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This is an archive of past events within the Department of English Studies. Please see our current events for forthcoming activities.
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Briggflatts: 50
Celebrate the 50th anniversary year of Basil Bunting's modernist masterpiece, Briggflatts, with a series of events - most of them free - taking place in Newcastle on 24th and 25th June.
Friday 24th June
6-8pm - A reading by young generation poets, in tribute to Bunting's Briggflatts, Culture Lab, King's Rd, Newcastle upon Tyne
Readers: Jo Clement, John Challis, Fruela Fernandez, Ed Luker, Rhys Trimble, Alex Niven, Kris Johnson
Tickets available here: http://webstore.ncl.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=1&deptid=26&catid=266&prodid=2230
Saturday 25th June
10.30am (meet at Central Station)- A walking tour of Bunting's Newcastle led by the Newcastle City Guides
1pm - A collective reading of Briggflatts, Morden Tower, Back Stowell Street, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE1 1SE
2.30pm - Yale University historian Keith Wrightson, on Newcastle during the plague year of 1636, Morden Tower, Back Stowell St.
7.00pm - A tribute concert featuring music and poetry by Tom Pickard, Richard Dawson, Jude Murphy and Banjo Billy Lloyd, Mining Institute, Westgate Rd, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 1SE
£5 Tickets available on the door. To reserve a ticket contact: Alex Niven (alex[dot]niven[at]ncl[dot]ac[dot]uk), or
Bill Lancaster (williamlancaster[at]btinternet[dot]com).
Contact s.r.regan@durham.ac.uk for more information about this event.
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