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
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Dr Ross Wilson talks about ‘love letters’ on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire, February 2018
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.
Continue ReadingNEW VENUE – Polyphonic Poetry: Sonnet L’Abbé & Tim Atkins – Judith E Wilson Drama Studio, Cambridge University, 7.30pm, Wednesday 28 February
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 […]
Continue ReadingClaudia Tobin on BBC Radio 3, discussing Virginia Woolf, Colour and Insects, February 2018
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
Continue ReadingClaudia Tobin contributes to the exhibition ‘Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by her Writings’, Tate St Ives, 10 February – 29 April 2018
Claudia Tobin has contributed to the exhibition ‘Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by her Writings’, which has recently opened at Tate St Ives. The exhibition is led by Woolf’s writing, which will act as a prism through which to explore feminist perspectives on landscape, domesticity and identity in modern and contemporary art – with works […]
Continue ReadingHappy Valentine’s Day, star-crossed lovers…
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 […]
Continue ReadingCreatures of Light: Ted Hughes at Pembroke — an exhibition in the Faculty Library’s Benson Gallery
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. […]
Continue ReadingPolyphonic Poetry: Katy Bohinc, Andrea Brady, Janice A. Lowe – Judith E. Wilson Drama Studio, Cambridge University, 7.30pm, 21 February 2018
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 […]
Continue Reading‘Alas, Poor Yorick!’: A Sterne 250-Year Anniversary Conference, March 2018
In February 1768 Laurence Sterne – already famous for his provocative ‘Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman’ – published his second novel, ‘A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy’. A few weeks later, this clergyman-turned-author died. 2018 marks the 250-year anniversary of these momentous events, and provides an occasion to celebrate Sterne’s life, work, […]
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