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Launch of ‘The Land Between’
Sunday 1 December – launch of The Land Between – an anthology of poems by participants of the spring 2013 ‘Writing Mesopotamia’ workshops at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, to be held at the Ashmolean Museum and afterwards at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore. Led by Adnan al Sayegh and Jenny Lewis. The Land Between contains poems by 27 poets…
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Taking Mesopotamia- pre order now!
Carcanet have released the pre order option for my new book. You can see the cover and pre order here, although the book won’t be available until January/ Febuary 2014 www.carcanet.co.uk
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National Poetry Day- 3rd October 2013 at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
From Gilgamesh to Beowulf – 5,000 years of epic in five hours with poets Jane Draycott and Jenny Lewis From the 2,700 BC, Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh to the 800 AD, Anglo-Saxon Beowulf – trace the journey of epic and respond to its universal themes with your own poetry in these two creative writing workshops…
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Discussions for a new poetry and art collaboration for spring 2014
With Iraqi poet Adnan al Sayegh and Iraqi painter Suad al Attar in London, discussing a new poetry and art collaboration for spring 2014.
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Arabic and English reading for the Breadloaf Programme
On Monday 22, Adnan and I gave a reading and seminar to the Breadloaf Programme of students which is for adult learners (from the US) to gain an MA in Literature over five years. The course is held at Lincoln College. We read some of our poems in Arabic and English and then the students (all…
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Parallel Universe Competition
I’m judging the next Parallel Universe Competition at the Radcliffe Science Library – all members of Oxford University (past and present) are welcome to submit. http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/science/poetry-competition-2013
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Oxford Poets/ Carcanet Anthology 2013 Launch
Wonderful launch of the Oxford Poets/ Carcanet Anthology 2013 at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore – absolutely packed and terrific readings from David Attwooll, Leonie Rushforth and Karen McCarthy Woolf – plus David’s street band, Horns of Plenty, who played us in and set the atmosphere.
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Sculls and Scalpels- dark deeds and dark humour from award winning poet and crime novelist Valerie Laws
At the Albion Beatnik Bookstore, 5-7pm, Sunday 23 June Introduced by Jenny Lewis. Bring a poem to share after the interval. Tea, coffee and cake available from the cafe. Tickets £2 at the door. Valerie Laws’s poems of sex, death and pathology are both funny and moving and tackle taboo subjects with cutting-edge science and rich sensuality. Her latest…
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