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Author Archives: MSt Creative Writing
MSt tutor Jenny Lewis on her project “Promoting poetry through public engagement”, Carcanet blog
“In May 2016 I won the Inaugural Warden’s Prize for Public Engagement in Doctoral Research at Goldsmiths. The award reflected the way my doctoral studies into Mesopotamian literature and my retelling of the Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh(forthcoming from Carcanet Press … Continue reading
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MSt alumnus Martin Jago’s translation of “Antigone” at the Mark Taper Auditorium, Los Angeles on 10th Sept 2017
MSt alumnus Martin Jago’s translation of Sophocles’ Antigone is getting a staged reading at The Mark Taper Auditorium in the downtown Los Angeles Public Library. 2pm, 10th September. Entrance free. For more details visit the company webpage
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MSt tutor Helen Mort explores voices from around the world for BBC Radio 4
MSt tutor Helen Mort presents BBC Radio 4’s “Bodies in Motion” series. From the Radio 4 announcement: “The first edition of a new globe-trotting poetry series. Poet Helen Mort explores exciting voices from around the world. This week, she hears … Continue reading
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MSt tutor George Szirtes awarded honorary doctorate by the University of East Anglia
(image from George Szirtes’ blog) MSt tutor George Szirtes has been awarded honorary doctorate by the University of East Anglia. The press release announces: “George Szirtes lives in Wymondham and is a poet and translator and retired UEA reader: Born … Continue reading
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MSt alumna Jing-Jing Lee’s novel “How We Disappeared” to be published by Oneworld
(image from The Bookseller) From The Bookseller: “Oneworld is to publish a “searing” novel set in occupied Singapore by Oxford graduate Jing-Jing Lee. Publisher Juliet Mabey bought World English rights to How We Disappeared from Nelle Andrew at PFD. How … Continue reading
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MSt alumna Marie Gethins win Dorset Fiction Award
MSt alumna Marie Gethins’ short story “The Old Man” has won the 2017 Dorset Fiction Award. Read about the prize, and read the story and an interview with Marie: “One piece of advice? Listen and keep an open mind.”
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MSt tutors Clare Morgan, Roopa Farooki, Alice Jolly at Waterstones, Gower St, London, Wed, 12th July 2017
Clare Morgan, Roopa Farooki and Alice Jolly will be taking part in a panel discussion on Literary Fiction at Waterstones, Gower Street, London at 6.30 pm on Wednesday 12th July. Tickets are £6.00 and include a glass of wine. Do come along … Continue reading
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MSt tutor Prof Belinda Jack’s lecture “Poetry and Immortality: John Keats’ ‘Ode to a Nightingale'” available online
MSt tutor Prof Belinda Jack’s lecture Poetry and Immortality: John Keats’ ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ is available online. It has attracted over 30,000 views to date.
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MSt tutor Prof Belinda Jack gives her final lecture as Gresham Professor of Rhetoric
MSt tutor Professor Belinda Jack, Fellow and Tutor in French at Christ Church, gave her final lecture as Gresham Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College on Tuesday 9 May 2017, at the Museum of London in the Barbican. The lecture … Continue reading
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MSt tutor Rebecca Abrams to be Writer-in-Residence at Brasenose
MSt tutor Rebecca Abrams is to be Writer-in-Residence at Brasenose College, Oxford, starting in October 2017.
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