We’re pleased to announce the full ‘Cambridge Poetry Collection’ programme. All events are free, and everyone is welcome. Further posts relating to individual events will appear in due course.
Saturday 22 November
10.30–13.00
Workshop: Ekphrasis
With Vahni Capildeo, Preti Taneja
Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road: Vivien Stewart Room
Places are limited. To register, please email by 15 November: svpc2@cam.ac.uk
14.00–15.30
Reading: Poetry and the Garden
With Vahni Capildeo, Leo Mellor, John Regan
Murray Edwards College, Huntingdon Road: Fellows’ Drawing Room
Sunday 23rd November
17.00–18.30
Reading: Carcanet New Poetries
Including Janani Ambikapathy, Adam Crothers, Mina Gorji, Claudine Toutoungi, Rebecca Watts
St John’s College, St John’s Street: Lightfoot Room, Divinity School
19.30–21.00
Reading: Vahni Capildeo, John James, Redell Olsen
Gonville and Caius College, Trinity Street: Bateman Auditorium
Monday 24th November
17.00–18.30
Book launch: Clive Wilmer reads his sequence Urban Pastorals (Worple Press)
With a display of papers from the Clive Wilmer archive in the University Library
Cambridge University Library, West Road: Milstein Room
19.30–21.00
Reading: Mark Ford, Simon Jarvis, Rowan Williams
Gonville and Caius College, Trinity Street: Senior Parlour
Tuesday 25 November
17.00–18.30
Book launch: Mark Ford and John Lucas talk about the poet Nicholas Moore (1918–1986) and read from his new Selected Poems (Shoestring Press)
With a display of papers from the Nicholas Moore archive in the University Library
Cambridge University Library, West Road: Milstein Room
19.30–21.30
Reading: New Cambridge Poets
Including Jack Belloli, Gareth Farmer, Brendan Gillott, Charlotte Higgins, Irit Katz, Nineb Lamassu, Afrodita Nikolova, Catherine Olver, Stav Poleg, Cal Revely-Calder
Introduced by Richard Berengarten
Corpus Christi College, Trumpington Street: New Combination Room
Wednesday 26 November
17.00–18.30
Reading: Dan Burt, Anne Stevenson
Trinity College, Trinity Street: Old Combination Room
19.30–21.00
Reading: Sean Borodale, Elaine Feinstein, Angela Leighton
St John’s College, St John’s Street: Main Lecture Theatre, Divinity School
Thursday 27 November
17.00–18.30
Discussion: Global poetries: the work of the editor
With Sarah Howe, Eve Lacey, Preti Taneja
Gonville and Caius College, Trinity Street: Green Room
18.30–21.00 (readings and Q&A 19.00)
Magazine launch: Long Poem Magazine, issue 12
With editors: Linda Black, Lucy Hamilton
Readers: Timothy Adès, Richard Berengarten, Sophie Herxheimer, Patricia McCarthy, Ben Rogers
In association with the Fitzwilliam College Literary Society
Fitzwilliam College, Storey’s Way: Gordon Cameron Lecture Theatre
Friday 28 November
17.00–18.30
Reading: Vahni Capildeo, Ian Patterson, James Russell
Queens’ College, Silver Street: Erasmus Room
19.30–21.00
Reading: Equipage Poets: John James, Drew Milne, Ian Patterson, Luke Roberts, Geoff Ward, Carol Watts
Jesus College, Jesus Lane: Upper Hall
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