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Pen Press Sponsors Jeanette Winterson at the Brighton
Fesitval
May 2005
Jeanette
Winterson, Whitbread-winner and author
of Oranges are Not the Only Fruit, launched the Brighton's
Festivals anthology of new writing, The Brighton Book.
In an entertaining performance, the highly acclaimed author read her specially
commissioned short story, The Night Sea Voyage, from the suitably aquatic
setting of the 19th-century aquarium, the Sealife Centre. The gentle splashing
of a giant sea turtle and the occasional glimpse of a black-tipped reef
shark made this recital an experience to remember!
A
self-confessed evangelist for the arts, Winterson spoke passionately about
the importance of creativity and its appreciation. For her, art is a way
of making sense out of the life we are all living. That art is eternal.
And while science needs to update itself constantly, a painting by any
of the great masters will remain significant forever.
She rightly pointed out that we would go to see Shakespeare not because
we want to find out about Elizabethan England but because we want to find
out something about ourselves, here and now.
Winterson's advice to anyone who wants to lead the strange life of a writer,
is to read the words out loud. 'Listen to the rhythm and you will
hear if it is wrong.'
All in all this was an enlightening evening, and one which Pen
Press is enormously proud to have sponsored.
LighthousekeepingJeanette Winterson
UK £6.39
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The
Brighton Book
Jeanette Winterson, Nigella Lawson, Ali Smith, et al
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