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 […]

The Marlowe Society and Crosspath Theatre present Roll Over Atlantic A One-Man Show by John Agard 9:30pm, Monday 13th November 2017 at Corpus Playroom Join poet John Agard on a quirky re-visioning of the notorious New World Enterprise of Christopher Columbus. One of Britain’s foremost cross-cultural voices and winner of the Queen’s Gold Medal for […]

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 […]

Dr Laura Wright gives a Plenary Lecture entitled Sunnyside: a North British Toponym at the Workshop on  Medieval Northern English, University of Seville, 6-7 November 2017. http://grupo.us.es/northernenglish/congresos/workshop-on-medieval-northern-english/    

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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 […]

Throughout September and October 2017, Dr Laura Wright co-hosts BBC Radio 4’s Word of Mouth, a series which explores the world of words and the ways in which we use them. Monday 30 October – Pub Names From The Red Lion to the Bucket of Blood, how did your local get its name?  Michael Rosen […]

To read more about ‘Breaking the Silence – Cambridge speaks out against sexual misconduct’ go to: http://www.cam.ac.uk/news/university-of-cambridge-launches-campaign-to-promote-zero-tolerance-of-sexual-misconduct

Dr Fiona Green gives a talk on Marianne Moore and Revision at ‘Poet in the City: Back to the Beginning’, 18 October: http://www.poetinthecity.co.uk/show-event/?pc_event_id=336 —