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"James Harpur wears his erudition lightly and has a highly engaging, compelling style … his lecture on poetry and imagination was both entertaining and profound."
Clarissa Farr, former High Mistress of St Paul’s Girls’ School, London
James regularly gives readings and talks on poetry,
imagination and inspiration in schools. These have included Geelong
Grammar School (Australia), where he was invited to give a sermon; St
Paul’s Girls’ School (UK); Cranleigh School (UK); Radley College (UK);
Kilmeen NS (Ireland); Rugby
School (UK); and the Lycée Albert Premier (Monaco).
His 15-sonnet sequence of poems about the death of his
father from motorneurone disease, ‘The Frame of Furnace Light’, has been
used in A Level English coursework, and his latest award-winning verse
memoir The Examined Life, with a foreword by Stephen Fry, is
due to be used in A Level coursework in 2022.
James himself was educated at Wallop School, Weybridge, then Cranleigh School, which he describes in The Examined Life – a poignant, powerful and humorous account of his five years there in the 1970s.
‘A quite marvellous work…an Odyssey, a Ulysses shaken up in the snow-dome
of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.’ — From the foreword by
Stephen Fry
‘Insanely courageous … a serious success — a subtle account of
adolescence, friendship, confinement, the fashions of the 1970s, a
meditation on the phrase
‘in
loco parentis’,
and a brilliant exercise of memory.’ —
The Spectator
‘Haunted and haunting… a terrific examination of homesickness – the
Odyssey is a vibrant framework for Harpur’s
five years away at school.’
Buy The Examined Life at Two Rivers Press and Amazon
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