Seminars

8th April 2021, 5-6.30pm Sound and Otherness: Theses on Poetry and Thought ‘In this talk, I ask what is at stake in knowing through rhythm, sound and vibrations. I propose that to think through rhythm is to listen to what earth and objects tell us, to cultivate a practice of radical listening, to restore slowness, … Read more

Thursday March 17 2022, 6-7 pm The Centre for Poetic Innovation is teaming up with the Edwin Morgan Trust to present an online information  session, with useful tips about how to bring your poetry collection together in preparation for submission to the 2022 Edwin Morgan Poetry Award: #EMPA2022. The discussion will cover points such as: … Read more

2nd February 2022, 3.30-5pm According to philosopher José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955), what set the “new” (avant-garde) artists and writers apart from their nineteenth-century counterparts was their particular use of metaphor. The poet Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) agreed, although, when it came to the cultivation of complex metaphor, he, like other members of his poetic … Read more

4th November 2021, 4-6pm  a Round Table with Prof. Sara Greaves, Aix-Marseille Université Lou Sarabadzic, Writer and Translator Dr Luc Dall’Armellina, CY Cergy Paris Université Dr Elise Hugueny-Léger, University of St Andrews   Writing in a foreign language, a language which is not one’s so-called ‘native’ language, has become a widely disseminated practice. Through processes … Read more

Thursday 6th May 2021, 6-7.30pm Assessing the Translator’s Commitment to Polysemy: Five English-language Versions of Sonetos del amor oscuro Whether Federico García Lorca (1898-1936) engaged in sonnet-writing for catharsis or to offer his own contribution to stylistic approaches that had suddenly become fashionable again during the early to mid-1930s, he was neither reluctant nor overly … Read more

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

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

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

2nd March 2020, 6pm, St Andrews, Parliament Hall Artist Calum Colvin and poet Robert Crawford talk about a new collaborative project, BREXIT TEARS: Instagraphic Responses

29th October 2019, 5-6.30pm, Buchanan Building 216 “Sculptural Poetry”: Can One Sculpt One’s Text?