Event overview
A GLITS double session featuring two Creative Writers from Goldsmiths
Susan Watson,'‘Points of stars in the dark’: writing about reading':
All writers are (or should be) readers. Almost all writers are influenced by their reading, yet creative writers do not habitually elaborate on the intense pleasure of reading.
A reader’s response to a literary text may include some elements of academic literary criticism but is often much wider, encompassing memory and place, as well as different readings and re-readings over a period of time. A writer can become more involved with a literary text through adopting someone else’s ideas, images or techniques as a starting point for his or her own work.
In my own poems I attempt to respond to the work of novelists. I decided to begin my project by writing some notes about my own ‘reading history’. Unexpectedly, these notes grew into a reasonably substantial memoir in its own right.
This paper will explain what I learned from the process of writing the ‘reading notes’; how reflecting on my development as a reader encouraged me to ask further questions about the different ways in which I read and responded to various literary texts; and how particular recurring themes and ideas emerged from this analysis.
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Philip Cogger will be reading from his short story 'Someone Loves You', which he describes as an urban fantasy, but also a surreal rumination on striving male failure.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 25 Oct 2012 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
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