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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis in “Now and Then: Poetry for Peace”, Ashmolean Museum, 17th October 2015

Now and Then: Poetry for Peace Saturday 17 October, 11am–12pm Free, no booking required. MSt tutor Jenny Lewis and Adnan al Sayegh will be reading in the Near Eastern Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford “in celebration in one … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Nicoletta Demetriou on ‘Collecting music, collecting life stories: The Cypriot Fiddler project.’ Wolfson College, 20th October 2015

MSt tutor Nicoletta Demetriou  will be speaking about “her attempt to record the stories of Cyprus’s last surviving traditional fiddlers. She will talk about what musicians’ life stories can tell us about the music and society we are looking at, … Continue reading

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Poetry Society commissions MSt tutor Jane Draycott and others for “Beginning to See the Light”, 8th Oct 2015

The Poetry Society has commissioned new pieces from MSt tutor Jane Draycott,  Raymond Antrobus, Malika Booker, Holly Corfield Carr,  Caleb Klaces and Richard Price, for the National Poetry Day show “Beginning to See the Light” at the Southbank Centre, London. … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Roopa Farooki in exhibition by photographer Lucinda Douglas Menzies

(photograph by Lucinda Douglas Menzies, from exhibition site) MSt tutor Roopa Farooki features in an an exhibition of portraits of South Asian writers by Lucinda Douglas Menzies  in Spitalfields from 7th-13th October at 6 Puma Court, E1 6QG.

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MSt tutor Nicoletta Demetriou co-authors “Music in Cyprus”

The volume of essays, Music in Cyprus, co-authored by MSt tutor Nicoletta Demetriou and Jim Samson, Emeritus Professor of Music at Royal Holloway, University of London, has been published by Ashgate. “The authors consider such questions as: What is the role of … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis on being one of the “Mulberry Bush Women of the Year 2015”

One of my students very sweetly nominated me as a ‘Mulberry Bush Women of the Year 2015’ and I was duly invited to lunch at Balliol. I was surprised and grateful to be nominated as the nominees are chosen as … Continue reading

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Kellogg College Creative Writing Seminar Series: Marti Leimbach, 4 November 2015

“Writing Scandalously: Serious Sex Scenes for the Non-Genre Writer” with Marti Leimbach Mawby Room, Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road 5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm All are welcome and no bookings are necessary Marti Leimbach is the author of seven … Continue reading

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MSt Tutor George Szirtes article in The Guardian on Hungary, refugees and Viktor Orbán’s government

MSt tutor George Szirtes’ article, “Hungary has been shamed by Viktor Orbán’s government” has been published in The Guardian.

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“How to get Published” session, chaired by MSt Director, Dr Clare Morgan

Dr Clare Morgan: (LMH and Kellogg College), novelist, literary critic and Director of the MSt in Creative Writing Dr Angus Philips: (Exeter), author of The Future of the Book in the Digital Age and Director of Publishing Studies at Oxford … Continue reading

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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis on POESI-O-RAMA Festival, Malmö, Sweden, 2015

‘The music says freedom exists…’ MSt Tutor, Jenny Lewis, at the POESI-O-RAMA Festival, Malmö, Sweden, 11-13 September, 2015 I was honoured to be asked to read with Adnan al-Sayegh at the POESI-O-RAMA Festival in Malmo, Sweden on 12 September 2015. … Continue reading

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