University of St Andrews, Schools of English and Modern Languages
Elodie Laugt 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
4 April 2025, 10-12noon Hebdomadar’s room An octopus has a decentralised brain distributed throughout their body; each arm is an independent mind. A poem too has more than one brain and each line has own mind. For a poem to withstand the erosion of reading, it needs to find multiple intelligence in its singular body. Informed … Read more
3 April 2025, 6-7.30pm UCO, School III Kit Fan writes poetry and fiction. His third poetry collection The Ink Cloud Reader (2023) was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Forward Prize. His first novel is Diamond Hill (2021). He was shortlisted twice for the Guardian 4th Estate BAME Short Story Prize, and a winner of the Hong Kong University International Poetry Prize, Northern … Read more
Poetics of Landscapes seminar series Tuesday 25 March 2025, 1-2pm, UCO30 Dr Natalia Sassu Suarez Ferri By the end of the 1960s, Paris had become a vibrant hub for Latin American artists seeking visibility, access to cultural networks, and often refuge from political oppression. Within this dynamic environment, artists pursued innovative methods to engage public … Read more
19 March and 2 April 2025, 2:00–3:30pm, BUC 305 Creative writing in Arabic is often seen as the domain of native speakers. While the strict grammar rules can feel restrictive, writing creatively in this language is not only possible for non-native speakers: it’s also a powerful way to deepen language learning from a fresh, often overlooked … Read more
12 March 2025, 6-7:30pm, UCO School III Laynie Browne is a poet, prose writer, artist, editor and teacher. Her recent books of poetry include: Everyone & Her Resemblances (Pamenar, 2024), Intaglio Daughters (Ornithopter 2023), Practice Has No Sequel (Pamenar 2023), Letters Inscribed in Snow (Tinderbox 2023), and Translation of the Lilies Back into Lists (Wave Books, 2022). In 2024 a solo show of her collage titled “On the Way … Read more
24 February 2025, 1-2pm, UCO 31 Dr Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh, University College Cork Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuigh is a poet from Ireland who writes exclusively in the Irish language. A bilingual collection, The Coast Road, was published by the Gallery Press in 2016 with English translations by thirteen poets. Her own translations from the French of … Read more
19 November 2024, 1-2pm, Arts Seminar Room 9 Dr Robin MacKenzie, School of Modern Languages, University of St Andrews Scenes from the Shoormal: Drift Objects in Some Contemporary Scottish Poems Icelandic archaeologist Þóra Pétursdóttir claims in her 2018 essay ‘Drift’ that ‘the Anthropocene – the “Age of Man” – is in essence an age of … Read more
4 November 2024, 1-2pm, Arts Seminar Room 5 Professor Mary Orr (University of St Andrews) Where is The Gambia? Why does it matter? How has it been accounted for in histories of geography and science? And how through the double pen of Sarah Bowdich in 1824 can it inform current research in environmental and ‘blue’ … Read more
A Public Presentation in collaboration with the Dazzling Spark Arts Foundation 8 October, 6-8pm, UCO School 3 Internationally acclaimed poet Anton Floyd shares excerpts and stories from his remarkable collection Depositions which was recently selected by the National Library of Scotland to showcase National Poetry Day in Scotland. Already acclaimed in a multi-lingual edition, published … Read more