Monthly Archives: February 2019

Archives & Texts seminar Thursday 28th Feb.

Thursday 28th Feb, 5-6pm in Edith Morley, G44 Dr Will Davies (Reading) ‘“A Wedge from the North”: The Founding of Poetry Nation’. Dr Davies’ paper  will consider Poetry Nation, postwar journals and American and European postwar literary history.

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The DEL/MERL Seminar Series, 2019: Writing the Rural

All events take place on Thursdays in February and March, 1-2pm, at The Museum of English Rural Life, Reading. All welcome. THURSDAY 28 FEBRUARY, 12–1pm ‘Graceful clods: soil in eighteenth-century poetry’ Tess Somervell, (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Leeds). … Continue reading

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Poetry and Europe: A Celebration

However the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland leaves the European Union, if it does, on 29 March 2019, the long and deep-rooted connections between the poetic cultures of these islands and those of continental Europe will continue to be, and … Continue reading

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Chancellor’s Awards 2018

Congratulations to Chancellor’s Award winners Jasmine Davis (BA English Language and Literature) and Evelyn Hartnell (BA English Literature), who achieved the top results in their subject at the end of their first and second year, respectively. Jasmine writes: “Studying English … Continue reading

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