After a 4 night run at The Attic theatre in Stratford in July 2018, MSt alumna Rowena Cooper’s play, After Aulis, is to be staged at the Brighton Fringe Festival from 5th-8th May 2019.
Venue: The Quadrant
Time: 6pm, 5th – 8th May 2019
Tickets on sale in March 2019 from https://www.brightonfringe.org/.
More info about the play: http://www.afteraulis.com.
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MSt alumna Rowena Cooper’s play “After Aulis” at Brighton Fringe, 5 – 8 May 2019
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MSt tutor Jane Draycott reading at the British Library, 26 Nov 2018
MSt tutor Jane Draycott will be reading at the British Library on Monday 26 Nov 2018 for Carcanet’s “What makes a Classic?”From the announcement:
One generation’s classics look quite different from another’s. So how do you define them?
To celebrate the launch of Carcanet’s new Carcanet Classics series, we explore how you go about curating a list of classics and what value such collections hold for readers, writers, students or even collectors.
The Carcanet Classics range from books from two millennia BC to those of our own century, from Sumeria to Paterson, New Jersey, from ancient Greece to Anglo-Saxondom. The range includes new takes on ancient texts (two Gilgameshes for example), new readings of the Latin classics and young poets advocating the work of their mentors.Readers at this event include:
– Carcanet’s Founder and Editorial Director, Michael Schmidt
– John Clegg (Selected Poems by John Heath-Stubbs, Sept 2018)
– Jane Draycott (Pearl (trans.), Sept 2018)
– Philip Terry (Dictator (a Gilgamesh translation), Oct 2018)
– Robyn Marsack (Selected Poems by Edmund Blunden, Dec 2018)at the Knowledge Centre, The British Library, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DBon –tickets Full Price: £10.00, Member: £10.00, Senior 60+: £8.00, Student: £7.00, Registered Unemployed: £7.00, Under 18: £7.00Further details and booking information -
MSt tutor Jenny Lewis at the Stanford University Centre, Oxford, 20th Nov 2018
MSt tutor Jenny Lewis will be at the Stanford University Centre in Oxford on the 20th of November 2018, 5 – 7 pm.
From the announcement:
Translating Trauma: Creative Responses to War and Conflict
British poet Jenny Lewis and Iraqi poet Adnan al-Sayegh discuss their approaches to writing and translating war poetry. Jenny will show a presentation of her father’s black and white photographs, taken in Iraq during the First World War Mesopotamian Campaign from her book Taking Mesopotamia (Oxford Poets/ Carcanet 2014) and Adnan al-Sayegh will discuss the horror of his time as a young conscript in the Iran Iraq War and subsequent 18 months in an army detention centre (for reading poetry in the barracks), and read from his celebrated epic poem, Uruk’s Anthem.
The session will include a short translation exercise (no previous translation knowledge necessary) and a Q&A with students to further explore issues around creative responses to trauma.
Stanford University Centre in Oxford
65 High St
Oxford
OX1 4EL
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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis’ “Gilgamesh Retold” launches in London, Oxford, 3rd, 4th Oct, 11th Nov 2018
Jenny Lewis relocates Gilgamesh to its earlier, oral roots in a Sumerian society where men and women were more equal, the reigning deity of Gilgamesh’s city, Uruk, was female (Inanna), only women were allowed to brew beer and keep taverns and women had their own language – emesal. With this shift of emphasis, Lewis captures the powerful allure of the world’s oldest poem and gives it a fresh dynamic while creating a fast-paced narrative for a new generation of readers.‘Not simply a retelling of the ancient epic; it is the spirited response of a contemporary poet to the original legend.’Theodore Ziolkowski, Gilgamesh Among UsSEMINAR, PRIVATE VIEW & CARCANET BOOK LAUNCHWednesday 3 October, 2018,Goldsmiths, University of LondonFree admission to seminar – to attend please email Maria MacDonald, m.macdonald@gold.ac.uk‘NATIONAL POETRY DAY EVENTThursday 4 October 2018,Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.WOODSTOCK POETRY FESTIVAL EVENTThursday 11 November, 2018Oxfordshire launch of Gilgamesh Retold followed by the festival’s popular open mic session. Tickets £5. To buy a ticket/ book a slot contact 01993 812760, or email info@woodstockbookshop.co.uk.
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