Hear from Newcastle-born Boy Parts author Eliza Clarke, Glasgow-based David Keenan (This is Memorial Device and For the Good Times) and Lucian Freud’s daughter Rose Boyt, author of Naked Portrait.
Enjoy some exceptional craft beers from three of the leading UK breweries - Track (Manchester), Beak (Lewes, East Sussex) and Verdant (Cornwall)
The Back Story
Verdant Brewery based in Penryn Cornwall have built a relationship with White Rabbit publishing over the past 12 months after a chance meeting with editor Lee Brackstone at Seachange Festival in Totnes.
Over the past 12 months Verdant has been publishing a monthly column titled ‘My Life in Beer’ as wella s hosting events at their taproom that have included Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi, Jennifer Lucy Allan, Richard Milward and David Keenan. Much of that can be found at the Brewing Folk blog
Schedule
18.00–19.15 Rose Boyt
19.30–20.15 Eliza Clark
20.30–21.15 David Keenan
DJ until late
Track Brewing will be celebrating Rose Boyt (Picador). Rose is the author of Naked Portrait, a searing new memoir covering her relationship with her father, the renowned artist Lucian Freud. The book explores her experience of modelling for him from childhood until after her marriage, the power imbalance in their relationship, her adulation of him and how - years later - she worked it all out. It is a viscerally honest account of a very complicated father-daughter relationship.
Beak will be joined by Eliza Clark (Faber & Faber). Born in 1994 in Newcastle Upon Tyne, Eliza Clark is the author of Boy Parts (2020) and Penance (2023). In 2020, Boy Parts was Blackwell’s Fiction book of the year, and in 2022 Eliza was chosen as a finalist for the Women’s Prize Futures Award for writers under thirty-five. In 2023, she was named one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists. She also writes for film and television.
Joining Verdant on the night will be David Keenan. David Keenan is the author of five critically-acclaimed novels; the cult classic This is Memorial Device, which won the London Magazine Prize; For the Good Times, which won the Gordon Burn Prize; The Towers The Fields The Transmitters, Xstabeth and Monument Maker, which was a Rough Trade Book of the Year. He lives in Glasgow and has recently completed a new work called Magic Is Real: Magic, Creativity, Love and Resurrection in Literature.
The talks will begin at 18.00 and continue until 21.15. All hosted by Stone Club’s Matthew Shaw. Matthew Shaw is an artist based in Cornwall working predominantly with photography, sound and film. Matthew has worked on performances and installations for a variety of places including Barbican, Charleston House, Barclodiad y Gawres, Glastonbury Festival, Sea Change Festival & The Social. Collaborators include Brian Catling, Shirley Collins, Jimmy Cauty & Jem Finer, The Pop Group, Jamie Reid, Richard Norris & Justin Robertson.
Beer and Music
The evening and into the night will be coupled with a Tap Takeover of the Corner Bar with all three breweries beers.
DJ, Record Producer, Author, Artist and Music consultant Justin Robertson will be providing the music until late. Showbiz is a fickle game. Fashions change and genres evolve at a dizzying velocity. To stay at the cutting edge as a DJ, music producer, broadcaster, visual artist, & author requires an unshakeable passion and a restless urge to keep evolving. Justin Robertson has occupied that edge in one form or another for 35 years, remaining rapier sharp across all these diverse fields.
The bar will be open to the public until 23.00 and everyone is welcome to attend, the talks will be ticketed and attendees will receive a flight of beers to enjoy with the ticket price. Alongside a can of Beak’s new IPA Biblio to celebrate the very first Pages event at Tate Modern.
Expect an evening full of magic, emotion alongside dancing and merriment. The team from each brewery will be in attendance on the night alongside the authors and publishers.