Events

Reading by Jennifer Soong

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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

Poetry reading with Connor Jones, Helena Fornells Nadal and Eleni Kefala

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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

Reading by Stephen Collis and Annie LaFleur

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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

Annual Lecture, Professor Federico Bonaddio

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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

Translation seminar with Dr Petra Poncarová

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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

Poem and Octopus: Masterclass with Kit Fan

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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

Reading by Kit Fan

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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

The poetics of participation: kinetic art in the streets of Paris (1966-1969)

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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

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