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Simon Armitage: The Laureate's Library Tour - The British Library

The start of a 10-year adventure.
This is an online event hosted on the British Library platform. Bookers will be sent a link in advance giving access .
“I want to celebrate the physical space of libraries and take my work back into places that have given me so much.”
Each spring for the next decade, Simon Armitage will give readings across the UK, from the flagship libraries of the big cities to smaller libraries serving rural and remote communities. Using the alphabet as a compass, his journey will celebrate the library as one of the great and necessary institutions. Join us online in the first week of his 10-year adventure for this headline event live-streamed from the grand British Library Entrance Hall. ....

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ROUND-UP 2020: Books of the Year with Fiona O'Connor

IN THEORY, 2020’s lockdown should have provided the perfect conditions for major outbreaks of bibliophilia.
But, following an intense publishing year in 2019, when The Washington Post book section declared that “fascism is back in fashion” and classics like Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America and Sinclair Lewis’s It Could Happen Here shot up bestseller lists, 2020 ironically seemed less fevered the rise of Covid-19 and the US presidential election shifted the ground beneath publishing’s feet somewhat.
Faced with a worldwide assault on democracy, with authoritarian populism gaining traction in countries including Hungary, Poland, Turkey, the Philippines, Brazil and, of course, the US and Britain, many writers seemed to have entered the depressive stage of the grief cycle. ....

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