Date: 30TH APRIL
Time: 6:30-8:00
Location: Art Workers’ Guild, London
Enquiries: contact@thebyronsociety.com
During this event, Geoffrey Bond will talk about his latest book – Byron’s Manor: Birthplace of his poetry – which reveals that Burgage Manor (where Byron lived as a teenager and where Geoffrey has lived for over 30 years) is the genesis of Byron’s published poetry. Inspired by his friend and neighbour, Elizabeth Pigot, Byron was encouraged to write his first four collections of poems whilst living at Burgage Manor and to have them published in nearby Newark-on-Trent. The talk will touch on what it is like to live in a Byron house – Geoffrey has written this book in the very room where Byron wrote his early poems – and the importance of Southwell and Newark in the Byron story.