{"id":273,"date":"2015-05-27T09:47:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-27T09:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/?p=273"},"modified":"2015-05-27T13:45:34","modified_gmt":"2015-05-27T13:45:34","slug":"stoke-literary-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2015\/05\/27\/stoke-literary-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoke Literary Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma\">Catherine Burgass is presenting an event with Professor Ray Johnson on local poet Arthur Berry at the second Stoke Literary Festival (13th June).\u00a0 <span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">For details go to: <\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokeliteraryfestival.org\/arthur-berry-the-peoples-poet\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.stokeliteraryfestival.org\/arthur-berry-the-peoples-poet\/<\/a><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  wp-image-315 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stokeliteraryfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/ARTHUR-PORTRAIT-PHOTO-0.jpg\" alt=\"ARTHUR - PORTRAIT PHOTO 0\" width=\"352\" height=\"272\" \/><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">The Festival event sold out early on, but tickets to other events may still be available and Ray and Catherine will also be talking\u00a0about Berry at a forthcoming major exhibition: &#8216;Lowry and Berry &#8211; Observers of Urban Life&#8217; at the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery (details to follow).<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: tahoma\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Catherine and Ray have been working on a\u00a0reprint of\u00a0Berry&#8217;s book of poems, <em>Dandelions<\/em>, which should be published in time for the Festival.\u00a0 Catherine was introduced to the work of Arthur Berry by one of our final-year students, Sarah Probyn &#8211; thank you Sarah!<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 On Saturday 6th Catherine is also delivering a paper at the annual Arnold Bennett Conference &#8211; Bennett Abroad.\u00a0 Taking liberties with the conference theme, the paper considers Bennett&#8217;s representation of the Potteries as a &#8216;foreign&#8217; country, with reference to Freud&#8217;s theory of the uncanny.\u00a0 For details go to: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.arnoldbennettsociety.org.uk\/?page_id=5\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.arnoldbennettsociety.org.uk\/?page_id=5<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: Tahoma\"> .<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Catherine Burgass is presenting an event with Professor Ray Johnson on local poet Arthur Berry at the second Stoke Literary Festival (13th June).\u00a0 For details go to: http:\/\/www.stokeliteraryfestival.org\/arthur-berry-the-peoples-poet\/ \u00a0 The Festival event sold out early on, but tickets to other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2015\/05\/27\/stoke-literary-festival\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3710,3626],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":280,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions\/280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}