PETROC TRELAWNY
BBC Radio 3 presenter Petroc Trelawny grew up on the Lizard peninsula and attended Helston School in the 1980s.
Looking at Landscape
Focusing on Fay Godwin’s landscape photographs and Charlotte Prodger’s film BRIDGIT
Positionality and Identity in Bridgit
Led by artist Abigail Reynolds, for whom reading and language are key concerns
POETRY AFTERNOON WITH RACHAEL ALLEN
An informal poetry afternoon, with Rachael Allen reading from her debut poetry collection Kingdomland and from new work
Poetry reading group with Rachael Allen and Patrick Langley
Led by visiting authors Rachael Allen and Patrick Langley the group will read and discuss two texts
POETRY AND FICTION | RACHAEL ALLEN AND PATRICK LANGLEY
An evening of live poetry and fiction readings, presented by poet Rachael Allen and novelist Patrick Langley
HOME AND HOMELESSNESS | Catrina Davies and Raynor Winn
Authors Raynor Winn and Catrina Davies will discuss their recent memoirs, each of which recounts a personal experience of homelessness. Grappling with class, economics, mental health and nature, these moving and inspiring stories shine a light on the country-wide housing crisis. In her memoir, Homesick: Why I Live in a Shed, Catrina takes us back…
Philip Marsden in conversation with Hadrian Pigott
Philip Marsden’s new book traces his journey from Cornwall to the small group of Scottish islands in the Inner Hebrides known as the Summer Isles. Marsden sailed single-handed up the west coast of Ireland, in his wooden sloop Tsambika, hopping from island to island and exploring the ruins of villages and religious sites. Along the…
W.S. GRAHAM | READING GROUP
Poets Sam Buchan-Watts and Lavinia Singer will run a relaxed reading group of some key works by the modernist poet W. S. Graham (1918–86), who lived for most of his writing life in Cornwall. Lavinia Singer is a poetry editor at Faber & Faber. Her poetry explores image-making and materiality, and has appeared in various magazines, journals and…
TRY TO BE BETTER I AN EVENING OF POETRY AND DISCUSSION
Poets Lavinia Singer and Sam Buchan-Watts will introduce the idiosyncratic creative practice of the modernist poet W. S. Graham (1918-86) before inviting artists and writers to read from, and reflect on, their contributions to the publication Try To Be Better. The publication is a multi-disciplinary engagement with the life and works of W. S. Graham, who…
WORD NIGHTS | THE SEA AND THE WORD
The presence of the sea can be felt everywhere in Cornwall. And the same is true of its effect on writing
LIZARDS & TYPHOONS | AN EVENING OF POETRY
Prize-winning poets Alyson Hallett, Penelope Shuttle and Katrina Naomi present an evening of poetry relating to place.
WORD NIGHTS | PATRICK GALE
Patrick Gale is a beloved Cornwall-based British novelist and the author of sixteen novels
BRIAN DILLON | ESSAYISM
Imagine a type of writing so hard to define its very name means a trial, effort or attempt.
AN EVENING OF READINGS WITH HEATHER PHILLIPSON
CAST presents an evening of live readings exploring the connections between writing and visual art.
Word Nights | Truth and Lies | Wyl Menmuir and Alex Wade
Novelists trade in deception: they create worlds populated by imaginary characters and often use techniques that confuse and confound.
Word Nights | Women Who Made the Modern Age
Writer Kira Cochrane visits CAST shortly after International Women’s Day to discuss the influential subjects of her latest book Modern Women.
WORD NIGHTS | EXPLORATION AND THE WORD
Historian Huw Lewis-Jones, explorer Kari Herbert and award-winning author Philip Marsden discuss the relationship between exploration and the written word.
THE WHITE REVIEW | AN EVENING OF READINGS
CAST welcomes writers from The White Review to Helston, for a special evening of readings and discussions.
INTERPLAY | AN EVENING OF PRESENTATIONS
Students from the Royal College of Art present an evening of readings and screenings.