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10.2478/peakest-2013-0016 STU DIES Vol . 13, no 2 April 2 013 Unless otherwise indicated, the contents of Peake STUDIES are © G Peter Winnington 2013 . Acknowledgement is made to the Mervyn Peake Estate for permission to reproduce Mervyn Peake’s words and images. Unless otherwise indicated the previously unpublished works by Mervyn Peake in this issue are © the Mervyn Peake Estate " !#. Edited and published by G Peter Winnington, 2 ch du Collège, 1453 M auborget , Switzerland. Tel. +41 24 436 22 32 E-mail [email protected] Home page http://peakestudies.com 10.2478/peakest-2013-0016 News Roundup On 13 March Fabian Peake read some of his father’s poetry at Fusion Arts at the East Oxford Community Centre, Princes Street, Oxford. An exhibition called ‘Ships of Stone: the islands of Mervyn Peake’ opened at the new Gerald Moore Gallery at Eltham College on 16 March (2 to 5 p.m.). It can be viewed every Saturday (12 to 4 p.m.) until 17 May 2013. It will be showing the illustrations for Captain Slaughter - board , Treasure Island, and Mr Pye, and as well as two self-portraits. An exhibition called ‘The Peake Family’ opens on 2 April 2013 at the Westminster Reference Library, London, and runs for a couple of weeks. It will display paintings and drawings by Mervyn Peake, paint - ings by Maeve Gilmore and childhood paintings by Sebastian Peake. During the exhibition one of Fabian’s sons, Lewis, will be running workshops on illustration and computer-generated imagery. There will also be a poetry reading featuring the poems of Mervyn Peake, Fabian Peake and his daughter Clover. This is the 50th issue of Peake STUDIES , completing 25 years of continuous publication. As usual, it was designed and typeset by the Editor. Printed in Switzerland by the Journal de Sainte-Croix..

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