Art, History, Liverpool Interest

Who were the ship portraitists and marine artists who worked in Liverpool?

A Dictionary of Liverpool Ship Portraitists and Marine Artists by Anthony Tibbles is an illustrated dictionary providing comprehensive biographical and artistic information about all the ship portraitists and marine artists who worked in and around the port of Liverpool from the late eighteenth century until the present day. To celebrate the publication of this new … Continue reading

Art

Five books that have shaped my thinking: In conversation with author Patricia Smyth

Author of Paul Delaroche: Painting and Popular Spectacle, Patricia Smyth, takes us through the five books that have helped to mould her thinking. Richard Sennett, The Fall of Public Man, London and Boston: Faber and Faber, 1986 What struck me about this book when I first read it in the early 1990s is the way … Continue reading

Poetry

Pavilion Author Q&A: Martha Sprackland

For the latest interview in the series, we chatted to Martha Sprackland, author of Citadel (2020) to discuss her collection, collective anxiety, psychedelic experiences and visual art, examining how these interplay within her recent writing.

Literature, postcolonial studies

Far from Provincial – In a Province: Studies in the Writing of South Africa by Graham Pechey

To mark the publication of the late Graham Pechey’s collected essays on South African culture and writing In a Province: Studies in the Writing of South Africa, his daughter Dr Laura Pechey and Professor Tony Voss share their reflections on this important new collection.