Poetry Reading at Churchill College
Sandeep Parmar and Anthony Anaxagorou: 5.15pm on Saturday, January 27th
Lauryn Anderson and Jigisha Bhattacharya will be introducing the poets.
Please arrive at 5.15pm for a 5.30pm start in the Bevin Room. The event will last an hour. Wine/soft drinks/nibbles to follow!
Sandeep Parmar is Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool, where she co-directs Liverpool’s Centre for New and International Writing. Born in Nottingham, she grew up in Southern California. Her books include Reading Mina Loy’s Autobiographies: Myth of the Modern, an edition of the Collected Poems of Hope Mirrlees (Carcanet, 2011), and three books of her own poetry from Shearsman: The Marble Orchard, Eidolon (winner of the Ledbury Forte Prize for Best Second Collection) and Faust. She also edited the Selected Poems of Nancy Cunard (Carcanet, 2016). Her essays and reviews have appeared in the Guardian, The Los Angeles Review of Books, The New Statesman, the Financial Times and the Times Literary Supplement. She is a BBC New Generation Thinker and co-founder of the Ledbury Poetry Critics scheme for reviewers of colour.
Anthony Anaxagorou is a British-born Cypriot poet, fiction writer, essayist, publisher and poetry educator. He has published three full volumes of poetry, and one short story collection, along with a craft book entitled How To Write It. He is the founder and artistic director of Out-Spoken Live, a monthly poetry and music night held at London’s Southbank Centre, and the publisher at Out-Spoken Press. In 2022 he founded Propel Magazine. He was the winner of the 2023 RSL Ondaatje Prize for Heritage Aesthetics.
Directions: Enter through Churchill College Porters’ Lodge on Storey’s Way, go straight through doors to the end of corridor, then go left through double doors, following signs to Wolfson Hall/Bevin Room. Bevin Room is off the foyer for the Wolfson Hall. Look for signs! Fully accessible WC available in the main building, past Porters’ Lodge. All ground floor with ramps. Blue Universal Bus will take you to the Storey’s Way stop on Madingley Road from town and there are bike racks next to Porters’ Lodge too.
Thank you to Churchill College and The Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio Fund for supporting this reading. Please contact Bhanu Kapil (Fellow, Churchill College) at bk426@cam.ac.uk for any questions about the event.
