{"id":24377,"date":"2011-06-28T14:21:55","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T13:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=24377"},"modified":"2012-04-25T17:18:41","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T16:18:41","slug":"world-within-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=24377","title":{"rendered":"PAST EVENT: 5 July: World Within World &#8211; Stephen Spender"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><strong>Date: <\/strong>Tuesday 5 July<\/div>\n<div><strong>Time: <\/strong>6.30pm<\/div>\n<div><strong>Venue: <\/strong> Free Word Centre, 60 Farringdon Road, London EC1R 3GA<em><\/em><\/div>\n<div><strong>Hosts: <\/strong>English PEN In association with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.englishpen.org\/events\/penevents\/worldwithinworldstephenspender\/www.indexoncensorship.org\">Index on Censorship<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Acclaimed  poet Stephen Spender was politically active throughout his life.  Fiercely committed to artistic freedom, in 1972 he founded Index on  Censorship. In the late 1970s he served as President of English PEN,  campaigning for the right to freedom of expression for writers in the  Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact countries. Spender&#8217;s biographer <strong>Professor John Sutherland<\/strong>, academic <strong>Dr Lara Feigel<\/strong> (currently editing a volume of Spender&#8217;s letters), poet <strong>Alan Jenkins<\/strong> and <strong>Lord Grey Gowrie<\/strong>, editor of <em>Stephen Spender: Selected Poems<\/em>, debate Spender&#8217;s complex legacy.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for this event cost \u00a35 for English PEN members and \u00a38 for  non-members, including a glass of wine.<\/p>\n<p>To book, please call the Free Word Centre on 020 7324 2570 or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/event\/395715596?utm_source=eb_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=new_eventv2&amp;utm_term=eventurl_text\">book online<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>5 July<\/strong>: World Within World &#8211; Stephen Spender<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24377"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24377"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35650,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24377\/revisions\/35650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}