tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-43219173777945599742024-03-08T03:38:25.929-08:00Jay Griffiths Talks, Events, CoursesJay Griffithshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763794689478116477noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321917377794559974.post-13411699628061159202014-03-18T07:10:00.002-07:002014-04-30T07:20:18.359-07:00...........<br />
Jay will be speaking about home and homelessness as
part of the Stay Where You Are project for Gareth Evans and the Film
and Video Umbrella, at the Hackney Picturehouse on May 7th<br />
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"A Love Letter from a Stray Moon", Jay's short novel partly about Frida Kahlo, is published by Little Toller. She will be talking about it at the following events:<br />
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May 8, 'News from Nowhere' bookshop in Liverpool<br />
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May 22, Aberystwyth Arts Centre bookshop<br />
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May 28, 4pm, Hay Festival, hosted by Peter Florence<br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Love Letter from a
Stray Moon </i>is a fictionalised portrait of the intense and prolific life of
Frida Kahlo. It explores the artist’s childhood polio, her devastating accident
and her turbulent relationship with Diego Rivera, a story of passion, grief and
transcendence. Partly a poetic depiction of a woman in flight from the
hollowness of childlessness, the burning of betrayal and the constraints of
physical pain, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Love Letter from a Stray
Moon</i> is also a love letter to the earth and a celebration of the rebellion
which protects it – from<span style="color: #333333;">
Frida’s own politics to the present-day Zapatistas. It is a hymn to </span>the revolutionary fire at the heart of
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‘A rich and extraordinary vision. Jay Griffiths is a
fearless adventurer with words and images. I salute her courage and the
splendour of this vision’ <b>Philip
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‘Frida Kahlo’s life and work were indivisible, and with a
power worthy of her subject Jay Griffiths has found a way of writing Kahlo’s
broken, prolific life. Through Griffiths we hear the voice of Frida Kahlo
herself, as if she were speaking directly to us. I devoured this wonderfully
perceptive and sensitive book’ <b>Marie
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‘<span class="eudoraheader">Rich, honed and intense, a</span>
fierce, compelling homage’ <i>The</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Age</i>,
Australia</div>
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‘An extraordinarily beautiful and sustained prose poem, a
call for engagement with the world, and a powerful and astonishing feat of
literary and retroactive telepathy. It is a book about possession, in many
forms, each of which is sparked by a <br />
particular urgency; to comprehend, to celebrate, and to endure’ <b>Niall Griffiths</b></div>
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‘A stunning allegory about love, art, and revolution. She
makes every word, every scene, in this passionate narrative count. It’s
brilliant work’ <b>Barry Lopez</b></div>
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‘The raw and erotic power of Kahlo’s voice takes centre
stage. Jay Griffiths has created an extraordinary feat of imagination’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Weekend Press</i>, New Zealand</div>
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‘A wonderful book.
It’s like a dress that Kahlo invented for herself and wore’ <br />
<b>John Berger</b></div>
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‘Kahlo’s inner voice soars on Griffiths’s metaphorical
flourishes, applied carefully like the brushstrokes of Kahlo’s brightly
pigmented self-portraits . . . a
multilayered work which creates a vivid sense of Kahlo’s elliptical life’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sun-Herald</i>, Australia</div>
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‘A rapturous, crazy and gorgeous poem to art and to the
human spirit. Griffiths’s novel reminds us what it is to be a human
being, born native to the earth, on fire with the joy of the universe and full
of grief for our broken world. It is a love song to life, to art and to
the human spirit’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">West Australian</i>,
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‘Vivid as a bloom in the jungle, visionary as a flight over
a desert, a love song to life on earth’
<b>Joan London</b></div>
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‘A raw and confronting piece of poetic prose . . . a
fearless adventurer of words, Griffiths is in great form’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sunday Herald Sun</i>, Australia</div>
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‘A love letter to human originality’ <b>Melanie Challenger</b></div>
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<span lang="EN-US">‘A musical reverie, a tapestry of lyrical
metaphor, a prose poem driven by heat and fury.’<b> </b> <i>Sunday Star Times</i> </span></div>
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‘The book is both narrative and prose poem to revolution,
uncensored minds and life lived as art.
