1) HopeRoad & Leo Zeilig
Invite you to join us for the launch of
An Ounce of Practice
28 February, 6:00pm (Room G22/256 University of London, Senate House Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU)
Tickets: FREE. RSVP essential
(Please RSVP by Friday 24th February 2017)
AN OUNCE OF PRACTICE
Set between London and Harare in the present day, the novel follows a group of quasi-revolutionaries who are fighting against Mugabe’s dictatorship and in favour of Socialist policies. It is a novel about hope, fear, and failure, and how fighting for an all-consuming cause can forge some relationships but ruin others.
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2) HopeRoad & Enitharmon Press
Invite you to join us for an evening of ‘dark’ Love and Resistance with translator Jane Duran and author Leo Zeilig:
Tuesday 28th March, 6:00pm (Enitharmon, 10 Bury Pl, London, WC1A 2JL)
Tickets: FREE. RSVP essential
(Please RSVP by Friday 24th March 2017)
SONNETS OF DARK LOVE
Federico García Lorca (1898-1936), wrote The Tamarit Diván and the Sonnets of Dark Love in the last years of his life. Both books were published posthumously and explore passionate love. The setting for The Divan is the poet’s Granada, while the Sonnets are a solitary, intimate voice speaking to one person.
In translating these powerful poems, Jane Duran and Gloria García Lorca have tried to remain as close as possible to Lorca’s words and to his emotional and sensuous intensity.
Jane Duran won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection for Breathe Now, Breathe (Enitharmon, 1995) and a Cholmondeley Award in 2005. Enitharmon has published five collections of her poetry.
AN OUNCE OF PRACTICE
Set between London and Harare in the present day, the novel follows a group of quasi-revolutionaries who are fighting against Mugabe’s dictatorship and in favour of Socialist policies. It is a novel about hope, fear, and failure, and how fighting for an all-consuming cause can forge some relationships but ruin others.
Leo Zeilig is a writer and researcher. He has written extensively on African politics and history, including books on working-class struggle and the development of revolutionary movements, and biographies on some of Africa’s most important political thinkers and activities. Leo is editor of the Review of African Political Economy and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies at the University of London. His critically acclaimed novel Eddie the Kid won the 2014 Creative Work Prize at the University of the Western Cape.
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