Milton's Creative Lives: A Launch Event for Making Darkness Light.

Milton’s Creative Lives: A Launch Event for Making Darkness Light.
Joe Moshenska and Bart Van Es in Conversation, 
Chaired by Marion Turner

University College

Milton’s Creative Lives: A Launch Event for Making Darkness LightJoe Moshenska and Bart Van Es in ConversationChaired by Marion TurnerUniversity College, OxfordMonday October 18th6-8pmYou are invited to a launch event for Making Darkness Light, Joe Moshenska’s new experimental biography of John Milton, published by Basic Books on September 30th. Joe will read from the book, and will then discuss it with Bart Van Es, author of the Costa Prize-winning book The Cut Out Girl. The conversation will be chaired by Marion Turner, author of the prize-winning Chaucer: A European Life. The event will explore what it means to respond creatively to Milton’s own acts of creation, in relation both to Making Darkness Light and to wider developments in biography, memoir, fiction, and creative non-fiction. The event will take place in the marquees in the Fellows’ Garden of University College, which are covered but well-ventilated, and will be followed by a Q&A and drinks reception. The entrance to the college is on the High Street. There will be a mixture of seating and standing room.Advanced Praise for Making Darkness Light:“Making Darkness Light is elegant, nuanced, and comprehensive. Moshenska gives us a fresh and vivid account of Milton as an individual and a poet while pushing beyond the boundaries of conventional biography. Blending the personal with the historical and the literary, the results are compelling.”—Bart van Es, author of The Cut Out Girl	“Moshenska has written a new kind of literary biography. At once glancingly a memoir, a rivetingly informative biography, and a fascinating reading of Milton as poet, scholar and ordinary man in his everyday life, Making Darkness Light is an illumination. Milton and everything and everybody around him are seen in a quite different, intriguing light.”—Adam Phillips, author of On Kissing, Tickling and Being Bored and Becoming Freud	“Joe Moshenska's superb new biography of Milton is, like the poetry of his subject, a miracle of form, moving from moments of arresting detail to vast contemplations of time, history, and art, all set within an intimate narrative that is at once deeply embedded in its historical moment and aware of how that history connects through other moments to the present. The result is a stirring and compelling account of how great poetry gets written and gets read.”—Edward Wilson-Lee, author of The Catalogue of Shipwrecked Books

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