Weinrebe Lecture 1: Kate Kennedy in conversation with Hermione Lee

Add to Calendar Weinrebe Lecture 1: Kate Kennedy in conversation with Hermione LeeThe Leonard Wolfson Auditorium

Location

The Leonard Wolfson Auditorium

Speakers

Kate Kennedy speaks with Hermione Lee

Event price

Free

Cluster

Oxford Centre for Life-Writing

Event type

Lectures and Seminars

Booking Required

Required

Accessibility

There is provision for wheelchair users.

Further Information

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Contact name

Charles Pidgeon

Contact email

admin.oclw@wolfson.ox.ac.uk

OCLW’s Kate Kennedy speaks with Hermione Lee about writing the life of the poet/composer Ivor Gurney for her new biography, Dweller in Shadows: a life of Ivor Gurney.

This Weinrebe event will follow a free talk and recital presented by the Ivor Gurney Society and OCLW:

3.15 pm - ‘Gurney and the Archive’ lecture with Professor Tim Kendall and Dr Philip Lancaster

3.45 pm - Song Recital with Andrew Randall (baritone) and Eric McElroy (piano). Their programme will include a selection of newly edited songs composed while Gurney was in the Dartford asylum together with some of his most well-known songs.