Words Matter’ is our Literature Programme blog, a dedicated space for our students, staff and alumni. Check here for the latest news on forth-coming events and for opinion, commentary and reviews by your peers on the programme. The blog also explores, celebrates and promotes the ethos of our programme team, which is the belief that literature provides the means of interrogating and understanding the world we live in. We are therefore interested in exploring what literature can tell us about identity, politics and culture.
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As some of you might know, this Saturday is National Bookshop Day. This means that across the weekend, specifically October 8th, there will be lots of book related events going on across the country such as author readings, signings and such. It’s an occasion to show your local bookshop some love as, whilst Amazon is convenient and easy to access online, there is nothing like going for a browse at your local store. There is a community there, a tangible hum to all of those spines full of potential calling out ‘pick me’. Every penny we spend there goes towards keeping those sanctuaries in place and making sure they remain on our high streets for the long run.
Continue reading “Seven Books to Buy on National #BookshopDay!”