In February this year, Jon Silkin’s Complete Poems was published by Carcanet, following several years’ work by co-editors Jon Glover and Kathryn Jenner. Despite being well known during his lifetime as a poet, editor...
This month, Chris Nickson delves into the mystery of the disappearance of former Leeds resident, Louis Le Prince and what that could have meant for Leeds had he not vanished without trace. It is a truth universally acknowledged that the first...
In advance of the Oluwale Partnership Symposium on 17 April, we publish Ian Duhig’s Via Negativa, remembering David Oluwale. Not circumcellion, beggar, gyrovague but Lagos Christian college boy. Not abbey-lubber but job-seeker. Not City of God but...
In advance of the Oluwale Partnership Symposium being held at Leeds Beckett University on Friday 17th April, Ian Duhig remembers how he first came to hear about David Oluwale’s story and the mark it left...
This week we talk to London-raised author, Ricky Baxter, let loose in Leeds and discuss how moving up North has influenced his literary career, and his novel Gideon and the Crimson Samurai. What initially inspired you...
In 2013, the world met Don Tillman, Professor of Genetics. Don can remember every single cocktail recipe he has ever read, organises his meals according to a carefully worked out and optimised schedule, and...
Meet the Authors- Jonathan Geldert, The Thoughts of Chairmen Now Event date: Apr 21 2015 18:00 to 19:30 The Business Confucius Institute, Leeds University Business School, Maurice Keyworth Building, Room G.02 Jonathan Geldart has interviewed some...
Event date: Apr 18 2015 10:00 to 13:00 The Business Confucius Institute, Business School, Maurice Keyworth Building, 1.03, Leeds University This is a unique opportunity to get inspired by ancient objects from Leeds City Museum, using...
You may remember an article Chris Nickson wrote for us awhile ago, Leeds, Motorway City of the Seventies. The poet, Ian Duhig, wrote Róisín Bán about the Irish workers that the M1 brought up and the...
Halima Mayat interviews Wakefield-based poet, writer and playwright, Michael Yates, for this week’s Big Bookend blog. Why did you decide to write a play about Branwell Bronte? I have a friend Colin Lewisohn who directed...
