Chicago University Press has issued the paperback edition of Professor Dame Gillian Beer’s Alice in Space: The Sideways Victorian World of Lewis Carroll. http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/A/bo22991911.html

Dr Ross Wilson gave an interview on ‘love letters’ for BBC Radio Cambridgeshire Thordis at Drivetime on 14 February 2018. Link here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05w68n6; Dr Wilson’s interview starts at about 20:20.

Newest Sonnet Makers! Come hear Tim Atkins and Sonnet L’Abbé perform on Wednesday 28 February NEW VENUE: McCrum Theatre, Corpus Christi College (next to The Eagle Tavern) Doors 7.30pm, Reading 8pm Tim Atkins: Some Books: 25 Sonnets (The Figures), Horace (O Books), Koto Y Yo, and Petrarch Collected Atkins (Crater Press), 1000 Sonnets (ifpthenq) and […]

Claudia Tobin discusses Virginia Woolf, colour and insects on Free Thinking BBC Radio 3. You can listen on catch up here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09rm9t4

As she prepares to begin work on a new introduction for the New Cambridge Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, Dr Hester Lees-Jeffries is writing about Romeo and Juliet every day in 2018, line by line. So far she’s got to Act 1 Scene 3 – Romeo and Juliet haven’t actually met yet… You can read the […]

Ted Hughes came to Cambridge in 1951, to read English at Pembroke. In 1953 he dreamed a burned fox entered his room one night as he struggled with an essay.  It told him: ‘Stop this — you are destroying us.’ In February 1956 he met Sylvia Plath at a party to launch St Botolph’s Review. […]

Come hear these stellar poets perform at the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio at Cambridge University, Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge, UK! KATY BOHINC is a poet and data scientist; an avant-garde publisher and a professional marketer; an activist, an astrologer and an innovator. She has three books of poetry: TRINITY STAR TRINITY […]

MATERIALS SEMINAR & READING SERIES Email David Grundy (dmg37@cam.ac.uk) for details Saturday, February 24th Sean Bonney Reading and Seminar UK launch of GHOSTS Sean Bonney will give a paper on Amiri Baraka at 16:00 in GR06/07, English Faculty, University of Cambridge, and a reading at 20:00 in the Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio. This will […]

The 2017-18 issue of the English Faculty Magazine, 9 West Road, is now available on the Faculty website: https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/alumni/newsletter/9westroad17.pdf