Griffiths’s fearless, untamed writing style is equal in measure to
Kahlo’s brushstrokes. Griffiths’s
writing is utterly original.’ <b> </b><i>Northern
Rivers Echo</i></div>
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‘An act of poetic ventriloquy… Griffiths’s language is
flowing, hyper-poetic’ <i>The Sydney Morning
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‘I found in Griffiths’s writing
a crafted freedom that feels made from the mist of dreams and a very real
emerging dawn. Imagine being held in the open hand of moonlight and carried
through a dream into day. This is what it is like to read <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Love Letter from a Stray Moon</i>. It is a
book for men to read on women and for women to read on men. I am
transported and transformed; I feel lucky to have read it and it leaves me in
awe’ <b>Lemn Sissay</b></div>
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You can read her column for the Guardian, on technology and education here <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/10/michael-gove-coding-education">http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/10/michael-gove-coding-education</a><br />
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Jay Griffithshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763794689478116477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321917377794559974.post-74058884747907422012014-01-08T08:54:00.002-08:002014-01-08T08:55:50.658-08:00<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Jay will be part of a
year-long event themed on 'Stay Where You Are - the Meanings of
Occupation. She will be reading her work entitled 'A Thesaurus of
Home' part of the 'Place' event at Aldeburgh, on Saturday February
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In connection with
Gareth Evans, and Steven Bode from the Film and Video Umbrella</div>
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http://www.aldeburgh.co.uk/events</div>
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Her work on the dirty,
earthy medieval Welsh poet (and spending a night sleeping on his
grave) can be read in “Towards Re-Enchantment” published by
Artevents.</div>
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A short column by Jay,
on depression and nature, is published in the Guardian:</div>
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Jay's novel, A Love
Letter from a Stray Moon, partly about Frida Kahlo, is published by
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She will be speaking
about it on Thursday 13<sup>th</sup> February at the Festival of
Imagination in Birmingham</div>
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On March 8<sup>th</sup>
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Jay Griffithshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763794689478116477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321917377794559974.post-87690501951750886922013-04-18T10:11:00.000-07:002013-04-19T09:57:12.016-07:00Kith publication and talks upcoming<div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;">
Jay Griffiths's
forthcoming book 'Kith: The Riddle of the Childscape' will be
published by Hamish Hamilton (Penguin) on May 2<sup>nd</sup>, 2013.
For full details please see <a href="http://www.jaygriffiths.com/">www.jaygriffiths.com</a></div>
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May 4th, 2013<sup> </sup>
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An extract from 'Kith'
will be published in the Guardian Weekend magazine </div>
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She will be a guest on
Radio 4's Start the Week on Monday May 6<sup>th</sup> talking about
'Kith'.</div>
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May 11, 2013</div>
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She will be speaking
about 'Kith' at the Bristol Festival of Ideas on Saturday May 11<sup>th</sup>
at 4.30.</div>
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www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/4140/jay-griffiths-kith-the-riddle-of-the-childscape</div>
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May 16, 2013</div>
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She will be speaking
about 'Kith' at the Royal Society of Arts on Thursday May 16<sup>th</sup>
at 1pm.</div>
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<a href="http://www.thersa.org/events/our-events">http://www.thersa.org/events/our-events</a></div>
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May 27, 2013</div>
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She will be speaking
about 'Kith' at the Hay Literary Festival on Monday 27<sup>th</sup>
May at 11.30 at the Sky Arts Studio.
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<a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/programme-quick-view.aspx?SectionFilterID=308&pview=1">https://www.hayfestival.com/programme-quick-view.aspx?SectionFilterID=308&pview=1</a></div>
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May 29, 2013</div>
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She will be reading
from her short story, part of the collection 'Beacons: Stories For
Our Not So Distant Future' at the Hay Literary Festival on Wednesday
29<sup>th</sup> May at 7pm at the Landmarc 100 Stage.</div>
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<a href="http://www.oneworld-publications.com/beacons">http://www.oneworld-publications.com/beacons</a></div>
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<a href="https://www.hayfestival.com/programme-quick-view.aspx?SectionFilterID=305&pview=1">https://www.hayfestival.com/programme-quick-view.aspx?SectionFilterID=305&pview=1</a></div>
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June 7-9, 2013</div>
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She will be speaking
about 'Kith' at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival (June 7-9).</div>
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June 11, 2013</div>
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She will be speaking
about 'Kith' at Topping and Company Booksellers in Bath on Tuesday
June 11<sup>th</sup> at 8pm</div>
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<a href="http://www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/bath/jay-griffiths/">http://www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/bath/jay-griffiths/</a></div>
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June 14, 2013</div>
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She will be speaking
about 'Kith' at the Centre for Human Ecology in Govan, Glasgow on
Friday June 14<sup>th</sup>.</div>
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<a href="http://www.che.ac.uk/">http://www.che.ac.uk/</a></div>
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June 15, 2013</div>
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She will be speaking
about 'Kith' at the Dark Mountain event, 'Carrying the Fire' at
Wiston Lodge near Biggar on Saturday June 15<sup>th</sup>.</div>
