Monthly Archives: October 2014

After Hours at the Pitt Rivers

Departmental poet Obby Robinson has been invited to read from his supernatural-themed poetry collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford on the 4th of December this year. Obby will be heading up an evening of art, poetry, performance and … Continue reading

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Neil Cocks has a new monograph

Neil Cocks writes: My most recent monograph has just been published by Palgrave. In this book I think through a problem that all of us working with literature grapple with at some time: the complexities that attend a reading of … Continue reading

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The opening reception for Beckett Week: a reminder

Conor Carville writes:   The opening reception for Beckett Week will take place in the Museum of English Rural Life from 5.00 to 7.00. this evening, Wednesday 1st October. Drinks will be served. Our exhibition ‘Beckett in London: The Murphy Notebooks’ … Continue reading

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Linnean Society talk by John Holmes

John Holmes writes: This lunchtime I will be giving a talk at the Linnean Society on how poets have responded to changing conceptions of the natural world, from when the eighteenth-century naturalist Carolus Linnaeus first devised an ordered system for … Continue reading

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