The MERL Autumn Speaker Series – Jack Thacker

The MERL - the Museum of English Rural Life Redlands Road, Reading, United Kingdom

Showing, Doing, Telling: Craft And Making A Season Of Events Exploring Craft And Making At The MERL Specialists in craft and the arts examine different ways of responding to rural life, exploring how best to nurture old skills, contemporary creative responses and traditional practice. This talk by Jack Thacker, the current poet-in-residence at the MERL, […]

Room to Rhyme: Poetry, Arts Policy and Crisis

Edith Morley 127 Whiteknights Campus, University of Reading, Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Afternoon Workshop Room to Rhyme is a British Academy funded research project investigating literature, crisis, arts policy and the public sphere, with special attention to poetry in Northern Ireland between 1968 and 1978. The first project workshop will take place at the University of Reading on the afternoon of 29th April 2107. The afternoon will […]