‘How to Wash a Heart’ is published by Pavilion Poetry. Link to further information: https://tseliot.com/prize/the-t-s-eliot-prize-2020/winner/
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Dr Lisa Mullen speaks at the online launch event for the new ‘Oxford World’s Classics’ editions of George Orwell on Thursday 28 January at 6pm
To celebrate George Orwell joining the Oxford World’s Classics series, join the editor of Animal Farm, David Dwan as he chairs a conversation about one of the world’s most influential writers. CrowdCast link to join the event: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/orwell_oxford_worlds_clas/register
Continue ReadingAnnouncing an Experimental Criticism Symposium and the Launch of Manifold Journal’s Inaugural Issue
Manifold is celebrating the launch of their inaugural issue by hosting a symposium on Experimental Criticism that will run for seven weeks, starting Jan 21st. The panels will take place every Thursday from 1-2pm EST/6-7pm BST. To register for the events and for more information: https://www.manifoldcriticism.com/events Contributors of the first issue of Manifold will be […]
Continue ReadingLaunch of the Cambridge Foundation Year in the Arts and Humanities
The Cambridge Foundation Year is a free and fully-funded one-year residential course designed to offer a stepping stone to Cambridge for those who have experienced educational disadvantage. If you want to pursue further study in the Arts, Humanities or Social Sciences, are ordinarily resident in the UK, and circumstances have prevented you from realising your […]
Continue ReadingAngela Leighton’s new volume of poems, ‘One, Two’, published by Carcanet, January 2021
Link for further information: https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781800170162
Continue ReadingAlexander Freer’s book ‘Wordsworth’s Unremembered Pleasure’ is published by Oxford University Press, October 2020
Wordsworth’s Unremembered Pleasure (Oxford UP, 2020) investigates Wordsworth’s sustained interest in unnoticed, retrospective and “unremembered” pleasure. Reading Wordsworth with and against the psychoanalytic tradition of reading for unconscious trauma, it recovers Wordsworth’s distinct interest in forgotten and unremembered things, and uses romanticism’s anti-traumatic forms as a resource for rethinking wider questions of aesthetic pleasure and compositional […]
Continue Reading‘Voicing the Devil’: an online study evening for Years 11 and 12, hosted by the Faculty of English and the Faculty of Divinity, Thursday 28 January, 6pm-7pm
The Faculty of English and the Faculty of Divinity are holding a joint online study evening on Thursday 28th January 2021, 6pm-7pm. The event is aimed at students in Years 11 and 12 with an interest in literature, performance, theology, religion, and philosophy of religion – especially those who may be considering studying these subjects […]
Continue ReadingDr Helen Thaventhiran and Professor Stefan Collini have published the first scholarly edition of William Empson’s ‘The Structure of Complex Words and Related Writings’
This edition reprints Empson’s classic work of literary criticism and related shorter writings, with full critical and textual commentaries. For further information: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/william-empson-the-structure-of-complex-words-9780198713432?cc=gb&lang=en&
Continue ReadingOlive Schreiner Centenary Workshop, an online roundtable and discussion hosted by the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, on Monday 14 December 2020, 14:00-15:30 (GMT) / 16:00-17:30 (SAST)
On 11 December 1920, the South African writer, novelist and intellectual Olive Schreiner, aged 65, died in her sleep in the historic port city of Cape Town. Buried in the former mining town of Kimberley, Schreiner was later to be exhumed and buried atop Buffelskop Mountain near Cradock—where she wrote at least a significant part […]
Continue ReadingLaura McCormick Kilbride wins CHRGS funding for online archive to digitise David Jones’ letters to Jim Ede at Kettle’s Yard, as part of the David Jones Digital Archive
Digitizing David Jones’ letters to Jim Ede at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge as part of the David Jones Digital Archive In June 2021 a collaboration between the David Jones Research Center and the Faculty of English in the University of Cambridge, Cambridge University Library, Kettle’s Yard Gallery and Cambridge Digital Humanities Learning Programme will begin work […]
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