MSt alumna Maya Popa is to one of the judges for the 2017 Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine. The other judges are Neal Baer, Jorie Graham, Jackie Kay, Owen Lewis .
“Now in its 8th year, the Hippocrates Prize has attracted over 8000 entries from over 60 countries, from the Americas to Fiji and Finland to Australasia. All awards are for a single unpublished poem in English of up to 50 lines of verse on a medical theme. ”
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.
“The Poetry for Peace project is aimed at building bridges between English and Arabic-speaking communities. Generously supported by Arts Council England, Oxford University Museums and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), the project involved poets Adnan al-Sayegh and Jenny Lewis working with over sixty 11-17 year olds from four Oxford schools on themes of heritage and peace”
The Letters Page, a digital literary journal in letters edited by Jon McGregor, is now available as a limited edition boxed set published by, and with cover design by, MSt alumna Ioanna Mavrou, in collaboration with Thodoris Tzalavras:
“Contents:
Letters from: George Saunders, Clare Wigfall, Éireann Lorsung, Joanna Walsh, Andrey Kurkov, Naomi Alderman, Sam Riviere, Cassie Gonzales, Kevin Barry, Karen McLeod, Claudia Reed, S E Craythorne, Maria Papas, and Ken Sears.”
The Letters Page Vol. 1, Edited by Jon McGregor
Book design by Ioanna Mavrou & Thodoris Tzalavras
Boxed set contains book and loose-leaf letter reproductions
Limited Edition: 500 copies
Book Ex Machina, Nicosia, November 2016
ISBN 978-9963-9858-6-9
€ 29.95
MSt tutor Jane Draycott’s poetry is to feature in London Underground’s Poems on the Underground,
(Series image credit Paul Wolfgang Webster)
Podcasts of lectures and public engagements by Oxford University’s Professor of Poetry Simon Armitage, poet, playwright and novelist, are available as podcasts.
Episodes include “Access All Areas: Poetry and the Underworld”, “On Lists”) “Mind the Gap: Negation and ‘a final revelation of horrible Nothingness -‘” , “The Parable of the Solicitor and the Poet”.
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