Ends and Odds

On Sunday I visited The Perverse Library exhibition at Shandy Hall in Coxwold, North Yorkshire. Unfortunately, this was the final day of the show (sorry!) but it served to draw attention to the array of work taking place around the Information as Material group. They have a fascinating website, here.

Displays included work by Nick Thurston, whose series of posters based on Beckett's Watt combine the striking aesthetic of the now-receding Calder edition with a tightly controlled critical procedure. The results can be seen here.

Starting this blog after several years of the series means there is some catching up to do. Some of the earlier papers given at SBDL fed into Matthew Feldman and Mark Nixon's excellent Beckett's Literary Legacies (CSP, 2007). You can read an excerpt here and buy a copy here.