Month: May 2016
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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…
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