From james.d.gifford at gmail.com  Mon Feb 27 10:34:18 2012
From: james.d.gifford at gmail.com (James Gifford)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 10:34:18 -0800
Subject: [ilds] Ignore the critics...
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Hello all,

And there's more for the centenary in the Telegraph today as well:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/guystagg/100060926/ignore-the-critics-who-tell-you-that-simplicity-is-best-and-revel-in-the-purple-prose-of-lawrence-durrell/

Enjoy!

-James

From rpinecorfu at yahoo.com  Mon Feb 27 02:45:22 2012
From: rpinecorfu at yahoo.com (Richard Pine)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 02:45:22 -0800 (PST)
Subject: [ilds] Jan Morris on the Alexandria Quartet (in The Guardian)
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This is not an 'original' article by Jan Morris - it's almost word-for-word the text of her 'New Introduction' to the re-issued Quartet.


From: James Gifford <james.d.gifford at gmail.com>
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Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 10:43 PM
Subject: [ilds] Jan Morris on the Alexandria Quartet (in The Guardian)

Hello all,

Jan Morris has an article in the /The Guardian/ from last Friday that I'm sure will be of interest:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/feb/24/alexandria-quartet-lawrence-durrell-rereading

Some responses and discussion of her suggestions has already begun in the online version.? Did anyone see it in print?

Best,
James
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From donotreply at wordpress.com  Mon Feb 27 11:31:49 2012
From: donotreply at wordpress.com (Durrell 2012: The Lawrence Durrell Centenary.)
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 19:31:49 +0000
Subject: [ilds] =?utf-8?q?=5BNew_post=5D_=E2=80=9CThe_Things_People_Get_Up?=
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Post       : &#8220;The Things People Get Up To On Their Birthdays!&#8221;: Centenary Day.
URL        : http://durrell2012.com/2012/02/27/the-things-people-get-up-to-on-their-birthdays-centenary-day/
Posted     : 27 February 2012 at 19:30
Author     : durrell2012
Tags       : Durrell 2012 Event, Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet
Categories : Biography, Durrell 2012 Event, Durrell in the News, Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet, Uncategorized

Happy Birthday, Lawrence Durrell: ?27 February 1912 ??27 February 2012. Time for celebrations, a good bit of wine, and public waltzing in the square! It was late when we walked back together towards Trafalgar?Square in the falling snow. There were few people about and the?snowflakes deadened our footsteps. In the Square itself your poet?stopped to [...]

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From godshawl at ucmail.uc.edu  Mon Feb 27 13:24:01 2012
From: godshawl at ucmail.uc.edu (Godshalk, William (godshawl))
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:24:01 -0500
Subject: [ilds] The Durrell Centenary
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wonderful -- cook on.


W. L. Godshalk *
Department of English    *           *
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the celebration will hit Australia before UK and USA. I have purchased some
dolmades, tatziki and olives in anticipation of the event and will also get
some retzina and octopus .
 I have also spent today cooking Greek style slow lamb
Lord Larry is moving in the wine currents and speaking through the garlic;
essences of Corfu, Rhodes and Cyprus are rising like the scent of lemons and
the full moon;  dark globes of fruit and wine dark imaginings....the haunted
towers of Avignon and sun dazed groves of Greece, Nilotic silt and a shimmer
of Alexandria below the horizon.

 David
.16 William Street
Marrickville NSW 2204
+61 2 9564 6165
0412 707 625
www.denisetart.com.au

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From: "James Gifford" <james.d.gifford at gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2012 8:14 AM
To: "ILDS Listserv" <ilds at lists.uvic.ca>
Subject: [ilds] The Durrell Centenary

