Events from the 01 October 2021 - 31 October 2021 Reset
Everyone is welcome to our Late Summer Lecture Series 2021, as we roam across The Past, Present, and Future in literature and culture.
06 October 2021
5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Online (Zoom)
Each year Durham Book Festival works in partnership with Durham University’s Centre for Poetry and Poetics to invite an acclaimed poet to become the Festival Laureate. This year we are delighted to welcome Fiona Benson to this prestigious role.
10 October 2021
1:00 PM - 1:45 PM
Online
Fiona Benson, Durham Book Festival Laureate, reads and talks about "The Poems that Made Me"...
14 October 2021
5:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Professor Tom Mole launches the paperback of his book The Secret Life of Books with a talk and signing.
6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
Waterstones Durham University Bookshop
A Durham Book Festival event. Join poet Kayo Chingonyi and philosopher Clare Mac Cumhail for an exploration of Chingonyi’s new highly acclaimed collection A Blood Condition and of the philosophy of the late and brilliant Newcastle philosopher and environmentalist Mary Midgley as part of Notes from a Biscuit Tin.
17 October 2021
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Gala Theatre
To mark the beginning of Inventions of the Text for 2021/22, all are welcome to join us for a poetry reading with Mary Jean Chan.
20 October 2021
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
A medieval research seminar. Email m.j.huxtable@durham.ac.uk for the Zoom logon.
21 October 2021
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
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