Lecture / Performance:
Graham Fawcett - The Life and Poetry of Pablo Neruda  details

Description

Part of Graham Fawcett's The 'Seven Olympians' series.  A lecture/performance focusing on the life and work of Pablo Neruda.

"Thanks to the 1994 film Il Postino: The Postman, the clearest picture many of us have of Pablo Neruda’s life and work is that he was on Capri in 1952 with Matilde Urrutia, who would share the last 28 years of his life.
 
Whether in enforced exile, as on Capri and visiting many of the world’s capitals, or as a diplomat in Burma, Ceylon, the Dutch East Indies, Spain during the Civil War (his in memoriam poems for Lorca, a friend, stun eye and ear), France and Mexico, Neruda travelled effortlessly; as a result, his poetry carries the authentic charge of his encounter with dramas of land and sea and the parallel unfolding of his and Chile's history most recently rememebered in the 2017 biopic Neruda about the poet's life in that creative, political and personal turning-point year of 1948.
 
The love poetry offers the glorious double intimacy of an open heart to the beloved and a confessional in friendship to the reader, and all the while Neruda’s political nerve, incisive and moderate, abundantly inspires fellow feeling beyond borders."  www.grahamfawcett.co.uk

Booking Call:  T: 01308 459511

Related Links:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/apr/06/neruda-pablo-larrain-biopic