SPRING 2015 Jeanette Winterson in conversation with Patrick Marber Jeanette Winterson

Venue In a special event to mark the launch of the Centre for Writing’s Cornerhouse new MA programme in Screenwriting, Jeanette Winterson will be in conversation with Oscar and BAFTA-nominated screenwriter Time & Date 4pm, Sunday Patrick Marber. The discussion will use clips from Marber’s film 1 March 2015 work to focus on cross-over writing, writing for female characters, differences between stage and screen work, writing short films, the Price commercial demands of the big screen, success and writer’s block, £12 / £10 depression and creativity. (Book via Cornerhouse) The new MA in Screenwriting programme will be designed by Jeanette Winterson and BAFTA award winning film producer Tanya Seghatchian, and will be supported by an advisory board including Russell T Davies, Abi Morgan, Andrew Eaton and Tony Garnett. It is currently accepting applications for September 2015 entry. Jeanette Winterson is an award winning writer whose credits include the Prix d’argent from Cannes for Best TV Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and a BAFTA for Best Drama. She is currently adapting her novella The Daylight Gate for Hammer Horror. Her memoir, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? is an international bestseller. Her work is published around the world in 20 languages. Patrick Marber is one of a cross-over generation of writers such as Lee Hall who move between writing for stage and film. He started out as an actor and Jeanette Winterson stand-up comic working for TV and radio. His first play,Dealer’s Choice, set round a game of poker, won the London Award for Best in conversation with Patrick Marber Comedy in 1995. In 1997 his play Closer became a national and international hit, winning the Lawrence Olivier Award for Best New Play and going on to be 4pm, Sunday 1 March 2015 staged in 30 languages. Centre for New Writing Marber’s big screen transition happened in 2004 when he adapted Closer into School of Arts, Languages and Cultures a film starring Julia Roberts, Natalie Portman, Jude Law and Clive Owen. He The University of was nominated for a BAFTA and a Golden Globe for his screenplay. Closer was also nominated for Best Motion Picture. The movie grossed over $100 million. Oxford Road Centre for New Writing: Events Manchester M13 9PL In 2006 Marber’s adaptation of Zoe Heller’s novel, Notes on a Scandal, was These unique literature events, organised by the University’s Centre nominated for an Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA for Best Adapted Telephone: 0161 275 8951 Screenplay. Email: [email protected] for New Writing, bring the best known contemporary writers to Other screenplays include Asylum – adapted by Marber from his own novel and Online tickets: www.quaytickets.com Manchester to discuss and read from their work. Everyone is welcome, starring Ian McKellen and Natasha Richardson, and the soon to be released Fifty and tickets include discounts at the Blackwell bookstall and a Shades of Grey. centrefornewwriting complimentary drink at our Literature Live wine receptions. Tickets are available from www.cornerhouse.org @newwritingMCR www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/cnw

