The Art of Reading

You love literature, but can you articulate why? What is it about the craft of a particular passage that struck you as beautiful; made you uncomfortable; left its invisible, indelible mark?

'How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read?' Virginia Woolf

'How are we to bring order into this multitudinous chaos and so get the deepest and widest pleasure from what we read?' Virginia Woolf

 

To truly unlock the art of an author’s writing, there is an art to reading

I run independent five-week courses designed to equip you with the critical skills that will lead to a deeper engagement with and understanding of the written word, and the cultural political scape.

www.theartofreading.co.uk

The yurt, on the glorious Spitalfields City Farm. Here, we congregate around a log burning stove and chat about literature.

The yurt, on the glorious Spitalfields City Farm. Here, we congregate around a log burning stove and chat about literature.

 

There are no desks. No strip lighting. No white or black boards. 

There are like-minded folk. A yurt. A circle of higgledy-piggledy chairs. Wood burning fire.

And, occasionally, a cat called Domino.