Notes from a Small Island By Anita Sethi I began writing this blog whilst suspended over the Atlantic Ocean at an altitude of 38, 000 feet, on a journey from the sceptred isle of England to two small but beautifully formed islands, Trinidad & Tobago for the Bocas Lit Fest - fittingly my World Book [...]
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By Anita Sethi I’ve just finished chairing the Southbank Book Club on the Booker Prize-winning novel True History of the Kelly Gang by Peter Carey which provoked some fascinating responses, veering from loving to loathing. The novel is written in a challenging style, stripped of punctuation marks such as the comma, and switching between perspectives and [...]
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By Anita Sethi Celebrating 45 years of Enitharmon Press – An evening with Carol Ann Duffy, Simon Armitage, Helen Dunmore, Michael Longley and Seamus Heaney. “We know we have to fight for small poetry presses; this is a world in which we have to fight for everything we hold dear – including the NHS”, said [...]
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By Anita Sethi A huge map of the world hung on the screen of the Purcell Room during the inspiring and thought-provoking talk, New Maps for an Island Planet. Yet it was the maps of the mind that were also at the heart of the talk as a panel consisting of geographer Doreen Massey, architect Carolyn Steel, [...]
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By Anita Sethi Nadine Gordimer appears at the Southbank Centre on Wednesday 14th March, 7:30pm as the first in a series of events in conjunction with Index on Censorship. I caught up for a chat with the author during her stay in London. Could you explain the title of your new novel, “No Time Like the [...]
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By Anita Sethi The daffodils have nudged their way out of the earth and the sun is straining over the River Thames. Despite the cold, Spring is upon us and and there are plenty of Literature and Spoken Word events to look forward to. My highlights include: Nadine Gordimer I recently chaired the Southbank Centre [...]
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By Anita Sethi www.twitter.com/anitasethi The Southbank is strung with beautiful Winter lights outside, and inside is an enlightening experience, too, as this weekend sees the Economist Books of the Year festival, with a veritable feast of a programme. It got off to a rollicking start with a talk by Edmund de Waal, author of the [...]
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By Anita Sethi www.twitter.com/anitasethi Happy December! It is the season to be jolly, and looking back over the year’s literary calendar, a jolly good literary discipline to celebrate is translation. Indeed a number of literary events this year have reached to the heart of this very subject, from Mourid Barghouti speaking fascinatingly on the issue in connection [...]
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By Anita Sethi www.twitter.com/anitasethi “All the stories that human beings tell are stories of alliance and betrayal”, says Greg Mosse, who runs the Southbank Centre Creative Writing School which will be back in January 2012. I caught up for a chat with Mosse far from the shores of the River Thames, and instead beside the [...]
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