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

Polyphonic Poetry: Tim Atkins, Cole Swenson, Ariana Reines 16 May 2018, 7:30pm – 10:00pm Venue: Judith E Wilson Drama Studio Curated by Lee Ann Brown, Judith E Wilson Poetry Fellow Tim Atkins – Bio: Some Books: 25 Sonnets (The Figures), Horace (O Books), Koto Y Yo, and Petrarch Collected Atkins (Crater Press), 1000 Sonnets (ifpthenq) […]

Dr Ewan Jones has co-edited a special issue of the journal Essays in Romanticism, with David B. Ruderman and Julia S. Carlson, entitled ‘Romanticizing Historical Poetics’. https://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/eir/25/1  

The fourth Annual Lecture of the Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership will be given by Professor Adriana Cavarero, Head of the Scientific Board of the Hannah Arendt Center for Political Studies at the University of Verona.  Professor Cavarero will speak on ‘Political Phonospheres: Plurality and Crowds’. Time: 5.00pm, Monday 30 April 2018. Venue: 8 Mill Lane, […]

PhD candidate Holly Corfield Carr will be discussing site-specific writing practices in caves on Radio 4’s The Echo Chamber. The programme was recorded on site in Goatchurch Cavern in the Mendips with poet Sean Borodale reading from his latest collection Asylum (Cape, 2018). It was broadcast on Sunday 22nd April at 4.30pm and is available […]

Dr Jessica Berenbeim’s new book is part of a collaboration with curators at the British Museum. It looks at the constitutive role of seals and sealing in hierarchies of social, institutional, and representational status, and also complements the Museum’s ongoing digitisation programme to widen access to this important collection. The book’s title is: Seals and […]