{"id":291,"date":"2015-06-23T10:35:45","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T10:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/?p=291"},"modified":"2015-10-06T13:47:40","modified_gmt":"2015-10-06T13:47:40","slug":"stoke-literary-festival-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2015\/06\/23\/stoke-literary-festival-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoke Literary Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family: tahoma\">Here are Catherine Burgass and Ray Johnson presenting their\u00a0talk on &#8216;Arthur Berry &#8211; People&#8217;s Poet&#8217;\u00a0at the second Hot Air Literary Festival (13th June): <\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"fbPhotoImage\" class=\"fbPhotoImage img aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net\/hphotos-xta1\/v\/t1.0-9\/s720x720\/11062786_1687730454781530_1871146631541122911_n.jpg?oh=a4c90ce99de172f851f6986bc849d191&amp;oe=56342101\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"354\" \/><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: tahoma\">Ray and Catherine discussed Berry&#8217;s painting, poetry and plays, all of which articulate strongly a sense of regional idenitity, via images, film clips and dramatic readings.\u00a0 They also launched a new edition of Berry&#8217;s poetry collection <em>Dandelions<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmarchive.org.uk\/products\/dandelions\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.filmarchive.org.uk\/products\/dandelions<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family: tahoma\">Catherine was particularly excited to meet Margaret Drabble &#8211; taught on this year&#8217;s feminism module From Rage to Page.\u00a0\u00a0Interviewed by Sathnam Sanghera about her most recent novel <em>The Pure Gold Baby<\/em>, Drabble clearly believed that conditions for women had improved significantly since the 1960s.\u00a0 Catherine was able to get her mother&#8217;s original 1960s paperbacks signed and let\u00a0Dame Margaret\u00a0know that the political issues dramatised in these second-wave feminist fictions still speak to women of today, if student response is anything to go by!<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are Catherine Burgass and Ray Johnson presenting their\u00a0talk on &#8216;Arthur Berry &#8211; People&#8217;s Poet&#8217;\u00a0at the second Hot Air Literary Festival (13th June): Ray and Catherine discussed Berry&#8217;s painting, poetry and plays, all of which articulate strongly a sense of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/2015\/06\/23\/stoke-literary-festival-2\/\">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":[3710,3626,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-projects","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","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=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.staffs.ac.uk\/ecw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}