Monthly Archives: January 2013

Andrea Brady on Conceptual Writing and Bondage

Do come along on Monday 4 February to the second MONDAY LITERARY SEMINAR of term.   DR ANDREA BRADY will be giving a talk entitled ‘Conceptual Writing & Bondage’.   Venue: Humss 124, Whiteknights Campus.  5-6:30pm.   Chair: Dr Stephen Thomson  

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Beckett at Reading 2013

Celebrating the 25th Anniversary of the Beckett International Foundation 4-7 April 2013 For more information, please go to http://www.beckettfoundation.org.uk/events/

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Contemporary poetry discussion group is back!

  This Thursday (31 January), at the usual time of 5:15 pm in HumSS G57, Whiteknights Campus (please note change of venue from last term), we will be discussing the most recent finalists of the TS Eliot Prize, which was awarded earlier … Continue reading

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Literary Mondays return – all welcome

Dr Natalie Pollard, British Academy Research Fellow, writes:   Here is the Spring Term’s programme of MONDAY LITERARY SEMINARS.       The first seminar will take place this Monday (28th Jan) and the series runs weekly until the final Monday … Continue reading

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Poetry Competition

Antonia Sales, of the Reading University Women’s Campaign Society, writes:   Creative Writing Competition for International Women’s Day   On Friday 8th March, the Women’s Campaign Society are holding a fayre for International Women’s Day. In aid of this we … Continue reading

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A celebration of our poets

DEPARTMENTAL POETRY READING     To celebrate the publication of Conor Carville’s first collection, Harm’s Way, the appointment of Steven Matthews, and his first collection, Skying, and the sixtieth birthday of Peter Robinson and his most recent collection, The Returning … Continue reading

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Lewis Carroll’s Alice

  Monday 28th January: Archives and Texts seminar   Dr Kiera Vaclavik (Queen Mary University of London) Lewis Carroll’s Alice in the Archive All are welcome, and there will be refreshments! 5pm in Humss 125, Whiteknights Campus For further information, … Continue reading

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Christmas Lecture a great success

  The Children’s Christmas Lecture at the end of 2012 was a great success. Dr Neil Cocks contributed to the ‘Dickens in December’ theme with a creative exploration of The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Work produced by the children attending … Continue reading

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Academic placements – the way ahead

In the Department of English Literature we have been working hard, as have so many of our colleagues across the university, to make the most of the intellectual, personal and career advantages that placement learning can offer our students. We … Continue reading

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Peter Robinson at sixty

  Cindy Becker writes: Head of Department Peter Robinson’s many and various contributions to contemporary poetry are celebrated in the latest issue of the Sheffield-based Blackbox Manifold. ‘Peter Robinson at Sixty’, edited by Adam Piette, contains a group of Peter’s … Continue reading

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