Paper-Stuff: Materiality, Technology and Invention 10-11 September 2018 University of Cambridge, Faculty of English Under the auspices of the Centre for Material Texts and the Writing Britain Conference Series The introduction of paper to the West was a major technological innovation that transformed the ways in which texts of all kinds were transmitted. Having proved […]

Currently on display in the Cambridge English Faculty exhibition space (first floor) are a number of video works (selected by Dr Sophie Seita), broadsides (published by Ian Heames), and Poets Theater materials (compiled by Kevin Killian)—in conjunction with the Polyphonic Poetry and Performance Festival, curated by Lee Ann Brown and Tony Torn.

Our book series with Palgrave Macmillan, Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern Literature (general editors: Holmes, R. E., Mukherji, S., Stuart-Buttle, T., Swann, E. L., Tomlin, R.), has now launched with the e-book publication of the first volume in the series on 21 May 2018. Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern Literature rewrites the story of early modern […]

Law and the Arts: Staging Law, Performing Trials 3 July 2018 Old Divinity School, St John’s College, University of Cambridge A three-part public event embedded in the conference, Law and Poetics in Early Modern England and Beyond (2-4 July, 2018). This event, involving actors, visual artists and legal professionals, comprises: a professional performance event directed […]

Law and Poetics in Early Modern England and Beyond 2–4 July 2018 Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge Law and Literature has come of age, evolving from the vexations of the early 1990s into a thriving field across periods, with the English Renaissance still a major locus. With the authority and intellectual security this progress gives […]

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 […]