Join novelist and lecturer Alicia J Rouverol for a reading of her new novel, Dry River. Sara Greystone’s career as a public defender is spiraling after a disastrous court case: an African American woman has been charged with assault for fighting back against her abuser, a white man, and Sara makes the risky decision to […]
101 years after James Joyce’s novel Ulysses first appeared in print, we are pleased to invite you to celebrate the publication anniversary of Anthony Burgess’s favourite book. Joyce’s epic novel is set in Dublin on a single day: 16 June 1904. This date has come to be known as ‘Bloomsday’ after the hero of the […]
Connor Wilson is an historian of the early and central Middle Ages, with a particular interest in the Crusades, the Crusader States, monasticism and monastic writing. His PhD thesis was completed in 2018 at Royal Holloway, University of London. His book, published by Routledge, examines Latin narratives produced in the aftermath of the First Crusade […]
Please join Poets & Players on Saturday 22 April 2023, 2.30-4.00 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for a wonderful line-up of poets and musicians. The event is free and everyone is welcome. Read all about the poets and musicians below. Katrina Naomi Katrina is an award-winning poet, performer, mentor and judge. Her poetry collections have […]
Author Alex Niven talks about his new book The North Will Rise Again in conversation with Fianna Hornby Newly published by Bloomsbury, Alex Niven’s wide-ranging history/memoir of northern English culture is essential reading for anyone looking to understand the future of the region by examining its recent past. Alex will be in conversation with Fianna […]
Please join Poets & Players on Saturday 25 March 2023, 2.30-4.00 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for a wonderful line-up of poets and musicians. The event is free and everyone is welcome. Read all about the poets and musicians below. Andrew McMillan Andrew McMillan’s three collections of poetry are physical, playtime, and pandemonium; all […]
Please join Poets & Players on Saturday 25 February 2023, 2.30-4.00 at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for a wonderful line-up of poets and musicians. The event is free and everyone is welcome. Read all about the poets and musicians below. Clare Pollard Clare Pollard has published five collections of poetry with Bloodaxe, most recently […]
The Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester welcomes its 2023 Burgess Fellows, Dr Adelle Stripe and Joe Carrick-Varty. They will be reading from their work and in conversation with host Ian McGuire. The Fellowships introduce two new, published writers to each year’s new Creative Writing MA cohort at the Centre, and the […]
Join us for the launch of Anthony Burgess, Stanley Kubrick and A Clockwork Orange, a brand new book that draws on research undertaken at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation archives and the Stanley Kubrick Archive. The book, edited by Matthew Melia and Georgina Orgill, foregrounds the Burgess-Kubrick relationship in the light of the controversial novel-turned-film, […]
For four days, the International Anthony Burgess Foundation will host a special viewing of the exhibition Anthony Burgess’s Typewriters. The Manchester author Anthony Burgess wrote 33 novels and many more non-fiction books throughout his lifetime. He went through many typewriters, a number of which are held in the archive at the Burgess Foundation. Burgess was […]