University of St Andrews, Schools of English and Modern Languages
Elodie Laugt Monday 24th November 2025, 5.30pm-7pm in UCO 32 Dr Bénédicte Letellier This talk offers an overview of contemporary Arabic poetry and its presence across the world. It will explore the main trends and voices shaping the field today, both within the Arab world and in the diaspora. Attention will be given to the themes that dominate … Read more
Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 4pm to 5.30pm, Younger Hall, Stewart Room Artist Leena Nammari, poet Yousif Qasmiyeh, and children’s writer Feda Shtia in conversation about their practice. This event was held in collaboration with the Centre for the Critical Reimagining of Human Rights.
Wednesday, 19 November 2025, 11am to 1pm, Bute Building, A11 Yousif discussed a selection of poems from his two volumes Writing the Camp and Eating the Archive. Please email [email protected] for copies of poems. This event was held in collaboration with the Centre for the Critical Reimagining of Human Rights.
Tuesday, 18 November 2025, 6pm, School III Yousif Qasmiyeh & Contributors to SINK magazine Organised in collaboration with SINK magazine and the Centre for the Critical Reimagining of Human Rights
Tuesday 11th November 2025, 6:00pm-7.30pm – Lawson Lecture Room Jennifer Soong’s recent books of poetry include My Earliest Person (The Last Books, 2025), Comeback Death (Krupskaya, 2024), and Suede Mantis / Soft Rage (Black Sun Lit, 2022). In addition to her poetry, she has published essays in Critical Inquiry, Modernism/modernity, and Post45, among others. In 2025, the University of Chicago Press published her monograph Slips of … Read more
Wednesday 5 November 2025, 5.30pm-7.30pm – Lawson room Karen Solie is the author of six collections of poetry, and the recipient of awards including the Griffin Prize, the Latner Poetry Prize, a Canada Council Martyn Lynch- Staunton Award, a Chalmers Fellowship, and a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship. A volume of selected poems, The Living Option, was … Read more
Tuesday 4 November 2025, 5.30pm-7.30pm – Lawson room St Andrews student Connor Jones lives in Edinburgh. Neutral Wisowb (Mouse Press, 2024) is their first pamphlet. Helena Fornells Nadal is a Catalan poet based in Edinburgh. She is currently engaged in research on the intersection between land politics and ecopoetics. I Could Not Ask You To (Mouse Press, 2025) … Read more
Friday 23 May 2025, 5-7pm, The Garden Seminar Room, Kennedy Hall Stephen Collis is the author of fifteen books of poetry and prose, including The Commons (2008), the BC Book Prize winning On the Material (2010), and Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten (2018)—all published by Talonbooks. A History of the … Read more
The Return of Biography: Leopoldo María Panero’s Letter-Poem to his Father (amid Lessons from Lorca) Wednesday 21 May, 2-4, KEN: 104 – Lawson Lecture Room Professor Federico Bonaddio, King’s College London This lecture centres on Leopoldo María Panero’s letter-poem to his father, Leopoldo Panero, from 1973, which glosses the last poem his father wrote before … Read more
New Perspectives on Ruaraidh Erskine’s Gaelic Magazines and Translation Activities 12 May 2025, 2.30-4.30pm, Hebdomadar’s room The talk will explore the Scottish and international networks that formed around the Gaelic magazines edited and supported by Ruaraidh Erskine in the 1900s – 1930s, including Gaelic circles in Scotland and London, Scottish nationalist politics, visual arts, pan-Celtic … Read more