Book at Lunchtime welcomes Professor Patrick McGuinness (Modern Languages) for a discussion of his work, in particular his new work Ghost Stations: Essays and Branchlines.
In wide-ranging prose Patrick McGuinness - poet, novelist, editor, critic, translator - attends generously to the humdrum: shopping centres, ears, varieties of luggage and language, 'minor' writers and artists, hybrid forms ('a genre somewhere between inventory and lyric') without official pedigree. Loss and departures are always part of the weather of stations, but in his alertness to what is simply there, and therefore largely invisible, McGuinness articulates and honours what is most contemporary - 'the bit between the too late and the too early which is also called now'
This is a particular poignant time for TORCH Book at Lunchtime as it will be the last book discussed in the Radcliffe Humanities before our move to the Schwarzman Centre in September. We are privileged to welcome Patrick as he has been a long time supporter, chair, author, poet and panellist on many TORCH discussions.
