‘WILD: forms of resistance’, StAnza 2023, takes place from 9-12 March, in St Andrews, live and online. Dr Gorji speaks about wildness on Friday 10 March: https://stanzapoetry.org/events/breakfast-at-the-poetry-cafe-wild/ and reads poems on Sunday 12 March: https://byretheatre.com/shows/stanza-23-reading-mina-gorji-and-tim-cresswell/
Continue ReadingMonth: March 2023
Professor Clair Wills awarded an Honorary Degree from the National University of Ireland
The National University of Ireland honorary degree conferring ceremony took place on Tuesday 7 March 2023. Professor Clair Wills was awarded an Honorary Degree for her exceptional contribution to scholarship in the area of Irish Studies, cultural history, and Irish Literature. Link to the citation by Anne Enright, published in the Irish Times: Clair Wills: […]
Continue ReadingBhanu Kapil talks about poetry and the poems she loves on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Poetry Please’
Link to the recording, which is currently available on BBC Sounds: Poetry Please – Bhanu Kapil – BBC Sounds
Continue ReadingBhanu Kapil reads from a forthcoming book, Bangor University, 6 March 2023
On March 6, Bhanu Kapil gives a reading from a forthcoming book, Incubation: a space for monsters, for Bangor University. Link to further details about this event: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/bhanu-kapil-reading-and-discussion-tickets-560340121387
Continue ReadingCambridge Festival, 18th March – 2nd April
The Faculty of English, Cambridge Festival, 18th March – 2nd April
Continue ReadingMark Wormald and Robert Macfarlane talk about Ted Hughes, fishing, poetry and the environment
To mark the publication of online catalogues of a remarkable collection of material by and relating to Ted Hughes at his alma mater Pembroke College Cambridge, Mark Wormald and Robert Macfarlane talk about Mark’s recent book The Catch: Fishing for Ted Hughes (Bloomsbury, 2022) and about poetry, fishing and Hughes’s passionate advocacy for wild fish […]
Continue Reading