Catherine Burgass is presenting an event with Professor Ray Johnson on local poet Arthur Berry at the second Stoke Literary Festival (13th June). For details go to:
The Festival event sold out early on, but tickets to other events may still be available and Ray and Catherine will also be talking about Berry at a forthcoming major exhibition: ‘Lowry and Berry – Observers of Urban Life’ at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery (details to follow).
Catherine and Ray have been working on a reprint of Berry’s book of poems, Dandelions, which should be published in time for the Festival. Catherine was introduced to the work of Arthur Berry by one of our final-year students, Sarah Probyn – thank you Sarah!
On Saturday 6th Catherine is also delivering a paper at the annual Arnold Bennett Conference – Bennett Abroad. Taking liberties with the conference theme, the paper considers Bennett’s representation of the Potteries as a ‘foreign’ country, with reference to Freud’s theory of the uncanny. For details go to: http://www.arnoldbennettsociety.org.uk/?page_id=5
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