Tag Archives: Professor Peter Robinson

Reading Italy

Posted on February 2, 2014 by Cindy

Professor Peter Robinson has translated work by some of Italy’s most important twentieth-century poets. He talks about this experience in ReadingItaly: www.readingitaly.wordpress.com    

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Professor publishes prison poem to mark National Poetry Day

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Cindy

Professor Peter Robinson composed ‘Time for Time’ after visiting Reading Prison last year. Reading publisher Two Rivers Press, with which Peter is connected, has also published The Ballad of Reading Gaol recently. He had been invited to the prison to discuss poetry … Continue reading →

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Reading Poetry Festival and Reading in Secure Environments (RISE)

Posted on May 22, 2013 by Cindy

Reading Poetry Festival is delighted to be working with The Reader Organization as one of its literature festival partners in the RISE programme of events. RISE is an important year long pilot project funded by the Arts Council that brings contemporary writers to both public … Continue reading →

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Reading Poetry Festival 2013

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Cindy

5-9 June 2013  We are pleased to be able to welcome everyone to a five-day celebration of poetry, performance and the printed word! Events are open to all: families & children, creative writers, students, artists & academics. Listen to leading international … Continue reading →

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Vampiric Literary Monday

Posted on March 16, 2013 by Cindy

FROM NECROPHILIA TO TECHNOPHILIA: The Vampiric Imagination on Film Kevin Jackson’s illustrated talk on Monday 18 March 5pm HumSS 125, Whiteknights Campus rounds off this term’s series of Modern Studies Seminars Come and celebrate the last week of term and enjoy … Continue reading →

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Guardian Poem of the Week: ‘Otterspool Prom’ by Peter Robinson

Posted on February 19, 2013 by Cindy

Carol Rumen of the Guardian writes about… Poem of the week: Otterspool Prom by Peter Robinson Robinson’s sonnet to Britain’s early spring sunshine, with kites flying over the river M This week’s poem, “Otterspool Prom,” is a sonnet by Peter … Continue reading →

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Poetry reading: all welcome

Posted on February 15, 2013 by Cindy

Join us in the early evening on Thursday 14 March 2013, for a contemporary poetry reading & a glass of wine. The esteemed poets Elaine Randell and Laurie Duggan are visiting the English Literature Department to treat us to a … Continue reading →

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Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Conference, May 2013

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Cindy

  ‘Shifting Territories: Modern and Contemporary Poetics of Place’ This postgraduate and early career researcher conference is being organised by Reading and Oxford Brookes University in association with the Institute of English Studies, British Academy Literature Week and the Royal … Continue reading →

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Poetry Competition

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Cindy

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

Posted on January 25, 2013 by Cindy

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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