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February 2026
POETRY
Louis MacNeice’s Snow
Poetry and Painting – The Art of Ekphrasis
Shakespeare’s Sonnets – The Slow Read #9
Rhyme & Reason – A brief introduction (a LitSalon Short)
T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land
LITERATURE
Vladimir Nabokov’s Signs and Symbols (a LitSalon Short)
March 2026
PHILOSOPHY & LITERATURE
Jean Paul Sartre’s The Wall
POETRY
April 2026
TRAVEL
Virginia Woolf in Alfriston: Study 1: Flush & Freshwater, 9-12 April 2026
Virginia Woolf in Alfriston: Study 2: Between the Acts, 16-19 April 2026
Virgil’s Aeneid in Greece
LITERATURE
Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita
Honoré de Balzac’s Lost Illusions
Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled
HISTORY
Machiavelli’s The Prince
CREATIVE WRITING
‘Loosening the ligaments’: a LitSalon Community of Writers – Block 2
POETRY
Shakespeare’s Sonnets – The Slow Read #10
May 2026
CLASSICS
Sophocles: Four Great Tragedies
Homer’s Odyssey in Greece
Homer’s Odyssey live on Zoom
POETRY
T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets
June 2026
TRAVEL
Jane Eyre on the Moors
July 2026
DRAMA
Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
POETRY
“Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n”: Encounter Milton’s Epic Vision in Paradise Lost
August 2026
TRAVEL
Moby Dick afloat (FULLY BOOKED)
September 2026
TRAVEL
Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse in Cornwall
October 2026
TRAVEL
Virginia Woolf’s The Waves in Cornwall
2026 Travel Studies
Travel studies planned for 2026 include our second Moby Dick Afloat voyage, trips to Alfriston to explore the writing of Virginia Woolf, and visits to the Greek island of Agistri to read Virgil’s Aeneid and Homer’s Odyssey. Click on the page links below to read more about these travel studies and arrangements for booking, or to register your interest.
April 2026: Virginia Woolf in Alfriston
April 2026: Virgil’s Aeneid in Greece
May 2026: Homer’s Odyssey in Greece
June 2026: Jane Eyre on the Moors
August 2026: Moby Dick Afloat – WE HAVE NOW CLOSED APPLICATIONS FOR THIS STUDY IN 2026, PLEASE EMAIL US IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE PUT ON A LIST OF READERS INTERESTED IN JOINING OUR VOYAGE IN 2027.
September 2026: Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse in St Ives
October 2026: Virginia Woolf’s The Waves in St Ives
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