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Charles Moseley’s ‘Hungry Heart Roaming: an Odyssey of sorts’ is published by The Black Spring Press Group, November 2020
The theme of Charles Moseley’s new book is partly memory and inheritance, and particularly what it means to be an heir of European history. It’s about love, and loss, glory and grief, and it ends on a note of careful, paradoxical hope. For more information, see https://store.eyewearpublishing.com/collections/autumn-titles-2020/products/hungry-heart-roaming-an-odyssey-of-sorts
Continue ReadingDr Lisa Mullen contributes a chapter to ‘The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four’, ed. by Nathan Waddell (Cambridge University Press, 2020)
Dr Lisa Mullen publishes a book chapter, ‘Orwell’s Literary Context: Modernism, Language, and Politics’, in The Cambridge Companion to Nineteen Eighty-Four, ed. by Nathan Waddell (Cambridge University Press, 2020). Link for further information.
Continue ReadingJudith E Wilson Centre for Poetry and Poetics presents A Celebration of Indigenous North American Poetry and Language: Margaret Noodin (Ojibwe), Karenne Wood (Monacan) read by Adrienne Brown, Michelle Sylliboy (Mi’kmaq, L’nu). Tuesday 3 November, 4-5.30pm on Zoom. All welcome!
For further information about Margaret Noodin’s work: https://ojibwe.net/ For further information about Michelle Sylliboy’s work: https://msylliboy.wixsite.com/website
Continue ReadingDr Lisa Mullen writes and presents ‘Sunday Feature: Sloe Time’, Radio 3, broadcast 4/10/2020
Written and presented by Lisa Mullen and featuring an interview with Rob Macfarlane, this feature for R3 examined the cultural history and ecological entanglements of the often overlooked blackthorn – a hedgerow species which has been used in medicine and gin-making, is prized by woodworkers for its toughness, and is associated with superstitions and folk […]
Continue ReadingBBC National Short Story Award in partnership with Cambridge University
The winners of the National Short Story Award and the Young Writers Award were announced on Radio 4’s Front Row programme on 6th October. Sarah Hall won the NSSA for the second time with her story ‘The Grotesque’, while Lottie Mills – currently a second year undergraduate in English at Cambridge – won the Young […]
Continue ReadingHeaven Is All Goodbyes: The Poetry of Tongo Eisen-Martin, Zoom event: 6pm, Wednesday, 14th October
Heaven Is All Goodbyes: The Poetry of Tongo Eisen-Martin 6pm, Wednesday, 14th October In the words of Ben Lerner, Tongo Eisen-Martin’s poems are echo chambers of vernaculars and unofficial languages. He both registers the damage caused by systemic racism and evinces—and by his work extends—the rich modes of resistance that rise up to meet it. […]
Continue ReadingDr Orietta Da Rold publishes ‘Paper in Medieval England: From Pulp to Fictions’ (CUP, 2020)
Dr Orietta Da Rold provides a detailed analysis of the coming of paper to medieval England, and its influence on the literary and non-literary culture of the period. Looking beyond book production, Dr Da Rold maps out the uses of paper and explains the success of this technology in medieval culture, considering how people interacted […]
Continue ReadingLaura Wright (ed), ‘The Multilingual Origins of Standard English’, Mouton de Gruyter, was published on 7 September 2020
This collaboration by nineteen historical linguists shows why the current textbook explanations of the origins of Standard English are incorrect, and sugges an alternative explanation. https://www.degruyter.com/view/title/573343
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