Submerged Reliquary of a Kentish Saint: a new essay-film by Sophie Mei Birkin, Eleanor Myerson and Bartek Dziadosz When: 2 December 2022, 6.30pm Venue: Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, 43 Gordon Square The screening will be accompanied by a talk by Professor Robert Mills, author of Derek Jarman’s Medieval Modern (Boydell and Brewer, 2018). Followed by […]

The Paper and Poetry team is delighted to have been granted a Judith Wilson practice-led research grant for Paper and Poetry: Invention Through Craft: a symposium for academics and creative writers who work with paper. The Paper and Poetry team is made up of Orietta Da Rold (professor of medieval literature), Vona Groarke (poet-in-residence at St John’s […]

Bhanu Kapil and Fran Lock will be reading at the Barbican on November 30th, as part of an event curated by the87 press (The Uncollected), to accompany Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics.

Simon Jackson, George Herbert and Early Modern Musical Culture (Cambridge University Press, 2022) Publishing on 1 December Described by one contemporary as the ‘sweet singer of The Temple’, George Herbert has long been recognised as a lover of music. Nevertheless, Herbert’s own participation in seventeenth-century musical culture has yet to be examined in detail. This […]