David Winters has co-edited the collected interviews of writer, editor and teacher Gordon Lish. The book, titled Conversations with Gordon Lish, is published by Mississippi University Press: http://www.upress.state.ms.us/books/2114

Ted Hughes and George Adamson Ted Hughes was one of the great writers for children, and his first three children’s books, Meet My Folks!, The Iron Man and How the Whale Became all benefited from a collaboration with the illustrator George Worsley Adamson (1913-2005). Thanks to the generosity of his son John, Pembroke’s collection includes […]

Dr John Regan’s new book, ‘Poetry and the Idea of Progress, 1760–90’, is published by Anthem Press: http://www.anthempress.com/poetry-and-the-idea-of-progress-1760-90

“A powerful and coherent collection of essays that illuminates the various facets of a fascinating subject. It greatly enriches our sense of the meanings of blood and will have a major impact in medieval and Renaissance studies.”—Michael Schoenfeldt, University of Michigan A new book edited by Bonnie Lander Johnson asks, what is blood? In late […]

Dr Sophie Seita has been invited to curate an exhibition focusing on a century of avant-garde little magazines at Poets House in New York, one of the largest open-stack poetry libraries in the US. Exhibition Opening: May 15, 6pm Talk with exhibition curator Sophie Seita: 7pm This exhibition celebrates the contributions small-press magazines have made […]

Downing College is hosting a book launch for T. S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination by Dr Sarah Kennedy, Fellow in English, on Wednesday 16 May, 5.00-7.00pm in the Howard Building Drawing Room. Described in readers’ reports as ‘enticing and surprising’; ‘clear, perceptive, and, in many respects, definitive’, T. S. Eliot and the Dynamic Imagination is a study of metaphor and the […]

Dr Raphael Lyne gives the British Academy Shakespeare Lecture in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at the Globe Theatre, on Thursday 10 May 2018.   The title of the lecture is ‘Shakespeare and the Wandering Mind’. http://www.shakespearesglobe.com/whats-on-2018/the-british-academy-lecture

Congratulations to the winners of the 2018 Keats-Shelley essay prize: Tara Lee, who graduated from the Cambridge 18cR M.Phil. last year; and Clare Jones, a current 18cR M.Phil. student. http://www.keats-shelley.co.uk/2018-keats-shelley-prize-winners