Select your tickets below. Tickets include a pre or post talk drink at Tom’s Kitchen bar.
Geoff Dyer
“I have always been intrigued by this painting but if I had even the faintest idea why I would have no desire to talk about it. You are coming to find out what I think is special about it. Me too. See you there.”
Geoff Dyer’s books include But Beautiful, Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered To Do It, Paris Trance, The Missing of the Somme, The Ongoing Moment, Out of Sheer Rage and Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi.
His many awards include a Somerset Maugham Prize, the E. M. Forster Award and a Lannan Literary Fellowship. His second collection of essays, Working the Room, was published by Canongate in 2010. A new book, Zona, about Andrei Tarkovsky’s film Stalker, will be published early next year (also Canongate).
Geoff Dyer will talk about Cranach’s
Adam and Eve. Find out more about Geoff on his
website, read his feature in
The Guardian.
Blake Morrison
“I've always been intrigued by Manet's 'Déjeuner sur l'Herbe' (I once wrote a poem loosely based on it) and want to explore what makes it so intriguing. The setting, the clothes (or lack of clothes), the composition of the figures - there's a mystery about them, and a sense of mystery is important in painting, as in poetry. How realist is it? How finished? And what were Manet's intentions? In his day, the painting caused controversy. Do we still feel shocked looking at it today?”
Blake Morrison’s books include two collections of poetry, Dark Glasses and The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper; two best-selling memoirs, And When Did You Last See Your Father? (made into a film starring Jim Broadbent and Colin Firth) and Things My Mother Never Told Me; a children’s book, The Yellow House; several play adaptations and libretti; and three novels, including South of the River (2007) and The Last Weekend (2010).
Blake Morrison will talk about Manet’s
Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe. Find out more about Blake on his
website, read his feature in
The Guardian.