Event Details
Date: March 18, 2021
Start time: 07:00 p.m.
End time: 08:00 p.m.
Venue: Online
Phone: 01484951108
Email: info@huddlitfest.org.uk
Online talk: Heather Clark & Dave Haslam: Sylvia Plath
£0.00 – £5.00
Date: Thursday 18 March at 7pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
£5 general sale or free to University of Huddersfield staff and students
Join Prof Heather Clark and Dave Haslam for a discussion about Sylvia Plath’s life, work and legacy.
Heather Clark is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the University of Huddersfield, and the author of Red Comet: The short life and blazing art of Sylvia Plath, a balanced and comprehensive biography featuring a wealth of new material about the poet. “A first-class biography… Red Comet is a mighty achievement. Clark is compassionate, clear-eyed, sceptical. Each chapter reads with the ease of a novel… I couldn’t put it down.” The Times
Dave Haslam is a writer, broadcaster, and former Hacienda DJ. His limited-edition small format book My Second Home: Sylvia Plath in Paris, 1956 is about a crucial period in the poet’s life just before she married Ted Hughes – specifically her visits to the French capital. My Second Home is the fourth book in Haslam’s small format series (previous subjects include vinyl collecting, Keith Haring, and Courtney Love). He’s also authored five full-length books and his journalism has appeared in the Guardian, the LRB, the Face and elsewhere.
This event will take place on Zoom and we will email you a link prior to the event. If you haven’t used Zoom before, don’t worry! A guide to using Zoom will be up on our website shortly, along with a date for a free Zoom training session.
Please support independent bookshops – order your books from our partners Read bookshop and Fox Lane Books.
Description
Heather Clark earned her bachelor’s degree in English Literature from Harvard University and her doctorate in English from Oxford University. She is the author of two award-winning books on post-war poetry, The Grief of Influence: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes and The Ulster Renaissance: Poetry in Belfast 1962–1972. She divides her time between Chappaqua, New York, and Yorkshire, England, where she is Professor of Contemporary Poetry at the University of Huddersfield.
Dave Haslam is a writer, broadcaster, and former Hacienda DJ. His limited-edition small format book My Second Home: Sylvia Plath in Paris, 1956 is about a crucial period in the poet’s life just before she married Ted Hughes – specifically her visits to the French capital, where Plath enjoyed moments of loneliness, but also moments of joy (including, as Haslam puts it, feeling elated “looking chic on the sunny side of the street”). My Second Home is the fourth book in Haslam’s small format series (previous subjects include vinyl collecting, Keith Haring, and Courtney Love). He’s also authored five full-length books and his journalism has appeared in the Guardian, the LRB, the Face and elsewhere. For a full biography see: http://www.davehaslam.com/#/dave-haslam-short-biog/
Additional information
| Date | 18 March 2021 |
|---|---|
| Time | 7pm-8pm |
| Cost | £5, FREE |
| Venue | ONLINE |
| Ticket Type | University of Huddersfield staff or student, Full Price |
You may also like…
-
Online Workshop: Fiery Flash Fiction with Meg Pokrass
Early bird offer: tickets only £10 up to 28 February
Date: Thursday 25 March at 1pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
Learning to write flash fiction is like becoming a mad inventor. Experimentation is the key to success. About the allure of flash fiction, Jayne Anne Philips says: “…the realized one-page fiction must move palpably beyond the page, like a ghost self… should hang in the air of the mind like an image made of smoke.”
In this prompt-driven, work-generative workshop, we’ll discuss:
- The necessary spring-board of strong first lines
- Use of vivid sensory detail and why it seduces the reader
- Bothering you characters – defining conflict in tight prose
- Trusting the reader
- Inventive structure
- Where to publish flash fiction
There will be timed writing exercises. Have your writing pads to hand and get ready to write up a storm.
Meg Pokrass is the author of five flash fiction collections and two novellas-in-flash. Her work has appeared in anthologies and magazines worldwide.
This event will take place on Zoom and we will email you a link prior to the event. If you haven’t used Zoom before, don’t worry! A guide to using Zoom will be up on our website shortly, along with a date for a free Zoom training session.
Limited to 20 participants; please book early to avoid disappointment.
Please support independent bookshops – order your books from our partners Read bookshop and Fox Lane Books.
£15.00£10.00 -
Online workshop: Poetry with Kei Miller
Early bird offer: tickets are just £10 up to 28 February
Date: Saturday 27 March at 2:30pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
A poetry masterclass with multi-award-winning poet Kei Miller.
