Speaking: Poetry as male display - Hay Festival, 27 May 2006

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Series[UMA-SRE-20170009] SPEAKINGAccession[2014.0038] GERMAINE GREER ARCHIVEIdentifierUMA-ITE-2017000900595Scope and ContentContains: Invitation, correspondence and schedule on Greer participation in The Guardian Hay Festival, 25/5-4/6/2006. Greer gave illustrated talk titled 'Poetry as Male Display', 27/5/2006, for fee of £1500 plus expenses. Includes laser print of typescript (of lecture), 17 pages, unnumbered, begins: "Why do men write poetry? Love poetry?", overhead of poem, 5 pages photocopied book extract on John Donne interleaved; 2 pages torn from Hay Festival brochure with Greer event listed. Correspondents: Germaine Greer; Carol Horne (for Germaine Greer); Peter Florence, Hay Festival; Clare Purcell, Artist Manager, Hay Festival; Francesca Martin, Arts & Entertainment Editor, Harper's Bazaar; Jesse Ingham, Hay Festival; Ayesha Karim-Khan, Gillon Aitken Associates; Selma Chalabi, BBC Radio Wales. Subjects: Lectures and lecturing; Festivals; Hay-on-Wye Festival; Poetry--History and CriticismAccess StatusAccess restrictions applyRequest TypeRequest unitUnit2017.0009 Unit 0018

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CreatorGreer, GermaineRoleProvenance

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Date21 September 2005-27 May 2006

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Speaking: Poetry as male display - Hay Festival, 27 May 2006