Elodie Laugt

Seminar with Dr Gianluca Rizzo (Colby College, Northward)

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18th February 2021, 4-5.30pm. On the Outside of the Language Forest: Reading, Writing, and Translating Poetry A literary critic, translator and poet, Gianluca Rizzo teaches at Colby College (Waterville, ME), where he is the Paul D and Marilyn Paganucci Associate Professor of Italian Language and Literature. His research focuses on modern and contemporary macaronic writing, … Read more

Lecture by Professor Gregory Lee

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European and American Poetries and the Creation of a Modern Chinese Lyric Discourse Lecture by Professor Gregory Lee (University of St Andrews) 4th February 2021, 5.30-7pm. When general readers think of Chinese poetry, they imagine perhaps bearded sages writing poetry in misty mountain retreats. But today’s Chinese poetry is an altogether different matter. But where … Read more

Seminar with Dr Anahid Nersessian (UCLA, University of California)

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23rd November 2020, 7-8.30pm The Calamity Form chaired by Dr Ramsey McGlazer Anahid Nersessian is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, where her research and teaching focus on Romanticism, poetry and poetics, and the history of literary criticism. Her first book, Utopia, Limited: Romanticism and Adjustment was published by Harvard University … Read more

Reading by Jocelyn Saidenberg

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Tuesday 3rd November 2020, 7-8.30pm Jocelyn Saidenberg is a writer, educator, and performer based in the Bay Area. Her recent books include: kith & kin (The Elephants, 2018), Dead Letter (Roof Books, 2014), and Negativity (Atelos Press, 2007). In her work she wagers that poetry has the capacity to open up imaginative, psychic, and structural … Read more

Seminar with Prof. Nina Parish (University of Stirling) and Dr Emma Wagstaff (University of Birmingham)

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7th October 2020, 4.30-6pm Editing Bilingual Poetry Anthologies in the Twenty-First Century In 2016 Nina Parish and Emma Wagstaff published a bilingual poetry anthology of contemporary French poetry with Enitharmon Press. As well as co-editing the volume, they each translated an extract of work by one poet for inclusion in it. The first part of … Read more

An evening with Miguel d’Ors

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1st April 2020, 6pm ‘It’s a strange thing to be a poet’ Co-hosted by Byre World Miguel d’Ors is one of Spain’s foremost contemporary poets. He has published 13 books of poetry, which have recently been collected in the volume Poesías completas 2019. Varied and diverse in terms of its themes, tones, influences and approaches ­­(albeit, … Read more

Stanza 2019 Festival

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10th March 2019, 1-2pm Town Hall, Queens Gdns – Council Chamber We were delighted to support the Palestinian Poetry Showcase Palestinian poet born in Damascus, Ghayath Almadhoun, and his translator, Catherine Cobham, read poems from Adrenalin (Action Books, 2017. Mustafa Abu Sneineh read some of his poems published in A Blade of Grass (Smokestacks books, … Read more

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