Mark Wormald is in Ireland to give three talks to mark the paperback publication of The Catch. Tuesday 2 May – University College Cork Thursday 4 May – Lexicon Dún Laoghaire Thursday 25 May – Seamus Heaney HomePlace at Bellaghy.  Link for further information and tickets: The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes with Mark Wormald […]

Reem Abbas’s MPhil thesis (graduated 2020) has won the Review of English Studies Essay Prize 2022. The print article is called ‘A “Polyphonic Score”: Basil Bunting’s Persian Condensations’ and can be read here. Reem Abbas is a PhD candidate in the Faculty of English and Jesus College.

Bonnie Lander Johnson gives the Ushaw Lecture at Durham University. She spoke about the forgotten women of the Catholic Literary Revival and how their life and work challenge our definition of modernist coterie. Link to further information: Ushaw Lecture May 2023 – Durham University

Poetry and Politics: Samuel Taylor Coleridge at Jesus College Free and open to all; from 11am to 4pm daily. The Marshall Room at Jesus College, Cambridge CB5 8BL Coleridge – poet, philosopher, critic, visionary, and one of Cambridge’s most famous students. He arrived at Jesus College in 1791, and left three years later without receiving […]

Anchorless Bodies: Navigating Arabic in Medieval Manuscripts With Works by Emii Alrai: An Exhibition at the Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, curated by E.K. Myerson, Parker Library ECRF. Alrai uses the phrase ‘Anchorless Bodies’ to describe her artworks, which draw inspiration from the debris of archaeological excavations, and from medieval astronomy.  ‘Anchorless bodies’ are displaced […]

Bonnie Lander Johnson spoke with Christopher Jameson about Easter and the relationship between early modern agricultural practices and the liturgical year, on the Things Unseen podcast. Click here for further information and to listen to the podcast.

Bonnie Lander Johnson chaired the inaugural Room of One’s Own Lecture, a collaboration between Newnham College and the Cambridge Literary Festival. Ali Smith delivered the lecture in Newnham’s Clough Hall where, almost 100 years ago, Woolf spoke on ‘women and fiction’. Woolf was invited to speak by Newnham students and her lecture went on to […]

Nicolette Zeeman is giving the Annual Riddy Lecture at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York on 24th May, entitled ‘The Other Courtly Figure: Medieval Paradiastole‘. Link to further information: https://www.york.ac.uk/medieval-studies/events/archive/2023/riddylecture24may/

Downing College launches the first issue of The Leaves, a magazine of prose, poetry, drama and visual art by Downing students. The magazine is edited by the members of the Downing English Society and Fellow in English, Bonnie Lander Johnson. Link to further information: https://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/news/english-society-launches-new-literary-magazine 

On May 25th, Bhanu Kapil will be the keynote speaker for a one day conference at the University of East Anglia (‘Poetry, Representation and the Archive’). The conference is organised as part of the ‘Towards a Centre for Contemporary Poetry in the Archive’ pilot project, funded by the Mellon Foundation at the British Archive for […]