{"id":1636,"date":"2019-01-17T11:03:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T11:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2019-01-24T13:02:12","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:02:12","slug":"mst-tutor-jenny-lewis-reads-at-pembroke-college-oxford-21st-jan-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=1636","title":{"rendered":"MSt tutor Jenny Lewis reads at Pembroke College, Oxford, 21st Jan 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis will be reading at Pembroke College, Oxford on 21st January 2019 at 6 pm.<\/p>\n

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“Jenny Lewis is an Arts Council-funded poet, playwright, children\u2019s author, translator and songwriter who teaches poetry at Oxford University. Her first poetry sequence, When I Became an Amazon (Iron Press, 1996), was dramatized, widely toured and broadcast on BBC Woman\u2019s Hour. It was translated into Russian by Natalya Dubrovina and published by Bilingua, Russia in 2002. It was made into an opera with music by Gennadyi Shiroglazov, performed by the Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Company in November 2017 and won the 2018 Russian Laureate Prize . Jenny has published four collections of poetry and had seven plays and poetry cycles performed at major UK theatres including the Polka Theatre (for children), the Leicester Haymarket and the Royal Festival Hall. Her recent work includes After Gilgamesh (Pegasus Theatre, 2011; Mulfran Press, 2012), Stories for Survival, a Retelling of the 1001 Arabian Nights (Pegasus Theatre, 2015), Singing for Inanna, a chapbook of poems in English and Arabic with the Iraqi poet, Adnan al-Sayegh (Mulfran Press 2014) and Taking Mesopotamia (Oxford Poets\/ Carcanet 2014). Her latest work, Gilgamesh Retold (Carcanet Press 2018), was a New Statesman Book of the Year, a Carcanet Book of the Year and a London Review of Books Book of the Week. Her work has been translated into several languages including Russian, Farsi and Arabic. She is currently completing a Ph.D. on Gilgamesh at Goldsmiths, London University.”<\/p>\n

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