MSt tutor Jenny Lewis (Sur le Pont des Arts), alumna Alexandra Strnad (The Eyemouth Tapestry and November) and student Majella Kelly (Clipping A Cockatiel’s Wings (for Dummies)) were all finalists for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2017.
MSt tutor Jenny Lewis (Sur le Pont des Arts), alumna Alexandra Strnad (The Eyemouth Tapestry and November) and student Majella Kelly (Clipping A Cockatiel’s Wings (for Dummies)) were all finalists for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2017.
“Finding a Voice and Losing it Again: Influence, Expectation and Identity”
Maura Dooley
Mawby Room, Kellogg College,
62 Banbury Road
5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm
All are welcome and no bookings are necessary
Maura Dooley’s most recent collection of poetry is The Silvering (Bloodaxe). Anthologies she has edited include The Honey Gatherers: Love Poems and How Novelists Work. In 2015 she was Poet-in-Residence at the Jane Austen House Museum, Chawton. Her poems from the residency are published as a pamphlet: A Quire of Paper. In 2014 she published a pamphlet of versions (with Elhum Shakerifa) of work by the exiled Iranian poet Azita Ghahreman. She has twice been short-listed for the TS Eliot Award and twice for the Forward Single Poem Award. Her work has received an Eric Gregory Award and a Cholmondeley Award. She has directed Literature festivals, worked with Jim Henson film and Performing Arts Labs and currently teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan
MSt student Camille Ralphs’ Malkin (Emma Press) has been shortlisted for the Michael Marks Award for new poetry pamphlets, awarded by the British Library with the Wordsworth Trust.
MSt tutor Anna Beer’s Sounds and Sweet Airs has been chosen by Anthony Tomassini, chief classical music critic of The New York Times, as one of his Gift Ideas for Classical Music Fans.