Year: 2016
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Poets House, Oxford poets lead open mic event at Woodstock Poetry Festival, 2.30pm, Town Hall, 12th November 2016
Margot Myers and Lucinda Kowol are two poets with growing reputations in Oxfordshire and further afield. They will lead the Poet’s House, Oxford open mic session at the Woodstock Poetry Festival with a short selection of poems that express their distinctive voices. Add your own voice to the Woodstock Poetry Festival by coming along to…
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Ten Poems exhibition and book launch, 1st November 2016
We’re half way through our huge Arts Council funded project – ‘Writing Mesopotamia 3’ with some terrific outcomes so far. As the project manager, I could never have predicted the challenges we’ve had to overcome but, interestingly, changes of venue and plans generally, though they didn’t improve my stress levels, have actually improved our events…
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‘The Tale of the Weaver’s Wife’ for a new Shakepeare Liturgy
I’ve written a specially commissioned poem, ‘The Tale of the Weaver’s Wife’ for a new Shakepeare Liturgy based on a Midsummer Night’s Dream which is among five poems based on characters in the play. The other contributing poets are Laurence Sail (Titania), Michael Symmons Roberts (Demetrius), Sinead Morrissey (Puck) and Micheal O’ Siadhail (Helena). The…
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‘Finding my Father in Mesopotamia’ featured in an Iraqi newspaper article
Thanks to Nadeem Al-Abdalla for sharing this post of a newspaper article about my talk -‘Finding my Father in Mesopotamia’ at the Anglo-Iraqi Studies Centre in London last month. I would like a translation so I can read it myself!
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‘Gilgamesh Retold’ featured on ‘And Other Poems’
Here is an extract from my new version of Gilgamesh Retold. Thanks to Josephone Corcoran for publishing it in And Other Poems: ‘Gilgamesh at the Edge of the World’ by Jenny Lewis
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SciPo 2016
Huge thanks to our distinguished panel of speakers/ poets, Tony Curtis, Lesley Saunders and Samir Guglani, and the enthusiastic poets and scientists who attended and helped to make our inaugural SciPo event (SciPo 2016) such a thrilling success. All expectations were exceeded and very healthy roots have been put down for future events. Thanks also…
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Student feedback on Alan Buckley’s Day School
I came away from the workshop feeling more strongly than ever that writing poetry is an important activity, and all our efforts, however approximate, are helping maintain a vital art form… Andrew Dixon Alan Buckley’s exemplary and inspirational Day School on Writing at Risk produced a huge response from participants… ‘You asked for feedback…
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Speaking at the Anglo-Iraqi Studies Centre on Saturday 20 May
I was invited to give my presentation “Finding my Father in Mesopotamia’ at the Anglo-Iraqi Studies Centre on Saturday 20 May. Nadeem al-Abdalla, the Centre Manager, has collected together over 3,000 books written in English about Mesopotamia, including by General Townsend who is mentioned in my presentation, Gertrude Bell – and many books on poetry,…
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‘Finding my Father in Mesopotamia’ talk at the Anglo-Iraqi Studies Centre
Jenny has been invited to give a talk and presentation about her Mesopotamia research and work at the Anglo-Iraqi Studies Centre on Saturday 21st May at 6.00pm. Nadeem al-Abdalla, Manager of the Centre, will translate her talk into Arabic for the audience. As featured on the Carcanet books website: http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?m=1103529991536&ca=bac52d38-09e3-4522-9083-d786c6d7106c
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Winner of Public Engagement Award at Goldsmiths
Jenny wins the Inaugural Warden’s Annual Public Engagement Award at Goldsmiths ‘Writing Mesopotamia’ is a collaboration between British poet Jenny Lewis and Iraqi poet Adnan al-Sayegh that sprang from a shared passion for Mesopotamian literature, especially the Epic of Gilgamesh. The partnership has led to a huge range of new creative work and activities with…