The Marlowe Society and Crosspath Theatre present Roll Over Atlantic A One-Man Show by John Agard 9:30pm, Monday 13th November 2017 at Corpus Playroom Join poet John Agard on a quirky re-visioning of the notorious New World Enterprise of Christopher Columbus. One of Britain’s foremost cross-cultural voices and winner of the Queen’s Gold Medal for […]
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita interviewed in ‘Bomb’ about her translation of Uljana Wolf’s ‘Subsisters: Selected Poems’
Dr Sophie Seita interviewed in Bomb about her translation of Uljana Wolf’s Subsisters: Selected Poems. Read the full interview here. Excerpt: SS Uljana and I were talking recently about how I have absorbed some of Germany’s cultural context without necessarily having read what Uljana read in preparation for her books. There are references to Ingeborg Bachmann […]
Continue ReadingDr Laura Wright gives Plenary Lecture at Workshop on Medieval Northern English, November 2017
Dr Laura Wright gives a Plenary Lecture entitled Sunnyside: a North British Toponym at the Workshop on Medieval Northern English, University of Seville, 6-7 November 2017. http://grupo.us.es/northernenglish/congresos/workshop-on-medieval-northern-english/
Continue Reading‘The October Revolution as the Mirror of Third World Aspirations’, King’s College, 3 November 2017
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Continue ReadingEchoes of Paradise: An Evening of Contemporary Responses to Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’, 7 November 2017
Tuesday 7 November, 4.30pm, Christ’s College, Yusuf Hamied Theatre Echoes of Paradise An Evening of Contemporary Responses to Milton’s Paradise Lost, 350 years after its first publication 4:30-5:30pm Lecture by Professor Sir Christopher Ricks : ‘ Milton and those who follow his art towards blasphemy ’ Interval 6:00-7:30pm Music from Trio Apaches, by Sally […]
Continue ReadingDr Laura Wright continues to present ‘Word of Mouth’ on BBC Radio 4
Throughout September and October 2017, Dr Laura Wright co-hosts BBC Radio 4’s Word of Mouth, a series which explores the world of words and the ways in which we use them. Monday 30 October – Pub Names From The Red Lion to the Bucket of Blood, how did your local get its name? Michael Rosen […]
Continue ReadingUniversity of Cambridge launches campaign to promote zero tolerance of sexual misconduct
To read more about ‘Breaking the Silence – Cambridge speaks out against sexual misconduct’ go to: http://www.cam.ac.uk/news/university-of-cambridge-launches-campaign-to-promote-zero-tolerance-of-sexual-misconduct
Continue ReadingDr Fiona Green gives a talk on Marianne Moore at ‘Poet in the City: Back to the Beginning’, October 2017
Dr Fiona Green gives a talk on Marianne Moore and Revision at ‘Poet in the City: Back to the Beginning’, 18 October: http://www.poetinthecity.co.uk/show-event/?pc_event_id=336 —
Continue ReadingDr Rod Mengham joins Tate Modern Curator, Juliet Bingham, for ‘Walk and Talk: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’, 30 October 2017
Dr Rod Mengham joins exhibition curator Juliet Bingham for a walk through ‘Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into the Future’ at Tate Modern, on 30 October 2017, 6.30–8.30pm. The hour-long tour and discussion is followed by a private viewing of the exhibition. ‘Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into […]
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