Kei Miller was born in Jamaica in 1978. His 2014 collection, The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion, won the Forward Prize for Best Collection while his 2017 Novel, Augustown, won the Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature, the Prix Les Afriques, and the Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde. He is also an award-winning essayist. Kei has an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University and a PhD in English Literature from the University of Glasgow. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Kei appears courtesy of Renaissance One.
This event will take place on Zoom and we will email you a link prior to the event. If you haven’t used Zoom before, don’t worry! A guide to using Zoom will be up on our website shortly, along with a date for a free Zoom training session.
Please support independent bookshops – order your books from our partners Read bookshop and Fox Lane Books.
£15.00£10.00
Related products
-
Online performance: Lockdown poems + Open Mic
£0.00 – £5.00Date: Tuesday 23 March at 1pm (Open Mic begins at 2pm)
Venue: Online via Zoom
On the anniversary of the first lockdown, join multi-award-winning poet, novelist and essayist Kei Miller (The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion, Augustown, In Nearby Bushes), poet and playwright Chérie Taylor Battiste (Lioness) and poet, playwright and creative writing tutor Michelle Scally Clarke (I Am, She Is) for a special online performance of poems about lockdown, resilience and our Festival theme of ‘Escape’. Kei Miller appears courtesy of Renaissance One.
The event will include a Q&A with the poets and the premiere of the second of three films in the #OutBreakOut series by Dark Horse Theatre, commissioned by HLF for this year’s Festival.
From 2pm-3pm, there will a chance for participants to perform their own work in a welcoming and friendly Open Mic session, led by the Talking Zebras group.
This event will take place on Zoom and we will email you a link prior to the event. If you haven’t used Zoom before, don’t worry! A guide to using Zoom will be up on our website shortly, along with a date for a free Zoom training session.
Please support independent bookshops – order your books from our partners Read bookshop and Fox Lane Books.
-
Amanda Owen: The Yorkshire Shepherdess (Holmfirth)
£7.00 – £10.00Venue: Holmfirth Civic Hall, Huddersfield Road HD9 3ASWe are very sorry to announce that, having reviewed the current Covid risks and restrictions, we have made the difficult decision to postpone this event to later in 2021 (date tbc).
While tickets will remain valid for a future date, if you would prefer a refund, please send your name and details of the ticket(s) you hold to: info@huddlitfest.org.ukWe are sorry, this event is now sold out. Please take a look at our EVENTS PAGE to find out about other forthcoming events at the Festival.
From teenage Goth in Huddersfield to rural sheep farmer…
Star of the C5 series, Our Yorkshire Farm, Amanda Owen grew up in Huddersfield but was inspired by the James Herriot books to find work as a shepherdess, cow milker and alpaca shearer. Today, she runs a 2,000-acre sheep farm at Ravenseat in the Yorkshire Dales, along with her husband Clive and nine children.
A Sunday Times bestselling author, Amanda has entertained readers with her trademark Yorkshire grit and humour in The Yorkshire Shepherdess and A Year in the Life of the Yorkshire Shepherdess. Her latest book, Adventures of the Yorkshire Shepherdess, is an uplifting and inspiring update on life on the farm, from facing the brutal winter of 2018 to renovating an old farmhouse as a new family home.
Voted ‘Yorkshirewoman of the Year’ by The Dalesman magazine, Amanda has also appeared on ITV’s Countrywise and The Dales, and in Ben Fogle’s New Lives in the Wild.
Amanda will be interviewed by BBC Radio York presenter Jeremy Buxton.
No age restrictions (Under 16s should be accompanied by an adult).
For accessibility information, please contact the venue on: 01484 682 643.
-
Online workshop: Overcoming Writer’s Block
Early bird offer: £10 up to 28 February
Date: Wednesday 24 March at 7pm
Venue: Online via Zoom
Unleash your creativity with a practical and motivational session of creative writing with author Paul Burston and writer performer Karen McLeod, in a small group workshop of just 12 people.
Are you looking for ways to access writing that feels all locked up inside of you? We’ll practice techniques to move past the fear, get writing and combat those nagging, negative inner voices, leading to a healthier relationship with your creativity.
Paul Burston is the author of six novels, including The Black Path and The Closer I Get, and editor of two short story collections. Paul is curator and host of award-winning LGBTQ+ literary salon Polari and founder of The Polari First Book Prize for debut writers and The Polari Prize for established writers.
Karen McLeod is a published author and established writer and performer. She holds an MA in Creative & Life Writing from Goldsmiths University and has developed a series of popular creative writing courses. Her debut novel, In Search of the Missing Eyelash won the Betty Trask Award.
This workshop will take place on Zoom and we will email you a link prior to the event. If you haven’t used Zoom before, don’t worry! A guide to using Zoom will be up on our website shortly, along with a date for a free Zoom training session.
£15.00£10.00