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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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Found Poetry workshop at SDPF 19th July 2016
Ideas for poetry are all around us, from bus, train and air tickets (where was the journey to and from, what do the words on the ticket say about YOU?), to overheard scraps of conversation, quotes from the famous and infamous, favourite passages from books, messages on billboards, scrawled on walls or discreetly displayed in…
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SciPo 2016- June 11th
A meeting of science and poetry at St Hilda’s College, Oxford. Saturday 11th June 2016 With poets Tony Curtis, Samir Guglani, Lesley Saunders and Sarah Watkinson, introduced by Jenny Lewis of the Poet’s House, Oxford. Read a report of the day here: https://jennylewis.org.uk/2016/06/15/scipo-2016/ Where poetry meets science creative sparks fly, so come along and…
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The place for poetry: Filmpoem 2/3/16
GOLDSMITHS’ WRITERS CENTRE, THE POETRY SOCIETY AND FILMPOEM PRESENT – The place for poetry: Filmpoem 5.00pm 2nd March 2016 Goldsmiths, Room RHB137 (FREE event followed by drinks) Please email m.macdonald@gold.ac.uk to reserve a place As part of the ‘Place for Poetry’ Conference at Goldsmiths in May last year, the Film Poem Exhibition showed how film is…
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A blog post by fellow poet, Alison Brackenbury on the Halloween reading
Below is a wonderful account of the 31st October Halloween reading by fellow Carcanet poet, Alison Brackenbury, using my own photos. You can also read it on the Carcanet blog by clicking the link below. http://carcanetblog.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/haunted-by-poetry-by-alison-brackenbury.html I have been haunted all year by readings. Skies, my new Carcanet collection, is due out in 2016. So my own…
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Now as Then: Poetry for Peace, Ashmolean 17/10/15
Now as Then: Poetry for Peace Ashmolean Museum 17th October 2015 11am-12pm Join poets Jenny Lewis, Adnan al-Sayegh and contributors to The Land Between: 27 Poets Respond to Mesopotamia-Iraq anthology for a poetry reading amongst the museum’s Mesopotamia collection. The reading is to celebrate one of the world’s greatest civilisations and support a return to…
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Just what the doctor ordered! Poetry at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore 4th July
Here is the poster for the evening of poetry that will do you good. Please see below for full biographies of the poets. See you there! Sam Guglani is an oncologist and writer of short fiction and poetry. He completed the Oxford University MSt. in Creative Writing with distinction in 2014. X-Ray was one of…
