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Eighth Annual TS Eliot Festival, Little Gidding, 6-7 July 2013
Full details of the 2013 TS Eliot Festival have now been released, and advance booking is now open.
Click on the image above to see a larger version – or click here for a printable PDF
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Jeremy Irons to read Four Quartets at Hay Festival, May 2013
Jeremy Irons is to read Four Quartets, in their entirety, at the Hay Festival on Saturday 1st June 2013. For details click here. Irons, who has previously recorded The Waste Land, talked to the Daily Telegraph about reading Eliot here.
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Jacob Epstein bust of TS Eliot on display, April 2013
A rarely-seen 1951 bust of TS Eliot is on display at the National Portrait Gallery, London (Room 33) until November 24th, as part of an exhibition, Jacob Epstein, Portrait Sculptor. Admission is free.
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Manuscript sale, Bonhams, 10th April 2013
A major sale of Poetical Manuscripts and Portraits of Poets includes several items of interest to Eliot enthusiasts.
Chief amongst these is a typescript of Journey of the Magi, dating from 1927, with revisions to the poem in Eliot’s hand. The page is signed with the poet’s initials, and has an estimate of £6-8000. UPDATE: This typescript was sold on the night for a remarkable £44,450 – more than six times its estimate.
The sale also includes several photographs, including those of rare meetings between Eliot and Auden (est £2-3000) and between Eliot and Hughes (est £1200-1800)
Earlier, on 19th March, Bonhams are also auctioning correspondence between Eliot and Methuen concerning publication of The Sacred Wood (est £2-3000); and a First Edition of Four Quartets, signed by TS Eliot (est £1000-1500)
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TS Eliot International Summer School 2013
The Institute of English Studies, University of London is hosting the fifth annual TS Eliot International Summer School between 6-14 July 2013. Applications are now open.
Anyone with an interest in his writings is welcome to participate in this week-long celebration of Eliot’s life and work by some of the most eminent scholars, poets and teachers.
In addition to the academic programme, the School visits Little Gidding (during the Eliot Festival), Burnt Norton and East Coker.
Enquiries, registration and programme information are available here
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Reading of Four Quartets, Michaelhouse, Cambridge, February 2013
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Patrick Heron: Studies for a portrait of TS Eliot National Portrait Gallery (Room 32), St Martin’s Place, London, 26 January-1 September 2013 (Admission free)
Heron’s 1949 portrait of T.S. Eliot is shown alongside rarely seen studies: from life-drawings to experiments in form and colour, revealing the process of abstraction for which the artist is best known. A Daily Telegraph article on the exhibition and its contents can be read here and two of the most interesting, previously unseen studies can be viewed at the foot of the curator’s blog here.
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Annual TS Eliot Cambridge Lecture 2012
Details have been announced of this year’s Annual TS Eliot Cambridge Lecture, to be delivered by Dr Jeremy Noel-Tod on 14th November. For full details click here.
Waste Land – an exhibition by Sally Waterman at the Ruskin Gallery, Anglia Ruskin University, 3-27 October 2012
Waterman employs literary adaptation as a mechanism for self-portraiture, producing photographic and video works that explore memory, place and familial relationships. Waste Land draws upon Eliot’s The Waste Land; Waterman re-interprets the poem to retrieve memories of conflict and separation.
Society members are invited to a Q&A session with the artist at the exhibition on 27 October – see the Members Area for details.
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TS Eliot: A leader on the Mythical Path, 7 October 2012
The Right Rev’d David Walker, Bishop of Dudley, preaches in the Chapel, St John’s College, Cambridge
You can listen to a recording of this here.
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Celebratory TS Eliot Lecture, University of Kent, 26 September 2012
To commemorate the anniversary of Eliot’s birth, Professor Ken Pickering will be giving an evening lecture entitled “In the presence of a masterpiece”, on the background of Murder in the Cathedral. Open to all, drinks to follow; full details here.
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Meeting with Archbishop Rowan Williams at Lambeth Palace, September 2012
A small number of members were invited to Lambeth Palace to meet the Society’s patron, Archbishop Rowan Williams. Among the topics discussed were the relative merits of Eliot’s earlier and later poetry; His Grace believes the later poetry to be more “worked” than the earlier. A photograph of the meeting is in the Members Area.
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TS Eliot’s words to “emerge” in unique Thames Festival installation, September 2012
Fragments from The Waste Land are being “written” on the Thames’ riverside walkway, as part of a new art installation.
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Adult Course, Literature and Creative Writing – Marlborough Summer School, August 2012
Two Great Modern Poets: TS Eliot and WH Auden – With Susan Abbott
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East Coker TS Eliot Event, 15 July 2012
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TS Eliot International Summer School University of London, 7-15 July 2012
The fourth annual T.S. Eliot International Summer School will again bring together a host of the most distinguished international scholars of T.S. Eliot and Modern literature.
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Seventh Annual TS Eliot Festival, Little Gidding, 7-8 July 2012
Talks, readings, music and celebration, with a significant programme of speakers and events, all taking place at Little Gidding itself.
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Forthcoming publication: The Letters of TS Eliot Vol 3 – 1926-1927 5 July 2012
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Eliot’s Little Gidding Day, 3 July 2012
On location in Little Gidding, Graham Fawcett will attempt to recreate Eliot’s own experience of this place, and to unravel the poem.
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Unreal City: A Walk Through London’s Waste Land, London, 23 June 2012
A guided walk inspired by Eliot’s poem
(This walk was subsequently reported in The Guardian here.
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The Cocktail Party, Performed by Theatre Alba
The Netherbow Theatre, Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh, 15 & 16 June 2012
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Reading Group: Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, Kensington Unitarians, London W8 22 May 2012
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TS Eliot and the Dry Salvages, Poetry Day, Orthona, West Dorset 12 May 2012
With Graham Fawcett
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Tutored course: The Development of TS Eliot’s Faith, Norwich Cathedral, 5 May 2012
with Hugh Black-Hawkins
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TS Eliot Poetry Evening, Guildford Cathedral, 21 April 2012
An evening on Four Quartets presented by Kevin Laue
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Public Lecture: The Beauties of TS Eliot, 7 Feb 2012, Durham University
A lecture by Dr Seamus Perry, University of Oxford, in The Persistence of Beauty Lecture Series