Poetry at King's
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The English Department at King’s has organised a series of public poetry readings by contemporary poets to take place during the academic year 2010 - 2011.Readings begin at 18.30 and will take place in the Anatomy Theatre and Museum, King's Building, Strand Campus, King’s College London. The events are free and open to the public.
2010:
12 October - Elaine Feinstein and Medbh McGuckian
6 December - Tom Raworth and Hugo Williams
2011:
7 February - Mimi Khalvati and Fiona Sampson
(co-sponsored with the Royal Society of Literature)
7 March - Michael Longley and Sinead Morrissey
14 March - Paul Muldoon (to be held in the Edmond J Safra lecture theatre, Strand Campus)
24 March - Roddy Lumsden (begins at 16.30 in S2.38) - registration required (see below) - EVENT CANCELLED
24 March - Elaine Feinstein and Sasha Dugdale (begins at 19.00)
EVENT CANCELLED
Contact poetry@kcl for more information.
FREE POETRY EVENT
Of Bodies and Cities: New Queer Poetry by Sophie Mayer and John McCullough
Wednesday 25th May, 18.30 - 20.30, Council Room, King's Building
Please join Poetry@King's and Queer@King's for a reading, discussion and glass of wine to launch two new poetry collections from Salt Publishing. The Private Parts of Girls and The Frost Fairs together ink queer histories and bodies elegantly, passionately and firmly onto the map of British poetry.
Sophie Mayer teaches Creative Writing at King's, and is a Commissioning Editor for Chroma, Europe's premier LGBTQ arts journal. The Private Parts of Girls is her second collection, following Her Various Scalpels (Shearsman, 2009). Her poems, which blur genders, eras, languages and intertexts, burn with secret ways to be a girl: talking back, taking flight, inking skin, becoming the Beast, and facing down a god.
John McCullough teaches at the University of Sussex and for the Open University. The Frost Fairs is his first collection, exploring love in many forms, from modern transatlantic relationships to hidden gay and cross-gendered lives from the past through a striking array of voices, as abandoned lovers watch frost fairs melting on the Thames and drag queens revel in the freedoms afforded by the Blitz.
12 October - Elaine Feinstein and Medbh McGuckian
6 December - Tom Raworth and Hugo Williams
2011:
7 February - Mimi Khalvati and Fiona Sampson
(co-sponsored with the Royal Society of Literature)
7 March - Michael Longley and Sinead Morrissey
14 March - Paul Muldoon (to be held in the Edmond J Safra lecture theatre, Strand Campus)
24 March - Roddy Lumsden (begins at 16.30 in S2.38) - registration required (see below) - EVENT CANCELLED
24 March - Elaine Feinstein and Sasha Dugdale (begins at 19.00)
EVENT CANCELLED
Contact poetry@kcl for more information.
FREE POETRY EVENT
Of Bodies and Cities: New Queer Poetry by Sophie Mayer and John McCullough
Wednesday 25th May, 18.30 - 20.30, Council Room, King's Building
Please join Poetry@King's and Queer@King's for a reading, discussion and glass of wine to launch two new poetry collections from Salt Publishing. The Private Parts of Girls and The Frost Fairs together ink queer histories and bodies elegantly, passionately and firmly onto the map of British poetry.
Sophie Mayer teaches Creative Writing at King's, and is a Commissioning Editor for Chroma, Europe's premier LGBTQ arts journal. The Private Parts of Girls is her second collection, following Her Various Scalpels (Shearsman, 2009). Her poems, which blur genders, eras, languages and intertexts, burn with secret ways to be a girl: talking back, taking flight, inking skin, becoming the Beast, and facing down a god.
John McCullough teaches at the University of Sussex and for the Open University. The Frost Fairs is his first collection, exploring love in many forms, from modern transatlantic relationships to hidden gay and cross-gendered lives from the past through a striking array of voices, as abandoned lovers watch frost fairs melting on the Thames and drag queens revel in the freedoms afforded by the Blitz.
Supported by the King’s Annual Fund, the aim of the Poetry@King's series is to establish King’s as a significant hub for poetry performance, and to act as a creative resource for current students and academics in the College.
The series has been organised and managed by a steering committee of experts and practitioners from within the English Department (Professor Richard Kirkland (chair), Dr Hannah Crawforth, Dr Elizabeth Eger, Professor Clare Lees).
Other events and activities will be scheduled throughout the course of the year.
The series has been organised and managed by a steering committee of experts and practitioners from within the English Department (Professor Richard Kirkland (chair), Dr Hannah Crawforth, Dr Elizabeth Eger, Professor Clare Lees).
Other events and activities will be scheduled throughout the course of the year.
