{"id":696,"date":"2015-01-23T11:35:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T11:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=696"},"modified":"2019-01-24T13:10:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T13:10:33","slug":"kellogg-college-creative-writing-seminar-series-emma-jones-5th-march-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=696","title":{"rendered":"Kellogg College Creative Writing Seminar Series: Emma Jones, 5th March 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Medium of Poetry\u201d<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n

with MSt tutor Emma Jones<\/p>\n

Mawby Room, Kellogg College,
\n62 Banbury Road
\n5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm<\/p>\n

All are welcome and no bookings are necessary<\/p>\n

<\/h2>\n

Emma Jones\u2019<\/strong> first book, The Striped World<\/em>, was published by Faber & Faber in 2009, was awarded the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Queensland Premier’s Award for Best Collection, and the Anne Elder Award, and was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, among others. She has written the libretto for City Songs<\/em>, a contemporary oratorio, with composer Eriks Esenvalds, which premiered at The Round House in London with vocalist Imogen Heap. Emma has held writing fellowships in Cambridge, the Lake District, Rome and Riga, and is at work on a second book. She tutors in poetry on Oxford\u2019s MSt in Creative Writing. <\/span><\/p>\n

Seminar Convenor: Dr Clare Morgan<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.kellogg.ox.ac.uk\/researchcentres\/CW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Medium of Poetry\u201d with MSt tutor Emma Jones Mawby Room, Kellogg College, 62 Banbury Road 5 pm (refreshments) for 5.30 pm All are welcome and no bookings are necessary Emma Jones\u2019 first book, The Striped World, was published by Faber & Faber in 2009, was awarded the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1,4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-publications","category-tutor_news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p40Qhf-be","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2580,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.conted.ox.ac.uk\/mstcw\/?p=2580","url_meta":{"origin":696,"position":0},"title":"George Szirtes on translation at Kellogg College","author":"MSt Creative Writing","date":"April 21, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest event in the continuing seminar series at the Kellogg College Centre for Creative Writing will feature distinguished poet and MSt tutor, George Szirtes. 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