‘Religion is the oppressor. True, it has given us art, music, architecture of unsurpassable beauty, but that does not prevent it from being a roof over the heads of shivering people scared of engaging the huge windy blackness without. Man invented God because he knew no better – the great unpredictable father, indulgent or angry, […]
I remember both Anthony and Liana Burgess well and with affection. The first time I met Anthony Burgess was after the publication of his book A Shorter Finnegans Wake. I was then an undergraduate in Trinity College Dublin and presented a paper to the Philosophical Society about James Joyce circa 1964. Anthony Burgess was the […]
I first met Anthony in 1969 in Vancouver, British Columbia. He had been invited to lecture at Simon Fraser University. I was then on the faculty of Royal Roads in Victoria, a branch of the Royal Military College. His lecture was well attended, and he delighted the audience with accounts of his travels that had […]
The International Anthony Burgess Foundation invites papers to be presented at the centenary conference, ANTHONY BURGESS: LIFE, WORK, REPUTATION.
Carly Rowley reports on her recent PhD success.
Anthony Burgess’s view of Europe, by Will Carr
The various agents of Anthony Burgess, by Graham Foster.
Unexpected connections in the Burgess archives. By Martin Kratz.
Christine Lee Gengaro, author of ‘Listening to Stanley Kubrick: the music in his films’ reviews the newly released album of Anthony Burgess’s orchestral work, ‘Mr. W.S.’
In May 2016 the first recording of Anthony Burgess’s orchestral music will be released on the Naxos label. Here Paul Phillips, Music Advisor to the Burgess Foundation, writes about each of the pieces on the forthcoming CD.