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Comment by Sarah Caselton on March 16, 2012 at 14:02

Hi Group,

Trying to find a copy of any William Wharton's more famous novels ie Last Lovers, Dad, but in french for a friend. Looked at ebay and amazon but ridiculous prices? Any ideas? Thanks. S

Comment by Glyn Pope on March 5, 2012 at 20:56

English poet Gordon Simms lives in the Deux Devres. His collection, Uphill to the Sea, which won the Biscuit prize, 2011, has just been published. Internationally respected poet. Christopher North writes that the, ‘poems have great sensitivity, physicality and muscle,’ and Katherine Gallagher calls them,’ lyrical, highly visual poems which dance off the page.’

 

The launch of Uphill to the Sea takes place on Thursday the 22^nd March at the Literary & Philosophical Library in Newcastle upon Tyne at 7 pm. If you would like a reading or workshop in your area of the Deux Sevres please email Gordon at gordon.simms@aliceadsl.fr

    

Gordon has been living in France for 10 years. This year he is organising with novelist Glyn Pope, author of The Doctor, The Plutocrat & The Mendacious Minister (http:// cactusrainpublishing.com/the doctor.html) and Jocelyn Simms, creative writing tutor and author of Colour Matters the first ever bilingual LitFest in Saint Clémentin. The  principal guest author is Helen Dunmore who will be joined by an interesting band of authors and workshop presenters. 

 

Many of Gordon’s poems have won prizes and been published in anthologies. He is available for poetry readings and for workshops on poetry or other forms of creative writing in France and in the UK. Details of his online poetry course, Correspondences, fromwww.poetryproseandplays.co.uk

Comment by Glyn Pope on February 12, 2012 at 19:10

see

http://segorastclementincelebratetheword.blogspot.com/2012/02/st-cl...

for up to information about the Literary Festival here in St Clementin Deux Sevres Glyn

Comment by Glyn Pope on February 8, 2012 at 9:31

Update, for the Literary Festival here later this year, Aug/Sept, we have now sold 12 tickets. Which seeing as the event is about 8 months away is pretty good.

PM me for info about The LitFest or Lynn Michell

(By the way I have no financial interest in either of these. I simply love books and want to make friends here aware of oppportunities)

Comment by Wendy Wise on February 7, 2012 at 15:06

@Nick, thanks for the booklists, I agree L Ron Hubbard...I don't think so...when I was a librarian he was one of the authors we never bought, Mickey Spillane was another!

Comment by Wendy Wise on February 7, 2012 at 15:02

@Glyn, thanks so much for all the news and info...keep up the good work!

Comment by Glyn Pope on February 7, 2012 at 14:57

'White Lies' by Lynn Mitchell is a superb book. One of the better books that I've read in a long time. Well written, insightful, thoughtful. It received good reviews from the guardian amongst others. Lynn lives south of Deux Sevres and is available to speak to writers groups and/or book clubs. I believe this to be a real opportunity before Lynn becomes too well known for the likes of us!:) If you are at all interested then in the first instance pm me. No commitment, no time limit. Lynn is looking for bookings over the next year. Glyn

Comment by Glyn Pope on February 3, 2012 at 8:28

The first six tickets have been sold for the Literary Festival here in August/September. Looks like if you plan to come along you'd better book early! Seriously though see blog at http://segorastclementincelebratetheword.blogspot.com/ for details on how to pre-order your tickets.

Comment by Nick Aurelius-Haddock on January 25, 2012 at 11:24

I came across this suggested reading book list, and thought is was interesting. However, the readers selected list at number 3 is rather suspect ;-)

http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/

It may have been posted before, if it has then please ignore.

Comment by Glyn Pope on January 17, 2012 at 20:38

St Clementin Literary Festival update see http://segorastclementincelebratetheword.blogspot.com/2012/01/liter...

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