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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis with poet Adnan al-Sayegh, artist Frances Kiernan, exhibition at Iraqi Embassy, London

Exhibition and readings of work by MST tutor Jenny Lewis at Iraqi Embassy cultural event MSt tutor Jenny Lewis joined the distinguished Iraqi poet Adnan al-Sayegh and the British artist Frances Kiernan to present an exhibition of prints and extracts … Continue reading

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MSt tutor John Retallack to direct “As You Like It” at Corpus Christi College, 10th – 13th May

MSt Creative Writing tutor John Retallack is directing a production of As You Like It at Corpus Christi College. The play will be performed both indoors and outdoors in the college Gardens,  Cloisters,  Chapel and  Dining Hall. “The older characters … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Nicoletta Demetriou film “Cypriot Fiddlers” at Wolfson College, 2nd May 2017

MSt tutor Nicoletta Demetriou’s  film “Cypriot Fiddlers” will be screened at Wolfson College, on 2nd May 2017. “The Cypriot Fiddler is an attempt to trace the life stories of a dying class of traditional musicians on both sides of the … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Jane Draycott reads at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival, 6 May 2017

MSt tutor Jane Draycott will be reading from “Pearl” and “The Occupant” at the Cheltenham Poetry Festival on the 6th of May 2017, at 5 pm. From the festival website: ‘Part of the same 14th-century manuscript as Sir Gawain and the Green … Continue reading

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Plays by MSt alumna Jingan Young & MSt tutor Amal Chatterjee in “Foreign Goods Last Forever 2: Visions of England”, 24th, 25th April 2017

Plays by MSt alumna Jingan Young and MSt tutor Amal Chatterjee feature in Jingan Young’s Pokfulam Rd Production’s “”Foreign Goods Last Forever 2: Visions of England”” From the announcement: “After a sell out show at Theatre503 in November of 2016, … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis collaboration “Writing Mesopotamia” events at the Ashmolean, 1st April

MSt tutor Jenny Lewis and Iraqi poet Adnan al-Sayegh celebrate the final stages of their four-year, Arts Council-funded ‘Writing Mesopotamia’ collaboration with two events at the Ashmolean Museum on Saturday 1st April, 2017 ‘Who Can Climb the Sky?’ and the … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Harry Man shortlisted for 2016 Ted Hughes Award

MSt tutor Harry Man has been shortlisted for the 2016 Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry, for  Finders Keepers (Sidekick Books). From the Poetry Society’s announcement: “Described as a poetic field guide to Britain’s vanishing wildlife, the book Finders Keepers … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Jamie McKendrick awarded 2016 John Florio prize for translation

MSt tutor Jamie McKendrick has been awarded the 2016 John Florio prize for translation from Italian for his translation of Antonella Anedda’s Archipelago. ‘Where Anedda crisscrosses the usual navigational lines between poetry and prose, McKendrick expertly follows, occasionally shifting course … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch shortlisted in the 2016 Live Canon International Poetry Competition

“Spitfire Kitchen” by MSt tutor Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch was shortlisted for the 2016 Live Canon International Poetry Competition. More on the shortlist, the judge and the winner.

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MSt tutor Jane Draycott’s “Italy to Lord” is Guardian’s poem of the week, 2nd Jan 2016

MSt tutor Jane Draycott’s  poem “Italy to Lord” is The Guardian‘s poem of the week

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