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 […]
The Buri-Dale Guitar Duo are excited to present an evening of 20th Century classical guitar repertoire at the Anthony Burgess Foundation. The focus of this recital is on the most iconic figure in classical guitar history, Andres Segovia. Before Segovia, the guitar was far from popular in the classical music canon. However, throughout his lifetime, […]
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, […]
The Apex Singers are excited to be performing their annual Christmas concert at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. The show will feature festive favourites from their Christmas EP Snowed In and their latest release, Stravaig. Established in 2019 by Artistic Director Ollie Lambert, The Apex Singers are an 8-part vocal ensemble creating innovative vocal music […]
Eroteme team up with Chilean archival collective, MUCAM & Mississippi records to present a night of film, music and talks exploring the Chilean folkloric tradition — Canto a lo divino. Canto a lo divino – collective musical memory from Chile Canto a lo divino is a unique musical expression of the Chilean peasant world. It […]
Award-winning folk-fusion collective Kabantu perform their new album freehand live for the first time in their home town of Manchester. Kabantu are an award-winning folk-fusion collective from Manchester. Kabantu means “of the people” — stemming from the South African philosophy of Ubuntu: “I am who I am because of who we all are”. Aiming to […]
Join us for an evening of music and literature as we launch Anthony Burgess’s Mozart and the Wolf Gang, the seventh volume in the ground-breaking Irwell Edition of the Works of Anthony Burgess. Mozart and the Wolf Gang is one of Burgess’s great works, often overlooked due to its experimental form, which nevertheless remains accessible, […]
For the 2022 Anthony Burgess Lecture, and in the centenary year of TS Eliot’s poem ‘The Waste Land’, we are delighted to welcome the acclaimed poet and critic Robert Crawford to deliver a specially commissioned talk on TS Eliot and literary biography. TS Eliot was a formative influence on Anthony Burgess, who returned to Eliot’s […]