> Dear all,
>
> If I dare write it early, since it's now Monday 27 February in India, I
> hope you're all enjoying a favorite passage, poem, or book on the official
> Durrell Centenary today.  100 years ago today, Lawrence Durrell was born
> in Jalandhar.
>
> The ILDS panel at the Literature and Culture Since 1900 conference in
> Louisville was a grand success and a sample of things to come over the
> rest of the year.
>
> As the current ILDS President, I want to express my thanks to everyone who
> is working so hard to bring breathtakingly diverse projects to completion
> this year.  As my letter to the society membership will recount, there is
> an astonishing amount of work appearing in 2012, including new books, new
> editions, an opera, conferences, and so forth. Those who were in
> Louisville also already know about how much in the pipeline for Durrell
> 2012 (On Miracle Ground 17) in London this June --
> if you've not looked through the continually updated site, please do and
> consider subscribing to the updates (bottom right corner):
>
> http://durrell2012.com
>
> I should also make a point of acknowledging on behalf of the Society the
> enormously productive work done by Charles Sligh, both directly organizing
> the upcoming conference as well as encouraging and nurturing other
> projects that are culminating this year.
>
> Friends and colleagues, my very best to you for the rest of the centenary.
> I'll think of you all while reading through "The Sonnet of Hamlet" today,
> a poem that has muddled my mind over the past year, entirely due to
> Rosemary Thomas...
>
> I look forward to seeing you all in London!
>
> James
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From james.d.gifford at gmail.com  Tue Feb 28 07:52:39 2012
From: james.d.gifford at gmail.com (James Gifford)
Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 07:52:39 -0800
Subject: [ilds] Dictionary of National Biography, etc...
Message-ID: <4F4CF847.6020708@gmail.com>

Hello all,

I managed to trip Durrell into three different lectures yesterday and 
feel rather grand about it.  We raised a toast at home last night to Old 
D, and a second followed to the many good friends brought to us through 
his works.

There have been a number of updates in the Durrell 2012 facebook page 
today as well (follow http://durrell2012.com on facebook if you want!). 
  However, since I know not everyone stoops to the depravities of 
facebookery, I thought I should repost a little of what I've been sent:

Joshua Samuel Scobie reports that "Lawrence Durrell is this week's DNB 
Life"  http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/2.html

El Scob also notes "[Scottish Poetry Library] Director Robyn Marsack 
recalls a youthful first encounter with [Durrell's] poetry. But what 
does his work still have to offer?" 
http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/connect/blog/one-hundred-years-lawrence-durrell

Best,
James
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From donotreply at wordpress.com  Thu Mar  1 06:58:00 2012
From: donotreply at wordpress.com (Durrell 2012: The Lawrence Durrell Centenary.)
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 14:58:00 +0000
Subject: [ilds] =?utf-8?q?=5BNew_post=5D_=E2=80=9CSpread_Out_Slowly_Like_S?=
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Post       : &#8220;Spread Out Slowly Like Spilt Honey&#8221;: Guardian Announces Online Reading Group for The Alexandria Quartet.
URL        : http://durrell2012.com/2012/03/01/spread-out-slowly-like-spilt-honey/
Posted     : 1 March 2012 at 14:57
Author     : durrell2012
Tags       : Durrell 2012 Event, Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet
Categories : Durrell 2012 Event, Durrell in the News, Lawrence Durrell, The Alexandria Quartet, Uncategorized

Guardian Books has just announced that Lawrence Durrell's?The Alexandria Quartet will be the selection for March 2012's online Reading Group. Sam Jordison will host the online discussion. Faber and Faber recognized the online Reading Group by donating 20 gift copies of the 2012?reissue of?The Alexandria Quartet. ? All 20 copies were snapped up immediately after [...]

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From james.d.gifford at gmail.com  Fri Mar  2 11:45:08 2012
From: james.d.gifford at gmail.com (James Gifford)
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2012 11:45:08 -0800
Subject: [ilds] Folio Society
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Hello all,

The Folio Society (just around the corner from the site of the London 
conference this summer) is now celebrating Durrell's centenary:

   http://www.foliosociety.com/news

If you've not seen the Folio editions of the Quartet, they are lovely...

Cheers,
James
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From sunrisedriven at gmail.com  Fri Mar  2 12:06:36 2012
From: sunrisedriven at gmail.com (Lynn-Marie & Brewster)
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 15:06:36 -0500
Subject: [ilds] Folio Society
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The Folio Society news item contains two errors in the first paragraph: LD,
Miller and Nin did not found a publishing house, and LD was not divorced
four times.
            Brewster Chamberlin

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 2:45 PM, James Gifford <james.d.gifford at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> The Folio Society (just around the corner from the site of the London
> conference this summer) is now celebrating Durrell's centenary:
>
>  http://www.foliosociety.com/**news <http://www.foliosociety.com/news>
>
> If you've not seen the Folio editions of the Quartet, they are lovely...
>
> Cheers,
> James
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