Loss, Grief and Anger

Arts & Ideas

BBC

Society & Culture

4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Lisa Appignanesi, prize-winning writer and Freudian scholar, with a personal memoir that explores public and private loss and anger. Presenter Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough also looks at a Festival of Canadian and North American writing meeting authors Heather O'Neill and Cherie Dimaline whose novels explore the meaning of family in dystopian visions of Canada, urban and rural. And, as the Oceania exhibition opens at the Royal Academy in London and a new Pacific Gallery opens at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich, Jo Walsh, artist and art producer, and cultural adviser, discusses the cultural protocols and disciplines which should be taken into account when mounting exhibitions of art from the Pacific nations and we look at the idea of cultural loss.

Lisa Appignanesi : Everyday madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love

Heather O'Neill is one of Canada's best known fiction writers. Also a poet and journalist, her latest novel is The Lonely Hearts Hotel. Cherie Dimaline is a writer and editor from the Georgian Bay Metis Community in Ontario. Dimaline's latest book is The Marrow Thieves. They are taking part in the inaugural Festival America in London this September.

Jo Walsh, (Māori / Pākehā) is a London-based artist and founding member of In*ter*is*land Collective and works with major institutions, including the British Library and National Maritime Museum.

Oceania at The Royal Academy, London, 29 September — 10 December 2018. Sackler Gallery: Pacific Encounters, one of four new galleries at National Maritime Museum, now open.

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1:29.6	four people who've explored bereavement, personal and cultural, in their creative lives.
1:35.6	At the table, the writer and Freudian scholar Lisa Apennon and Nyezi, two novelists,
1:41.2	Heather O'Neill and Sherry Dimeline in town to celebrate Canadian writing at Festival America
1:46.6	and completing the circle New Zealander Joe Walsh
1:50.9	and I believe you're going to start us off Joe with a greeting
1:54.1	Co Moana noa kiwa to mywana
1:57.5	co putahy to myonga
1:59.8	go Wairauau to my awawana, Poutas, my monga, Quayrower, my Wairodo, my Waka, Kornatawa Oroa, my Waka, Korn, my iwi, myiwi, my Hapu, The Kottahitanga, my marai. Kow, Rauk, for Tani, more Mokaraka, more Thompson, to my teupuna.
2:21.6	My name is Joe Walsh to my angua.
2:23.9	My name is Joe Walsh, and I'm a Pacific Arts producer and founding member of the Inter-Iland Collective based on London.
2:31.3	Just to help explain my introduction, I started with my pepihar. In Māori, we use
2:36.9	a pepihar to identify ourselves to establish our heritage and connection to each other and to our
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