John Kerrigan lectures in Lisbon, November 2017

On 20 November, John Kerrigan will give a public lecture ‘On Hamlet‘ in the Faculdade de Letras at the Universidade de Lisboa.  On 22 November, he will give a second public lecture entitled ‘Otters and Others: Contemporary Poetry’ at the Universidade Católica Portuguesa.

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As Waves of One Sea: Transatlantic Encounters in African American Culture, Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, 20-21 November 2017

As Waves of One Sea: Transatlantic Encounters in African American Culture (part of Being Human: A Festival of the Humanities 2017) Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts, University of Sussex, 20-21 November 2017 From deep in the vaults of the University of Sussex, voices whisper stories – speaking of rivers and the Black Atlantic, singing […]

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Dr Michael D. Hurley’s new book, “Faith in Poetry” published by Bloomsbury, November 2017

Dr Michael D. Hurley’s new book, “Faith in Poetry”, is published by Bloomsbury in November. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/faith-in-poetry-9781474234078/ In this ambitious book, Michael D. Hurley explores how five great writers – William Blake, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot – engaged their religious faith in poetry, with a view to asking why […]

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Dr Sophie Seita interviewed in ‘Bomb’ about her translation of Uljana Wolf’s ‘Subsisters: Selected Poems’

Dr Sophie Seita interviewed in Bomb about her translation of Uljana Wolf’s Subsisters: Selected Poems. Read the full interview here. Excerpt: SS Uljana and I were talking recently about how I have absorbed some of Germany’s cultural context without necessarily having read what Uljana read in preparation for her books. There are references to Ingeborg Bachmann […]

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Echoes of Paradise: An Evening of Contemporary Responses to Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’, 7 November 2017

Tuesday 7 November, 4.30pm, Christ’s College, Yusuf Hamied Theatre Echoes of Paradise ​A​n Evening of Contemporary Responses to Milton’s Paradise Lost, 350 years after its first  publication 4:30-5:30pm ​ Lecture by Professor Sir Christopher Ricks : ‘​ Milton and those who follow his art towards blasphemy ​’​ Interval 6:00-7:30pm​ Music from Trio Apaches, by Sally […]

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