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<a href="http://dark-mountain.net/ai1ec_event/carrying-the-fire/?instance_id=">http://dark-mountain.net/ai1ec_event/carrying-the-fire/?instance_id=</a></div>
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June 16, 2013</div>
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She will be reading
from her short story, part of the collection 'Beacons: Stories For
Our Not So Distant Future' at the Dark Mountain event, 'Carrying the
Fire' at Wiston Lodge near Biggar on Sunday June 16<sup>th</sup>.</div>
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<a href="http://www.oneworld-publications.com/beacons">http://www.oneworld-publications.com/beacons</a></div>
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June 23, 2013</div>
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She will be speaking
about 'Kith' at the Kings Place Travel Festival in London at 5pm on
Sunday June 23<sup>rd</sup>.</div>
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<a href="http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on-book-tickets/curated-weeks/kings-place-travel-festival?page=1#.UXAfisodW2A">http://www.kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on-book-tickets/curated-weeks/kings-place-travel-festival?page=1#.UXAfisodW2A</a></div>
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August, 2013</div>
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She will be speaking
about 'Kith' at the Edinburgh Book Festival in August.</div>
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<a href="https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/">https://www.edbookfest.co.uk/</a></div>
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August, 2013</div>
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She will be speaking
about 'Kith' at the Melbourne Writers' Festival in August.</div>
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<a href="http://www.mwf.com.au/2013/?name=Program-sub">http://www.mwf.com.au/2013/?name=Program-sub</a></div>
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September 16-21, 2013</div>
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She will be tutoring a
writing course ('Life Writing, Travel Writing') with Rory MacLean at
Ty Newydd in Wales from 16<sup>th</sup> to 21<sup>st</sup> September.</div>
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<a href="http://www.literaturewales.org/courses/">http://www.literaturewales.org/courses/</a></div>
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Jay Griffithshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763794689478116477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321917377794559974.post-7473516278438340772012-09-25T03:50:00.001-07:002012-09-25T03:50:26.413-07:00Jay will be doing a talk at the Purcell Room on Monday 5th November 2012, at the event entitled 'Season's Mist: The Arts of Autumn'<a href="http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/literature-spoken-word/tickets/seasons-mist-the-arts-of-autumn-69095"> http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/find/literature-spoken-word/tickets/seasons-mist-the-arts-of-autumn-69095 </a><br />
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Following the just-completed course at the Aigas Field Centre in Beauly, near Inverness, she will be teaching a writing course again at Aigas in 2014. Apart from the course, co-tutored with John Lister-Kaye, participants have the opportunity to look for otters, badgers, pine martens, golden eagles, dolphins and red squirrels.Jay Griffithshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763794689478116477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321917377794559974.post-65758333567924068592012-05-11T02:55:00.001-07:002012-05-11T02:55:15.296-07:00TalksJay Griffiths will be speaking at the British Library on June 1st 2012 as part of a discussion to accompany their exhibition 'Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands'<br />
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She will be talking about her short novel A Love Letter from a Stray Moon, at the Port Eliot festival, July 18-22 2012. This was published in Australia by Text publishing and is now being published by Penguin as an e-book.<br />
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She will be speaking at the Wilderness Festival on August 11th 2012<br />
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August 17-19 she will be speaking at the Dark Mountain festival, reading from Anarchipelago, her short novel about the road protests. 2012Jay Griffithshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763794689478116477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321917377794559974.post-13109989437464047962012-05-11T02:47:00.003-07:002012-05-11T02:57:16.840-07:00A Love Letter from a Stray Moon<br />
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Stray Moon </i>is a fictionalised portrait of the intense and prolific life of
Frida Kahlo. It explores the artist’s childhood polio, her devastating accident
and her turbulent relationship with Diego Rivera, a story of passion, grief and
transcendence. Partly a poetic depiction of a woman in flight from the
hollowness of childlessness, the burning of betrayal and the constraints of
physical pain, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Love Letter from a Stray
Moon</i> is also a love letter to the earth and a celebration of the rebellion
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fearless adventurer with words and images. I salute her courage and the
splendour of this vision’ <b>Philip
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‘Frida Kahlo’s life and work were indivisible, and with a
power worthy of her subject Jay Griffiths has found a way of writing Kahlo’s
broken, prolific life. Through Griffiths we hear the voice of Frida Kahlo
herself, as if she were speaking directly to us. I devoured this wonderfully
perceptive and sensitive book’ <b>Marie
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‘<span class="eudoraheader">Rich, honed and intense, a</span>
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‘An extraordinarily beautiful and sustained prose poem, a
call for engagement with the world, and a powerful and astonishing feat of
literary and retroactive telepathy. It is a book about possession, in many
forms, each of which is sparked by a <br />
particular urgency; to comprehend, to celebrate, and to endure’ <b>Niall Griffiths</b></div>
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‘A stunning allegory about love, art, and revolution. She
makes every word, every scene, in this passionate narrative count. It’s
brilliant work’ <b>Barry Lopez</b></div>
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‘The raw and erotic power of Kahlo’s voice takes centre
stage. Jay Griffiths has created an extraordinary feat of imagination’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Weekend Press</i>, New Zealand</div>
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‘A wonderful book.
