Changing Times II: The Songs of Leonard Cohen

Course Programme

3 September 2017

10:00 Session 1: Introduction; Poet and Singer
11:15 Coffee
11:45 Session 2: Songs of Leonard Cohen
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Session 3: Songs from a Room
15:15 Tea
15:30 Session 4: Songs of Love and Hate
16:45 Day school ends

Additional overnight package on Saturday 2 September 2017

On Saturday night you can choose to stay for a delicious two course meal (£25) at 18:30 followed by an informal musical celebration given by Stephen Ferron and fellow-guitarist Stephen Bennett at 20:00. To register your interest please contact Clare Kerr, Public Programmes Coordinator shortcourses@ice.cam.ac.uk or +44 (0)1223 746232.

Why not complete your visit with an overnight stay as a Bed and Breakfast guest at Madingley Hall? Please contact our reservations team at reservations@ice.cam.ac.uk or +44 (0)1223 746222.

About the tutors

Jem Poster worked as an archaeologist, surveying and excavating a range of sites on behalf of the Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments, before taking up an administrative post with Cambridge University's Institute of Continuing Education in 1987. From 1993 to 2003 he was University Lecturer in Literature with Oxford University's Department for Continuing Education and a fellow of Kellogg College. From 2003 to 2012 he was Professor of Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University, and is now Emeritus Professor. He is the author of two novels, Courting Shadows (2002) and Rifling Paradise (2006), as well as a collection of poetry, Brought to Light (2001), and has recently completed volume 3 of the six-volume Oxford University Press Edward Thomas: Prose Writings. He has won prizes in major poetry competitions including first prize in both the Cardiff International Poetry Competition in 1995 and the Peterloo Poets Open Poetry Competition in 2001.

He has been Chair of the editorial board of Wales’s leading literary journal, New Welsh Review, and is currently Programme Advisor to the Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education’s MSt in Creative Writing and Director of its International Summer Programme in Creative Writing; he is an Affiliated Lecturer of the Institute. He is Director of Academic Programmes for the Financial Times Oxford Literary Festival and in 2014 spent four months as Writer in Residence at Arizona State University.

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This course takes place at Madingley Hall, home to the University of Cambridge Institute of Continuing Education.Day schools run from 10.00am to 4.45pm and include four teaching sessions of 75 minutes each. The course fee includes tea, coffee and a buffet lunch.

About Madingley Hall

Madingley Hall itself is an impressive manor house dating back to the mid-16th century. The decoration of the Saloon and the formal Stair Hall was carried out 200 years later, and the whole fabric was renovated with great care around 1900. About four miles from the centre of Cambridge, the Hall stands in several acres of beautifully-maintained gardens and overlooks a landscape which has changed relatively little since it was laid out by Capability Brown. It is just four miles from the centre of Cambridge, and only 60 minutes from London, with excellent links to London airports.

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