University of St Andrews, School of Modern Languages
27th April 2022, 5.15-6.45pm Professor Anahid Nersessian’s Keats’s Odes has been called “a radical and unforgettable reading” of Keats’s poetry, earning rave reviews in publications like the TLS, the Washington Post, the Nation, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Boston Globe, which named it one of the Best Books of 2021. Nersessian collects and elucidates each of the odes and … Read more
Wednesday 8th December 2021, 5.15-6.45pm, Byre Theatre “It was lovely to hear the Gaelic…” Pàdraig MacAoidh will discuss his own work as a poet and editor, and address the questions of what it means to write – and read – Gaelic poetry in contemporary Scotland, and the bridges between Gaelic poetry and other European literatures. … Read more
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
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
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
11th May 2018, 5-7pm Gateway Boardroom, Gateway Building, St Andrews Followed by a round table with Robert Crawford Anna Crowe & Peter Mackay Chaired by Jordi Larios
Nothing is Lost, by Jordi Doce & Selected Poems, by Eduardo Moga 13th October 2017 Byre Theatre (Studio, 5.15-7pm) Jordi Doce, born in 1967, is a poet and literary critic. He has translated the work of W. H. Auden, Ted Hughes and Charles Tomlinson, among others. He currently lives in Madrid, where he works as … Read more
7th March 2017, 6-8pm Buchanan Theatre (Union Street) Scott Rettberg – ‘Three Rails Live’ and ‘Toxi*City’ ‘The Listeners’ – John Cayley performs with the UK version of his ‘skill’ (or app) for the Amazon Echo and Alexa.
18th November 2016, 5.30-7pm Byre Theatre Studio Oli’s first collection of poems, Between Two Windows (Carcanet, 2012), won the English Association’s Michael Murphy Memorial Prize, an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors, and was a book of the year in the Guardian, Financial Times and Times Literary Supplement. A pamphlet of prose poems, Within … Read more