It’s like a dress that Kahlo invented for herself and wore’ <br />
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‘Kahlo’s inner voice soars on Griffiths’s metaphorical
flourishes, applied carefully like the brushstrokes of Kahlo’s brightly
pigmented self-portraits . . . a
multilayered work which creates a vivid sense of Kahlo’s elliptical life’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sun-Herald</i>, Australia</div>
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‘A rapturous, crazy and gorgeous poem to art and to the
human spirit. Griffiths’s novel reminds us what it is to be a human
being, born native to the earth, on fire with the joy of the universe and full
of grief for our broken world. It is a love song to life, to art and to
the human spirit’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">West Australian</i>,
Australia</div>
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‘Vivid as a bloom in the jungle, visionary as a flight over
a desert, a love song to life on earth’
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‘A raw and confronting piece of poetic prose . . . a
fearless adventurer of words, Griffiths is in great form’ <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sunday Herald Sun</i>, Australia</div>
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‘A love letter to human originality’ <b>Melanie Challenger</b></div>
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‘The book is both narrative and prose poem to revolution,
uncensored minds and life lived as art.
Griffiths’s fearless, untamed writing style is equal in measure to
Kahlo’s brushstrokes. Griffiths’s
writing is utterly original.’ <b> </b><i>Northern
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‘An act of poetic ventriloquy… Griffiths’s language is
flowing, hyper-poetic’ <i>The Sydney Morning
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‘I found in Griffiths’s writing
a crafted freedom that feels made from the mist of dreams and a very real
emerging dawn. Imagine being held in the open hand of moonlight and carried
through a dream into day. This is what it is like to read <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">A Love Letter from a Stray Moon</i>. It is a
book for men to read on women and for women to read on men. I am
transported and transformed; I feel lucky to have read it and it leaves me in
awe’ <b>Lemn Sissay</b></div>
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*****</span>Jay Griffithshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763794689478116477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321917377794559974.post-1461684067874769652012-02-01T10:56:00.000-08:002012-02-01T10:56:52.791-08:00talks coming up<a href="http://www.isbourne.org/index.php?option=com_jcalpro&Itemid=60&extmode=view&extid=3515">http://www.isbourne.org/index.php?option=com_jcalpro&Itemid=60&extmode=view&extid=3515</a><br />
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Friday 10th February at the Isbourne Centre in Cheltenham, Jay Griffiths will be giving a talk on West Papua<br />
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February 16th, at the Watershed Media Centre, Jay Griffiths will be hosting an evening In Conversation with David Rothenberg, American philosopher and musician<br />
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Saturday February 18th, Jay Griffiths will be giving a talk at the Aldeburgh Festival on The Sea<br />
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Wednesday February 22nd, JG will be giving a talk at Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts, in a conference on literature and the environment<br />
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Wednesday February 29th, JG will be giving a talk on Time in Shoreditch, based on Pip Pip: A Sideways Look at Time<br />
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Sunday March 25th, JG will be talking at the Oxford Literary Festival, about her novel A Love Letter From A Stray MoonJay Griffithshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763794689478116477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321917377794559974.post-25101808181141956712011-12-02T10:30:00.000-08:002011-12-02T10:30:14.348-08:00Writing courseJay Griffiths will be tutoring a week-long writing course with John Lister-Kaye at Aigas, Inverness, in September 2012. Please see<a href="http://www.aigas.co.uk/programmes_by_theme.asp?intent=details&id=36">http://www.aigas.co.uk/programmes_by_theme.asp?intent=details&id=36</a>Jay Griffithshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763794689478116477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321917377794559974.post-49437171692786134992011-12-01T05:34:00.001-08:002011-12-01T05:34:51.640-08:00Interview with Jay Griffiths for Scientific American<a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20%20%20http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/creatology/2011/11/23/audio-interview-with-wild-author-jay-griffiths/"> http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/creatology/2011/11/23/audio-interview-with-wild-author-jay-griffiths/</a>Jay Griffithshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763794689478116477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321917377794559974.post-88877868183684348202011-10-26T08:58:00.000-07:002011-10-26T08:58:51.796-07:00Nikolai Fraiture/The StrokesNikolai Fraiture, from The Strokes, interviewed me about my work recently. The interview is posted at The Rumpus, see below, with link from The Strokes.<br />
