University of St Andrews, Schools of English and Modern Languages
Elodie Laugt 27 October, 2-4.30pm, Hebdomadar’s room A workshop conceived to explore further the collective poems that emerged from the workshops held in June 2023 and designed in response to the themes of the EE2023 conference Financing the Future – with a focus on exploring ‘visions of and expectations for the future’, ‘relations of obligation and indebtedness’, … Read more
25 October 2023, 2-4pm, Buchanan building, room 216 Over the past ten years a growing number of writers and artists from Hong Kong have established themselves in Scotland and elsewhere in the global Hong Kong diaspora. As a result of dwindling freedoms in the former British colony, this tendency can only intensify. Our panel discussion … Read more
25 October 2023, 5.30-7pm, Bute Building, C42 – Lecture Theatre D Poets from Scotland and England who identify with the Hong Kong Chinese British diaspora read their poems. The poets Tim Tim Cheng, Anna Cheung, Sean Wai Keung, Wendy Law and Jennifer Wong will read from their recent work. The evening will highlight the 2023 … Read more
Eleni Kefala and Peter Constantine with Elodie Laügt in collaboration with Byre World 20 September 2023, 6.30pm – Byre Theatre Time Stitches by Eleni Kefala is a poetry book about roots and uprooting, personal and collective history in a broken time, and the power of poetry to stitch together the threads of our past and future. … Read more
2 June 2023, Hebdomadar’s Room 8 June 2023, Younger Hall Stewart Room (drop-in, EE 2023 conference attendees only) Two workshops created to accompany EE2023 Financing the Future, presented in collaboration with the Centre for Energy Ethics. Designed and co-hosted by CEE’s Artist in Residence Rebecca Sharp and Elodie Laügt Good Till The Close is a ‘fortune-telling’, poem-generating … Read more
3rd April 2023, 5.15-6.30pm Alexander Dickow reading will include excerpts from Déblais (w/English translations), Caramboles in both languages, Appétits/Appetites in both languages, Un grenier in French only, as well as excerpts from unpublished work in English (from two works: Duet With Commentary, and Hob’s Labor, two narrative works in verse). Alexander Dickow is a poet and … Read more
Thursday 10th March 2022, 6pm, Lecture Theatre School 3, St Salvator’s Quad Decomposition Apricots of Donbas Translated from the Ukrainian by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky The Centre for Poetic Innovation, in collaboration with the Centre for Russian, Soviet, Central and Eastern European Studies at the University of St Andrews & the Ukrainian Society at … Read more
9th March 2023, 5-7 pm Following the workshop that took place on 07 February 2023 we were delighted to welcome Davide D’Elia and Elisa Del Prete (Nos Visual Arts Production) for the ‘Tiepido Cool All Over St Andrews’ event. Italian visual artist Davide D’Elia and curator of NOS Visual Arts Production, Elisa Del Prete, came … Read more
7th February 2023, 2-5pm We are inviting you to take part in an interactive workshop, as part of D’Elia’s European tour. D’Elia’s book was officially launched in Autumn in Bologna and will continue being presented with the programme Tiepido Cool All Over, including at the MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome (Italy). The … Read more
23rd November 2022, 6.30-8.00pm, School 3, St Salvator Quad in partnership with the Centre for Critical & Creative Cultures (University of Dundee) Lisa Robertson is a poet, essayist and translator, whose work moves between poetry, prose, philosophy and visual arts. In 2004 she moved from Vancouver to France where she has been living since then. … Read more