The study and appreciation of the life, works and times of Arnold Bennett
Entries are now open for the Arnold Bennett Literary Award 2020 It is the fourth year the international book prize has been organised by the Arnold Bennett Society in partnership with The Sentinel. Entry is also open to writers living anywhere in the world if their work deals with life in North Staffordshire. Past winners include Guardian […]
Read Article >>The Gourmet Coffee Bar has reopened at Stoke Railway Station, Station Road, with access from road and platform one at the station. Worth going in just to see the Philip Hardaker mosaic featuring famous Stokies. FIND ARNOLD
Read Article >>Many congratulations to Hannah Scragg on her successful PhD viva exam at Keele University. Hannah’s thesis is entitled ‘Beyond the Five Towns: a re-evaluation of Arnold Bennett’ – a boost for Bennett scholarship! Keele University Humanities & Social Sciences http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Hannah_Scragg
Read Article >>19 October: Annual General Meeting, Swan Bank, Methodist Rooms, Burslem, 2:00pm 1 November: Submission deadline for articles for the Winter 2020 Newsletter 4 December: Literary Lunch, Speaker Lisa Blower, Potbank Hotel, Elenora Street, Stoke. 12:00 – application form in August Newsletter. 29 February 2020: Annual talk at Friends’ Meeting House – details in the January 2020 Newsletter. […]
Read Article >>Poet John Lancaster won the inaugural Arnold Bennett Prize with his fifth volume, Potters: A Division of Labour. Potters is a humorous and poignant tribute to the workers of Alfred Meakin Pottery, where John had a job between school and university. John now lives in Totnes, but has not forgotten his North Staffordshire roots. He […]
Read Article >>FROM THE BIG ISSUE TO CHAPTER CATCHER On a recent visit to Hay-on-Wye (24 May) Marie-Claude and I were suddenly confronted by the impressive presence of a familiar figure. ‘I know you! But I’ve forgotten your names’. The friendly greeting came from John (Lord) Bird, with whom we had had the privilege of dining at […]
Read Article >>Colin Fisher’s Blog April 16, 2019 Enthralling – not interminable For over two years I used Arnold Bennett’s self-help book Literary Taste to find out if, a century after the book’s publication, it was possible to create my own literary taste. To carry on the experiment, I will now read the books reviewed by Arnold […]
Read Article >>Digital Addiction Getting You Down? Try an Analog Cure By Cal Newport. New York Times April 8, 2019 Arnold Bennett was an early-20th-century British novelist, playwright and critic. He’s perhaps best known for his detail-oriented novels set around the Staffordshire Potteries. In 1931, during a trip to Paris, he ignored a waiter’s advice to avoid the […]
Read Article >>Ambition’s the key to reviving derelict sites The following article first appeared in the Sentinel (Stoke on Trent) Monday March 4, 2019 BBC Radio 4’s adaptation over five weekends of Arnold Bennet’s novels, ‘China Towns ‘ is still further evidence of the rich seam of Burlsem’s cultural heritage being in the national spotlight. Again!! Its […]
Read Article >>The annual AB Society conference 13 June, 2020 (provisional) ‘Arnold Bennett’s Social Conscience’ North Staffs Conference Centre, Hartshill
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