"10 Lovers, 50 Poems" by Giles Keating - Book Launch at Waterstones

Please join us to celebrate a Book Launch with an aperitif, at 6-8pm on Thursday November 6th  at Waterstones, South St, Dorchester, Dorset:

"Thomas Hardy: 10 Lovers, 50 Poems", by Giles Keating of Athelhampton. Mark Chutter, Chair of the Society, has written the Foreward and will introduce the book, and there will be comments by the author. Both the speakers will also read a short poem and there will be a Q and A.

This is an unusual book: partly an anthology of Hardy's love poems, arranged in chapters each relating to one of his romantic partners; partly a set of extended notes on the poems, both on his poetical methods (in non-technical language) and setting the biographical context of both Hardy and his partners for the verses, including some new research notably on the fate of Eliza Nicholls; and partly a picture-book, with wonderful illustrations by local artist Noah Warnes and still shots from the short films of each poem. These are available online and feature dramatised readings by  Dorset actors as well as interviews with Hardy scholars such as author Paula Byrne and Mark himself. They were shot at Athelhampton House by a team led by Howard Payton (who will be present on the 6th).