Blackwell’s bookshop is delighted to be hosting a special event with Will Sergeant, guitarist and founding member of Echo and the Bunnymen, at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation for the launch of his long-awaited memoir BUNNYMAN. He’ll be chatting to Dave Haslam about his career in one of the most influential and important British bands […]
The Burgess Foundation has a rolling programme of public exhibitions highlighting the life and work of Anthony Burgess. Because visiting exhibitions has been a little difficult of late, we have expanded our exhibition programme to become fully browsable online. Delve into a world of Anthony Burgess below. Please note: this event page has a date […]
We are delighted to present a special concert by Richard Casey of Anthony Burgess’s music for solo piano, played on Burgess’s own Bosendorfer, recorded at the International Anthony Burgess Foundation in Manchester. Richard Casey has recorded the collected solo piano works of Camden Reeves, Anthony Gilbert (with piano duo partner Ian Buckle) and Peter Maxwell […]
Please join us to celebrate the launch of Anthony Burgess’s Collected Poems (Carcanet), a brand new volume edited by Jonathan Mann that redraws the map of Burgess’s poetry. The book’s sheer breadth is a real treat for fans of Burgess’s writing. From lyric poems to love poems, from political works to limericks, this 500-page collection […]
#EarthlyPowers40 is a 40th anniversary celebration of one of Anthony Burgess’s most acclaimed novels, Earthly Powers. The book won the Best Foreign Novel of the Year award in France, and was shortlisted for the 1980 Booker Prize for Fiction, alongside Alice Munro, Anita Desai and William Golding. In our special celebration of Earthly Powers, we […]
Throughout his career, Anthony Burgess was fascinated by the writing and life of William Shakespeare. Explore these pages to find out about the influence of Shakespeare on Anthony Burgess, and the insights Burgess brings to our reading of his work. Explore our exhibition Burgess and Shakespeare to find out about the influence of Shakespeare on […]
An exclusive concert and spoken word performance by the No Dice Collective highlighting six unusual objects from the Anthony Burgess archive, commissioned by the International Anthony Burgess Foundation. Manchester native Anthony Burgess led a fascinating life, and No Dice Collective has been rifling through the objects he left behind for the past four months. There will […]
We are delighted to welcome the award-winning pianist Stéphane Ginsburgh to the Burgess Foundation for a special concert performance. Anthony Burgess composed his 24 Preludes and Fugues (subtitled ‘The Bad-Tempered Electronic Keyboard’) in 1985, to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the birth of Johann Sebastian Bach. This ingenious and inventive piece, with its brief romantic […]
Electronic musician Scanner heads up an evening of special musical performances inspired by the rarely-heard cassette archive of the author Anthony Burgess. This event previews a forthcoming double-LP of rare archival material and exclusive remixes, curated by artist Alan Dunn in collaboration with Guy-Marc Hinant. The event features The Reverend Max Ripple, Foreign Investment, David […]
For the 2019 Anthony Burgess Lecture, the novelist and biographer Dame Margaret Drabble will present a specially commissioned talk on literary reputations. Taking Anthony Burgess’s grand, late bid for immortality, Earthly Powers, as a starting point, the lecture will explore how we remember writers and the power of posterity. Margaret Drabble was born in Sheffield […]