University of St Andrews, Schools of English and Modern Languages
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
Thursday 26 September, 5.15-7.30pm, Hebdomadar’s room Research seminar with Philippe Beck Inspired by an article published in December 2019 relating how polar bears were dangerously approaching the village of Ryrkaïpii, on the edge of the Arctic banks of the Choucotka River at the north-eastern tip of Russia, the one hundred poems that form Ryrkaïpii (Flammarion, 2023) invite … Read more
Wednesday 25 September, 6-8pm, Parliament Hall Philippe Beck will read a selection of poems (French with English translations), including some from his latest collection, Ryrkaïpii (Flammarion, 2023).
Wednesday 25 September, 2-4pm, Buchanan 216 a Masterclass with Philippe Beck (open to UGs, PGs and researchers) ‘Poetry is here or there. Not everywhere./ It depends on a sortie.’ (Opéradiques, Flammarion, 2014) In this masterclass we addressed the relationship between poetry and the other arts. The following questions were discussed: How does poetry approach the … Read more
1-2pm, 2 April 2024, Buchanan 216 Dr Elodie Laügt The ‘chantier’ has multiple literal and figurative senses: as a site of activity and production in relation to which modern and contemporary French poets have positioned themselves and their practices; as a place whose material, processes and stories are transformed and elevated into poetry; as a … Read more