Read the Blog and Listen In: http://www.remoteperformances.co.uk/ Twenty artists are working in Glen Nevis in the Scottish Highlands all this week and presenting live radio broadcasts every afternoon. With writers from Lochaber and beyond, I will be presenting a live slot on Thursday 7 August between 1pm and 1.30pm. We are examining the relationship between…
Author: Tracey Warr
Author of historical novels and books on contemporary art.
REMOTE PERFORMANCES
London Fieldworks and Resonance104.4fm present REMOTE PERFORMANCES New artworks made for radio and broadcast live from Outlandia 4- 9August 2014 http://www.remoteperformances.co.uk Remote Performances is a collaboration between artists London Fieldworks and Resonance104.4fm, (the world’s first art radio station). For one week in August 2014, 20 specially commissioned artist performances and programmes created with local residents…
Radio Dreaming
Currently writing an essay about Claire Cote and Anna Keleher’s extraordinary Radio Dreaming project where they travelled around Ireland talking with people about the Marble Arch Caves, off-grid living, local traditions, histories, music, and then created a series of radio programmes that you can listen to online: http://dreamingplaceproject.wordpress.com/radio-dreaming/episodes/
Almodis Reader Comments
Have received some wonderful feedback from readers of Almodis, such as: Dear Tracey Warr, I would like to complain: I started reading your novel in the bath and hours later realised that I’d read a third of the novel, was still in the bath, and I was freezing cold.
Almodis: The Peaceweaver Extract
Prologue Roccamolten Castle, La Marche November 1037 I stand on the precipice wrapped in bulky grey and silver furs. My eyes are trained, like a hawk at hunt, on the steep road snaking up the mountain towards me. I feel the bitter cold of the granite ledge through the thin leather of my shoes, and…
Writing Almodis
Paolo Ucello, The Hunt in the Forest, 1470, Ashmolean Museum, inspired my description of Almodis on a deer hunt. ORIGINS When I enrolled on the MA Creative Writing at Trinity St David, University of Wales three years ago, the last thing I expected to produce was an historical novel. I imagined I would develop the…
Almodis Bibliography
Aurell, Martin, Les Noces du Comte: Mariage et Pouvoir en Catalogne (785-1213) (Paris: Sorbonne, 1995). Bachrach, Bernard S., State-Building in Medieval France: Studies in Early Angevin History (Aldershot: Variorum, 1995). Bloch, Marc, Feudal Society, 2 vols. (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1961). Bogin, Meg, The Women Troubadours (New York: W.W. Norton, 1980). Bonnassie, Pierre, La Catalogne…
Tracey Warr Writing 