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<a href="http://therumpus.net/2011/10/five-questions/">http://therumpus.net/2011/10/five-questions/</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.blogger.com/%20http://www.thestrokes.com/us/news"> http://www.thestrokes.com/us/news</a>Jay Griffithshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763794689478116477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321917377794559974.post-52748313227101036632011-10-12T08:57:00.000-07:002011-10-12T08:57:58.473-07:00dates coming up<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:DoNotOptimizeForBrowser/> </w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--> <br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal">On November 22<sup>nd</sup>, I’ll be doing an eco-evening with KT Tunstall at The Tabernacle in Notting Hill for the Botanical Sanctuary in Kerala</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">On January 28<sup>th</sup> 2012 “in conversation” with Gideon Koppel at the Oriel Davies Gallery, after a screening of ‘Sleep Furiously’</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal">On February 10<sup>th</sup> 2012, a talk on West Papua at the Isbourne Holistic Centre in Cheltenham</div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12pt;">February 18/19 2012, a talk on Sea for Aldeburgh Music, annual weekend series devoted to the idea of Place.</span>Jay Griffithshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763794689478116477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321917377794559974.post-55138239269962930492011-10-12T08:55:00.000-07:002011-10-12T08:55:31.310-07:00Article here on arts funding <a href="http://www.orionmagazine-digital.com/orionmagazine/20110910?sub_id=wryc6QZN81ee#pg12">http://www.orionmagazine-digital.com/orionmagazine/20110910?sub_id=wryc6QZN81ee#pg12</a>Jay Griffithshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12763794689478116477noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4321917377794559974.post-46341831369632704672011-06-23T04:10:00.000-07:002011-06-23T04:10:44.794-07:00Jay Griffiths Writing Courses and TalksDetails of talks by Jay Griffiths and writing courses tutored by her<br />
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For full details of work by Jay Griffiths, please see <a href="http://www.jaygriffiths.com/">www.jaygriffiths.com</a><br />
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May 23 2011 <b>Jay Griffiths</b> <b>In conversation with John Berger</b>, British Library<br />
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June 13-18 2011 <b>Arvon Writing Course with Jay Griffiths and Rory MacLean</b>, Shropshire<br />
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<a href="http://www.arvonfoundation.org/pc594.html">http://www.arvonfoundation.org/pc594.html</a><br />
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July 9, 2011 <b>Transition Conference</b>, Liverpool<br />
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<a href="http://www.transitionnetwork.org/conference-2011-uk-sessions-and-schedule">http://www.transitionnetwork.org/conference-2011-uk-sessions-and-schedule</a><br />
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July 17, 2011 <b>Festival of the Sea</b>, Southend<br />
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<a href="http://www.metalculture.com/southend-on-sea/shorelines.html">http://www.metalculture.com/southend-on-sea/shorelines.html</a><br />
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July 22, 2011 <b>Port Eliot Festival</b> (Five Dials), S.E. Cornwall<br />
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July 23, 2011 <b>Port Eliot Festival</b> (Idler tent), S.E. Cornwall<br />
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July 30, 2011 <b>Resurgence Camp</b>, Worcester<br />
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July 31, 2011 <b>Big Green Gathering</b>, Chepstow<br />
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August 21, 2011 <b>Dark Mountain Festival</b>, Hampshire<br />
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<a href="http://www.uncivilisation.co.uk/">http://www.uncivilisation.co.uk/</a><br />
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August 26-28, 2011 <b>West Dean Festival</b>, Chichester<br />
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September 4 2011 <b>Urban Green Fair</b>, London<br />
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September 10-17 <b>Nature Writing Course tutored by Jay Griffiths</b>, Aigas, Scotland<br />
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September 29-30 <b>Neroche Landscape Project</b>, Somerset<br />
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<a href="http://www.nerochescheme.org/">http://www.nerochescheme.org/</a><br />
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