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A mention in the Telegraph…
An amazing, and surprising, mention of my Gilgamesh Retold by Tristram Fane-Saunders reviewing Simon Armitage’s Gilgamesh in the Telegraph yesterday – first a short paragraph then a summarising sentence at the end which calls my book ‘superb English poetry’. You can read it here: https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/2588/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/2588/pub/2588/page/140/article/NaN
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Seed Guardians, 2024- 2025
– working with the ground breaking, community action-based Mandala Theatre Company During 2024-2025 I worked with Oxford-based Mandala Theatre Company, a physical theatre touring company that explores themes of racial equality and social justice, founded and run by Yasmin Sidhwa. Yasmin’s play, Seed Guardians, touched on food poverty and global food sovereignty, and included music, dance sequences…
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From Base Materials – Reviews and critical acclaim
Review by Sheenagh Pugh https://sheenaghpugh.livejournal.com/171799.html Review by Liam Guilar https://www.liamguilar.com/enthusiasms/2025/5/15/jenny-lewis-from-base-materials-a-review-of-sorts Embodied Histories: Phenomenological Poetics in Jenny Lewis’s From Base Materials (2024) by Tayah Fraser– you can download the full essay here:
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Confluence Cafe Poetry for Peace event, 16 March 2024
2-5, Saturday 16 March, St Luke Church, Oxford OX1 4XBFree and all welcome, donations for those that can afford it to MAP(Medical Aid for Palestine) Trevor Mostyn read Arabic with Persian at Edinburgh University in 1973. He later taught English Literature at Algiers University then travelled throughout the Middle East as a publisher with Macmillan and…
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Another World is Waiting’ by poet Jenny Lewis and composer Janet Davey, performed by the artists, 7 March 2022
My friend Janet Davey wrote this beautiful short piano piece which inspired me to write some words. Majida Al-Sayegh has kindly made it into a video for us called ANOTHER WORLD IS WAITING. We would like to share it with you on this International Women’s Day. Here are the words: ‘Another World is Waiting’ The…
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StAnza Preview Blog 3: Modernism. Eco-poetry. ‘Soul-space’. Stories.
StAnza Preview Blog 3: Modernismxccc. Eco-poetry. ‘Soul-space’. Stories. Exploring some of StAnza 2022’s wide-ranging themes, Jenny Lewis looks at modernist takes and out-takes with Yang Lian and interviews Claire Crowther on two of her events – one looking at the modernist writer Veronica Forrest-Thompson and the second focusing on her uniquely personal take on ‘Alternative Environmental Narratives’.…
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StAnza Preview Blog 2: Annie Rutherford on ‘Translation’
For her second preview of the exciting and cutting edge 2022 StAnza Poetry Festival, 9-13 March, Jenny Lewis interviews Assistant Director Annie Rutherford on how and why translation plays such an important part in the programme. Annie Rutherford by Perry Jonsson JL: Hallo Annie, it’s lovely to be talking to you and congratulations on the festival.…
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StAnza Preview Blog: An Interview with Lucy Burnett
StAnza Preview Blog: An Interview with Lucy Burnett We’re excited to welcome Jenny Lewis to the Carcanet blog, who will be covering the 2022 StAnza Poetry Festival for us in the coming weeks! Jenny is writing weekly guest blogs for us in the lead up to the festival, and will be roaming the festival itself in March,…
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SciPo 2022: New Poetry for a New Year
Sudeep Sen, Jane Draycott & Sarah Watkinson Chaired by Jenny Lewis Introduced by Stephen Paul Wren Tuesday 18 January 2022 / 5.00-7.00pm Help see in a new year of hope and recovery with distinguished poet & photographer SUDEEP SEN reading from Anthropocene; plant scientist and poet SARAH WATKINSON reading from Photovoltaic; and T. S. Eliot…
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Launch of ‘A Field Guide to Wedding Guests’
NEW FROM POET’S HOUSE PAMPHLETS! A FIELD GUIDE TO WEDDING GUESTS by HELEN REID A Field Guide to Wedding Guests, by the wonderful Helen Reid was launched by Poets House Pamphlets at Modern Art Oxford on Tuesday 7 December to rapturous applause from one of the best, most engaged and appreciative audiences I can remember.…
