Wednesday 27th September, 4pm Faculty of English; 8pm Cambridge Unitarian Hall. Two events, two venues across one evening. Join Gerald Nicosia author, poet, biographer and acclaimed Beat scholar for a specially curated evening consisting of a lecture presentation and a live poetry reading. Gerald Nicosia is the author of Memory Babe, the classic biography of […]

Dr Paul Hartle has edited the first complete edition of the poetry of Charles Cotton (1630-1687). https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-poetry-of-charles-cotton-9780198123507?q=charles%20cotton&lang=en&cc=gb

Sophie Seita’s experimental performance piece Les Bijoux Indiscrets, or, Paper Tigers  to be presented at Bold Tendencies, in Peckham, on 29 September. Performed by Vahni Capildeo, Prudence Chamberlain, Adrianna Liedtke, Celine Lowenthal, Nisha Ramayya, Sophie Seita, and Emma Stirling. Sculptural objects, set, and costumes by Anna Moser.

Dr Michael Hurley will give a lecture at The Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts, at the University of St Andrews, on 22 September. The title for his lecture is ‘Faith and Poetic Assent’, and the details for this talk are: http://itia.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/activities/research-seminar/

Dr Sophie Seita (JRF, Queens’) writes about the late British poet Tom Raworth’s editing activities and the avant-garde networks with which he was involved in an article published in Critical Quarterly (Volume 59, Issue 2). http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/criq.12334/epdf

Lotte Reinbold (Graduate Student, Faculty of English and Robinson College) has rediscovered a series of etchings by the Pre-Raphaelite artist William Bell Scott, illustrating the Scots dream poem The Kingis Quair.  Scott undertook the etchings after painting frescoes illustrating the poem in Penkill Castle, Ayrshire, but only printed a very limited number of copies, and […]

Literature Cambridge presents a Study Day, Reading Mrs Dalloway. A full day of lectures and discussion with Woolf scholars Susan Sellers, Trudi Tate and Claire Nicholson. Sat. 16 September, 11 am to 5 pm. £90 / £75 for students and CAMcard holders. Price includes light lunch. More information: http://www.literaturecambridge.co.uk/dalloway/ Bookings: http://staplefordgranary.org.uk/whats-on/reading-mrs-dalloway.aspx Enquiries: info@literaturecambridge.co.uk

Dr Leo Mellor was part of a panel – ‘New Old Lefts’ – at this year’s Modernist Studies Association conference in Amsterdam (MSA19) and gave a paper on ‘Tom Wintringham’s Native Guerrillas’. Sean Richardson tweeted about it here: https://twitter.com/Southldntabby/status/895982061290442752

Dr Deborah Bowman and Dr Leo Mellor co-organised a major round-table at this year’s Modernist Studies Association conference in Amsterdam (MSA19). Their round-table was: ‘The Long 1930s: Aeriality, Sensations, Language’. The other participants were: James Purdon (University of St Andrews), Abbie Garrington (University of Durham), Jeremy Noel-Tod (University of East Anglia), and David Trotter (Cambridge). […]

Jasmine Jagger (Wolfson Scholar Graduate Student, and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of English, University of Oxford) and Dr. Matthew Bevis (Associate Professor, Oxford) have curated and designed an online exhibition on the relationship between Edward Lear and the Tennyson family. The exhibition results from an examination of the entire collection of letters (over 200) […]