“Why is it, asks Anna Beer, that male composers have consistently eclipsed their female counterparts? The solution, she admits, is more complicated than simply rewriting music history “on the principle of add women and stir”. In probing deeper, she has given us a compelling account of eight women composers’ lives and the many and various difficulties they encountered.”
Author: MSt Creative Writing
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MSt tutor Anna Beer’s “Sounds and Sweet Airs” a Financial Times “Summer Read”
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MSt tutor Alice Jolly’s “Dead Babies and Seaside Towns” shortlisted for the Pen / Ackerley Prize 2016
MSt tutor Alice Jolly’s Dead Babies and Seaside Towns has been shortlisted for the Pen / Ackerley Prize 2016 -
MSt tutor Roopa Farooki’s podcast for the Royal Literary fund, on life changing literature
MSt tutor Roopa Farooki’s podcast for the Royal Literary Fund Fellowship, “4 minutes on life changing literature”, is now online.
Listen to it here: “When I finally fell asleep it was to the thundering of hooves”.
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MSt alumnus Sam Guglani has new column in “The Lancet”
MSt alumnus Sam Guglani has a column, “The Notes”, in The Lancet (subscription required)“Seamus Heaney distinguishes between craft and technique in poetry, and so speaks to us in medicine. He suggests that craft is just a “skill of making…deployed without reference to the feelings or the self”. But technique is much greater: it is a definition of the poet’s “stance towards life”. In medicine, in the throes of all our encounters, what is our stance towards life, and indeed towards death? In this new Lancet column, The Notes, the hope is to wonder about this, to look obliquely again at events that hold meaning for us and for the persons we meet as patients, who are of course all of us”
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