Literature and Writing
Discover beauty in poetry, passion in drama and thought-provoking ideas in novels. Be stirred by the poets Milton, Whitman and Wright; be moved by the dramatists Shakespeare, Miller and Hugo and be inspired by authors Kafka, Dostoyevsky and Marques. Read and imagine, then imagine and write. Let your inner voice speak out guided in one of our exceptional writing classes. Immerse yourself in the glory of literature.
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JRR Tolkien - The Two Towers and The Return of the King
<p>Follow Frodo and his companions, as the hobbits become involved in events bigger than they ever imagined; Frodo and Sam struggle towards Mordor, and Pippin and Merry are caught up in great perils
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Lunchtime Poetry: English Beauties
<p>Explore some of the best poetry from England – classics that are beautiful and memorable including poems from: Donne, Shakespeare, Shelley, Wordsworth, Blake and Coleridge. We’ll cross centuries
...Lunchtime Poetry: English Beauties
<p>Explore some of the best poetry from England – classics that are beautiful and memorable including poems from: Donne, Shakespeare, Shelley, Wordsworth, Blake and Coleridge. We’ll cross centuries
...Available Classes
Unusual Library Collections
<p>Libraries have existed for thousands of years, with their primary role being the preservation of knowledge for future generations. However, they also serve as custodians of unique cultural, social
...Unusual Library Collections
<p>Libraries have existed for thousands of years, with their primary role being the preservation of knowledge for future generations. However, they also serve as custodians of unique cultural, social
...Available Classes
The Longest Journey: Les Miserables
<p>Hugo's <em>Les Miserables</em> is a powerful, incisive and unforgettable study of class and inequality, justice, the struggle for freedom and dignity, suffering, love, friendship and the power of
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Why Fairy Tales Matter
<p>Once upon a time is not only the beginning of many fairy tales, but also the beginning of questions to ask about them – when did they begin, and why? And why do they continue, across cultures, eras
...Why Fairy Tales Matter
<p>Once upon a time is not only the beginning of many fairy tales, but also the beginning of questions to ask about them – when did they begin, and why? And why do they continue, across cultures, eras
...Available Classes
Heaven and Hell and the Whole Damn Thing - An Introduction to Dante
<p>What Shakespeare did for English, Dante Alighieri did for Italian literature and language. Meshing his own life and exile with the universal human journey through life and the afterlife, using
...Heaven and Hell and the Whole Damn Thing - An Introduction to Dante
<p>What Shakespeare did for English, Dante Alighieri did for Italian literature and language. Meshing his own life and exile with the universal human journey through life and the afterlife, using
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ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence
<p>What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT is like having a conversation with a computer, but instead of talking to a human, you're talking to a special program that's really good at understanding and generating
...ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence
<p>What is ChatGPT? ChatGPT is like having a conversation with a computer, but instead of talking to a human, you're talking to a special program that's really good at understanding and generating
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Simone de Beauvoir - An Eclectic 'Big-picture' Writer and Thinker
<p>De Beauvoir is a world-famous author – one of the Big eclectic thinker-writers of the mid-late 20th century – with an enormous output. Slowly her novels are being recognised as philosophical works
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Winter Haiku at Barangaroo
<p>The haiku form was developed by Basho in seventeenth-century Japan and has spread round the world. Haiku writing is a way to deepen perception of the nature around us. It is meditative and
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Family, Friends, and Frankenstein
<p>On 11 March 1818, “Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus” was published. The book itself is the mother of science fiction, but the mother of the book was Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, wife of
...Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley - Family, Friends, and Frankenstein
<p>On 11 March 1818, “Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus” was published. The book itself is the mother of science fiction, but the mother of the book was Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, wife of
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