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3 FRIDAY
APRIL 2009
Tiffany Atkinson and
Damian Walford Davies
Chaired by Jem Poster
Two Poets
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6pm / Festival Room 2, Christ Church / £7.50
Tiffany Atkinson was winner of the Ottakar’s and
Faber National Poetry Competition and the Cardiff
Academi International Poetry Competition. Her
poems are published widely in journals and anthologies
and her first collection, Kink and Particle, was a
Poetry Book Society Recommendation and winner of
the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Award.
Damian Walford Davies is a lecturer in the English
Department of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth,
where he specialises in English Romanticism, literature
and politics in the age of the French Revolution,
nineteenth and twentieth–century poetry, and the
literatures of Wales. In 2002/03 he won the Ellis Griffith
and L.W. Davies Awards for his scholarly edition of
the prose writings of Waldo Williams.
They will come together to read a selection of their
poems. Chaired by novelist and poet Jem Poster.
Chris Meade, Kate Pullinger
and Bryan Appleyard
Chaired by Lucy Atkins
The Book is Dead:
Long Live the Book
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6pm / McKenna Room, Christ Church / £7.00
Is literature as we know it really moving from printed
page to networked screen – or is this just hype
Our panel will examine the impact of the internet
(the ‘read/write web’), and other new media on the
book. It will debate whether fiction is becoming
interactive, collaborative and non-linear, and how new
technologies such as e-readers and print-on-demand
machines are changing the way we read, write and
consume literature. Panellists include Sunday Times
critic Brian Appleyard, Chris Meade, former director
of the Book Trust, now director of If:Book, a ‘think and
do tank’ exploring the impact of new media on reading
and writing, and writer Kate Pullinger, whose novels
include A Little Stranger and www.inanimatealice.com,
a multimedia graphic novel in episodes.
Sponsored by The Arts Club
Eshan Masood 656
Science and Islam
6pm / Newman Rooms, St Aldates / £7.50
Between the 8th and 14th centuries, scholars and
researchers working in Islamic territories from
Samarkand in modern-day Uzbekistan to Cordoba
in Spain advanced our knowledge of astronomy,
chemistry, engineering, mathematics, medicine and
philosophy to new heights. Ehsan Masood’s Science
and Islam – written to accompany the BBC TV series
of the same name – tells the amazing story of one
of history’s most misunderstood yet rich and fertile
periods in science. An enlightening, enthralling and
in-depth exploration, it charts a religious empire’s
scientific heyday, its intellectual demise and the
numerous debates that now surround it.
Christopher Rush 614
Will
6pm / Festival Room 1, Christ Church / £7.50
The dramatic theme that acclaimed actor
Christopher Rush has chosen for his novel is the
deathbed meeting between Shakespeare and his
lawyer, as they set out his final will and testament.
As Shakespeare answers his lawyer’s questions, he
begins to recall his life, giving us Shakespeare as
we have never seen him before - angry, emotional,
honest, reflective, joyous and despairing. Originally
rejected by 17 publishers, such is the success of the
book, that it is now being transformed into a film
script for Ben Kingsley’s production company by the
multi-BAFTA Award winning writer Charles Wood.
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