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University Collections invite you to a Cultural Conversation
Wearing Armani and Eating from the BinPoet and memoirist Kate Llewellyn talks about her book A Fig at the Gate
4.30 – 6.00 pm Thursday 29 October 2015 Urrbrae House University of Adelaide, Waite Campus Enter via Walter Young Drive off Fullarton Road
Free — all welcome
Join us at Urrbrae House, nestled within its verdant gardens and the Waite Arboretum, to hear Kate Llewellyn, now in her seventies, talk about her book A Fig at the Gate where she embraces a new phase in her life, addressing the question ‘How does one live well?’
Kate Llewellyn’s fondness for gardens is well known through her previous accounts of crafting gardens in the Blue Mountains (The Waterlily) and north of Wollongong (Playing with Water). In Adelaide, Kate creates a new garden near the sea, planting olives, plums, limes and blood oranges, learning how to keep poultry, setting a duck on eggs. Delight and enrichment come with the learning of new skills, being close to family and old friends, long companionable beach walks, and rediscovering old recipes.
Her recent book of letters edited by Ruth Bacchus and Barbara Hill forms a foundation to understanding where her philosophy of life emanates from and informs daily meanderings. Wise and joyful, accepting what she cannot change while relishing what she has, Kate shares the beauties and frailties of the human condition and shows us what gifts ageing can bring.
It promises to be a deeply satisfying Conversation about gardening, family, friends, ageing and renewal.
Light refreshments will be served prior to the Conversation.
For more information and to reserve your seat please email [email protected] or call 8313 3086
Text for the Conversation flyer is adapted from Allen & Unwin and Wakefield Press promotional material.
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Kate Llewellyn has published memoirs, essays, journalism and poetry since 1987. Much loved and much read, she has created an Australian nature writing genre that is all her own. A Fig at the Gate follows this tradition. Kate is a graduate of the University of Adelaide.
Fig at the Gate Kate Llewellyn Allen & Unwin, 2014
First Things First: Selected letters of Kate Llewellyn 1977 – 2004 Ed Ruth Bacchus and Barbara Hill Foreword by Marion Halligan Wakefield Press, 2015
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With thanks to our colleagues at Urrbrae House and continued support of the Waite Campus and Division of the Vice-Chancellor and President of the University of Adelaide, and UniBooks.
image detail from Kate Llewellyn Fig at the Gate cover: Hand-coloured lithograph of Ficus carica from Darstellung und Beschreibung sämtlicher in der Pharmacopoea Borusica aufgeführten offizinellen Gewächse by Otto Carl Berg & Carl Friedrich Schmidt offered by antiquarian book and print dealer Jan Meemelink.
photograph Catherine Buddle