DW2028.01.15 The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL Royal Charter Number RC000797 www.alc.manchester.ac.uk/cnw LITERATURE LIVE: Venue LITERATURE LIVE: Venue Pavilion Poetry Book Launch Venue John Thaw John Thaw International Denise Riley and Frances Leviston Susan Stewart and Rebecca Perry Liverpool University Press is launching a new series of poetry Studio Theatre Studio Theatre Anthony Burgess books that celebrate risk-taking, called Pavilion Poetry. Pavilion Denise Riley is an acclaimed English poet and philosopher who Susan Stewart is a poet, critic, and translator. A former Chancellor Foundation began to be published in the . Her collections of poetry Time & Date of the Academy of American Poets, she has received a MacArthur Time & Date Poetry, which will be edited by poetry professor Deryn Rees- include Marxism for Infants, Dry Air, Penguin Modern Poets 10, 6.30pm, Monday “Genius” Award for work which makes “strange and disorienting 6.30pm, Monday Jones, aims to seek out and publish all that is daring and Time & Date 16 February 2015 16 March 2015 6.30pm, Monday with Douglas Oliver and Ian Sinclair (1996) and Denise Riley: that which we usually take to be familiar and of common sense.” relevant in contemporary poetry. 20 April 2015 Selected Poems. Her poem ‘A Part Song’ won the 2012 Forward Price Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker and Poetry, and Price Launching in April 2015, the series will debut with three books Prize for Best Individual Poem, a prize for which she was again £6 / £4 her most recent books of poetry are Red Rover (2008) and £6 / £4 from a trio of poets from the UK: Small Hands by Mona Arshi, Price Columbarium, which won the 2003 National Book Critics Circle And She Was by Sarah Corbett and Blood Child by Eleanor Rees. FREE shortlisted in 2014. Denise Riley Susan Stewart Mona Arshi Award. Her translation, Love Lessons: Selected Poems of Alda Her critical work includes War in the Nursery; Theories of the Child Mona Arshi was born to Punjabi Sikh parents in West London Merini, appeared in 2009. and Mother (1983); ‘Am I that Name?’ Feminism and the Category where she still lives. She initially trained as a lawyer and worked of ‘Women’ in History (1988) and Time Lived, Without Its Flow Rebecca Perry is a graduate of the Centre for New Writing. Her for Liberty, the UK human rights organization. Mona was joint (2012). work has appeared, most recently in B O D Y, Poetry Wales and winner of the Manchester Creative Writing Poetry Prize in 2014. Poetry London. Rebecca co-edits the online journal Poems In Frances Leviston grew up in Edinburgh and Sheffield, and read Eleanor Rees is the author of Andraste’s Hair (Salt, 2007) which Which. Her pamphlet, little armoured (Seren), was a Poetry Book English at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. She received an Eric Gregory was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection Society Pamphlet Choice and her first book-length collection, and the Glen Dimplex New Writers Awards, Eliza and the Bear Award from the Society of Authors in 2006. Public Dream, her first Beauty/Beauty (Bloodaxe), launched tonight, is a Poetry Book (Salt, 2009) and Blood Child (Pavilion, 2015). Eleanor has worked collection, was published in 2007 by Picador and shortlisted for the Society Recommendation for spring 2015. extensively as a poet in the community and holds a practice- T S Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the based PhD in the work of the local poet. She often collaborates Jerwood-Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. Frances Leviston Rebecca Perry Eleanor Rees with musicians, artists, performers and works to commission. She Her second collection, Disinformation, is published by Picador in lives in Liverpool. Also of interest: Venue February 2015. Her poems have appeared in Poetry, the London Sarah Corbett’s fourth book of poetry is a verse- novel, And Review of Books, , , the TLS, Edinburgh CIDRAL Roundtable: Susan Stewart (Princeton): Samuel Alexander Lecture Theatre, She Was, which was written as part of a PhD in Creative Writing Review, Granta/British Council New Writing, and various anthologies. Poetry, Thinking, and the Senses Samuel Alexander at The University of Manchester’s Centre for New Writing, under A former writer fellow of the Centre for New Writing, she works as a With John McAuliffe (Centre for New Writing), Anke Bernau (English) Building, the supervision of John McAuliffe. freelance writer and writing tutor and lives in Durham. and Stephen Parker (German Studies). The University of She has published three previous collections with Seren books: Manchester Other Beasts (2008), The Witch Bag (2002) and The Red Also of interest: Venue Time & Date Wardrobe (1998), which won an Eric Gregory Award and was Kanaris Lecture shortlisted for both The Forward First Collection Prize and the CIDRAL Public Lecture: Denise Riley (UEA): 5pm, Tuesday Sarah Corbett Theatre, 17 March 2015 T.S. Eliot Prize. Sarah’s poetry has been widely anthologised On the Lapidary Style Manchester and translated, and she collaborates regularly with other artists, ‘The lapidary style’ suggests a manner of writing which runs close to Museum Price filmmakers and writers. working a material – carving lettering into rock, cutting a gem into fine FREE Time & Date facets. Poised between the properties of the stone and of the jewel, this 5pm, Tuesday term echoes the tensions of the poem itself. This talk will range over the 17 February 2015 curious nature of ‘style’, the virtues of concision and incisiveness, the ‘materiality’ of language, and epigraphy in a digital age. The ‘lapidary’ Price shows us the profound implication of a ‘style’ with semantic meaning. FREE Booking for all Literature events:

Also of interest: Venue Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.quaytickets.com CIDRAL Theory Intensive: University Place or by calling the box office on0161 275 8951 The Manchester Review is the Centre for New Writing’s 2.219 online journal, showcasing new work by both world- On the Affect of Language (with Denise Riley) or e-mailing [email protected] leading and emerging writers and artists. The Review’s Readings: Time & Date Join our mailing list by emailing [email protected] 10am, Wednesday agenda-setting reviews section is regularly updated with Riley, Denise, Impersonal Passion: Language as Affect (Durham, NC: 18 February 2015 Duke University Press, 2005) Chapters: ‘Introduction’, ‘Malediction’ views on the latest books, films, exhibitions, theatre and and ‘The Right to be Lonely’ Price music. www.themanchesterreview.co.uk FREE