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Browse all our events here for the 2013 Independent Bath Literature Festival. With over 100 events from 1 to 10 March, you can book online, visit the Box Office in person or call 01225 463362.
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Friday 01 March
Soldiers and Sailors
Bath Poetry Café
Poems In Pubs
Saturday 02 March
Kids Big Bath Read
How We Have Transformed The Land With Francis Pryor
Art Detectives
An Allan Little lecture read by Sheena McDonald
Sports Writing
Heat on the Street
Short Story with Tessa Hadley and Sarah Hall
Miriam Darlington: Otter Country
Robert Fisk
Translation Duel: French
Kate Mosse
Adam Fergusson: When Money Dies
Elen Caldecott
Our Brain: Memory and Optimism
Fiction: Dag Solstad
P.D. James with John Mullan
The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Long-List Announcement
Will Gompertz: What Are You Looking At?
English Folk Songs with Steve Roud
Pitch Perfect
Elif Shafak
The Wisdom of Psychopaths
Sunday 03 March
Sarah Simblet
Words Alive
The Pornography Debate
Gossip from the Forest
John Mullan: What Matters in Jane Austen?
Unhappy Love
Wish You Were Here…
Jerry Brotton: 12 Maps
Iceland and Antarctica
Nine Decades of Radio
Book Chat
Darcey Bussell
Risk Intelligence with Dylan Evans
Patrick Hennessey: Kandak
Sarah Simblet on Trees
China: Paul Mason
Melanie King: Can Onions Cure Ear-ache?
Keynsham Voices
Harry Mount: How England Made the English
Won’t Get Fooled Again
The Last Supper
Mark Grist
Monday 04 March
Tiny Monuments Collective – ‘My Voice in the City’
Bath in 1713
Nature Writing with Jean Sprackland
A.N. Wilson on Wedgwood
Bee Wilson: Consider the Fork
Environment, Resources and Economy
Book Illustration Masterclass
Lust, Infidelity and Bad Living
Jason Drew: The Story Of The Fly
Paul Ormerod: Positive Linking
Sandi Toksvig
James Runcie on Keats
Poetry and a Pint
Anatomies with Hugh Aldersey-Williams
Tuesday 05 March
Writing in the Social Media Age
Book Chat
Meet The Artists: Tiny Monuments Collective
John Batchelor on Tennyson
Memoir
Sarah LeFanu: S is for Samora
The Drugs Trade
Traditional Religious Songs
Anthologise
Freedom from Torture: Write to Life
The Oldie Event
Writing Online
Devoted to Rhyme
Tracey Thorn
China’s Growth with Linda Yueh
Meet the Author: Susan Swingler
After Hours: Poetry Liaison
Noise: A Human History of Sound and Listening
Clive Stafford Smith: Injustice
Ocean of Life
Wednesday 06 March
Tiny Monuments Collective – ‘My Voice in the City’
Writers Surgery
Biography
1922: Constellation of Genius
Running with the Pack
Violent Conflict
Meet the Author: Jane Ridley
Literary Walks Around Bath
Rural Life and Occupations
Ben Goldacre: Bad Pharma
Aminatta Forna
Helen Dunmore and James Long
Thursday 07 March
Pat Barker
PR for Writers
Ninja
We Make Books
Helen Cross: Creating Expressive Characters
Bath in 1813
Meet The Artists: Tiny Monuments Collective
Social History
Jonathan Bate on First World War Literature
Cecil Beaton’s Theatre of War
What happens when good religion goes bad?
The Hidden Lives of Daphne du Maurier and her Sisters
Folk Tales
To Kill A Mockingbird
Lindsey Davis
Extraordinary Writing
Alex Danchev on Cézanne
The Bookshop Band
Writers Surgery: Speculative Fiction
Gavin Esler: Lessons from the Top
Songs of Death and Destruction
The Undiscovered Country: Journeys Among the Dead
Pitch Perfect
BBC Stories
The State of the World Atlas
Friday 08 March
How to get published
Tiny Monuments Collective – ‘My Voice in the City’
Bath in 1913
Poetry Prescription
Jennifer Scott
The Real Jane Austen with Paula Byrne
Michael Jacobs: A River Journey Through Colombia
Extremes with Kevin Fong
Writers Surgery
How does publishing work
The Mystery of writing a Mystery
Lovers’ Tricks, Disguises and Obstacles Overcome
Polly Toynbee and David Walker: Dogma and Disarray
The Secret Anarchy of Science
Poetry Prescription with William Sieghart
Tour de France 100
J.K. Rowling
What A Performance!
Saturday 09 March
Tiny Monuments Collective – ‘My Voice in the City’
Happy Relationships
The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters
Make an App!
Crime: How to Plot
Hayek, Friedman, and the Birth of Neoliberal Politics
The Suffragette and The Jockey
The Wind in the Willows goes Digital
On The Map
New Voices: Anthea Nicolson, Beatrice Hitchman and Katie Ward
The World before the Great War
Poachers, Highwaymen and Other Criminals
Jim Crace: Harvest
To Kill A Mockingbird
Hello World
Jennie Rooney and Amity Gaige
Karl Polanyi and The Great Transformation
Hilary Mantel
QL (Quite Literate)
Sunday 10 March
The Novel
The Silence of Animals
Di Atkinson on Mrs Norton
Ban This Filth!
From the Ruins of Empire
An Optimist’s Tour of the Future
Nadeem Aslam with Kamila Shamsie
Christopher Clark: The Sleepwalkers
To Kill A Mockingbird
Book Chat
Uncomfortable Truths
Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling
Tracy Chevalier and Rupert Thomson
Jon Ronson: Lost at Sea
The Phantom Army of Alamein
Georgina Harding and Michèle Roberts
Poetry and Fascism with Lucy Hughes-Hallett
News
Announcement of new Artistic Director for Literature Festival
April 9, 2013Bath Festivals is delighted to announce the appointment of critic, columnist and broadcaster Viv Groskop to the role of Artistic Director ...…
Daily Poems: Sunday 10 March
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Daily Poems: Saturday 9 March
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Today’s Daily Poem: Friday 8 March
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Daily Poems: Thursday 7 March
March 7, 2013Cappuccino Sometimes I’m consumed with living, dead but never more alive. Like spooning the froth in the chocolate head of a second cappuccino. The air is thin, an ...…