poetry
Homer Today
Senate House, University of London Malet Street, LondonInterested in hearing about all the latest developments in research and interpretations of the Iliad and Odyssey? Martha Kearney will chair a panel of experts as they discuss their most recent findings and the current trends in reading Homer. A reception in the Hellenic and Roman Library will follow. Nicoletta Momigliano (Bristol University) will explore […]
Ioanna Karamanou, ‘The Reception of Prometheus in “Prometheus: The Play of a Day” by Nikephoros Vrettakos’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomThe Michaelmas Seminar Series, 'Classics and Poetry Now', is co-convened by the APGRD and Lorna Hardwick's Classics and Poetry Now Research Group.
Henry Stead, ‘Comrade Catullus: the translation practice of Jack Lindsay’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomThe Michaelmas Seminar Series, 'Classics and Poetry Now', is co-convened by the APGRD and Lorna Hardwick's Classics and Poetry Now Research Group.
Genevieve Liveley, ‘Reception Unboxed: Anne Carson and remediating the Classics’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomThe Michaelmas Seminar Series, 'Classics and Poetry Now', is co-convened by the APGRD and Lorna Hardwick's Classics and Poetry Now Research Group.
Excavating Roman Voices (Being Human)
London Mithraeum Bloomberg 12 Walbrook, LondonGain a new insight into Roman London at this evening of poetry inspired by the hidden voices present within the Bloomberg writing tablets, some of the earliest written documents found in Britain. Hosted at London Mithraeum Bloomberg SPACE where the tablets were discovered, Dr Josephine Balmer’s poetry will be performed by students from the University […]
Anne Carson’s ‘Eros the Bittersweet’ at Spike Island Studio
Spike Island Studio 133 Cumberland Road, Bristol, BS1 6UXLaura Jansen (Classics) and Rebecca Kosick (Bristol Poetry Institute) will be leading a discussion of Anne Carson’s oeuvre with poet Alice Oswald, Oxford Professor of Poetry. The event emerges in collaboration with Stockholm-based artist Meriç Algün’s current exhibition at Spike Island Studio, “Finding the Edge”, which engages intimately with Carson’s book Eros: The Bittersweet (1983).
Holly Ranger, ‘Sylvia Plath’s Classical Palimpsests’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomThe Michaelmas Seminar Series, 'Classics and Poetry Now', is co-convened by the APGRD and Lorna Hardwick's Classics and Poetry Now Research Group
Maria de Fatima Silva & Susana Marques, ‘Modern Portuguese Poets and the Greeks: a poetic theory’
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomThe Michaelmas Seminar Series, 'Classics and Poetry Now', is co-convened by the APGRD and Lorna Hardwick's Classics and Poetry Now Research Group.
Sex, Rage and Change: feminist adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses
OnlineA public conversation hosted by the Department of Classics, the University of the South (Sewanee) with Nina MacLaughlin (author of Wake Siren: Ovid Resung, 2019), Paisley Rekdal (Poet Laureate of Utah and author of Nightingale, 2019) and Prof. Stephanie McCarter (Professor of Classics, University of the South, Sewanee and translator of Ovid's Metamorphoses). Email Stephanie McCarter […]
Conference: Christopher Logue and the Classics 3/2/24
Classics Faculty, University of Oxford 66 St Giles', Oxford, United KingdomA one-day conference on Christopher Logue and the Classics, in the Classics Faculty at 66 St Giles, OX1 3LU; co-organised by Thomas Munro and Claire Barnes. Keynote speaker: Henry Power (Exeter). Speakers include: Claire Barnes (Oxford); Alexander Christensen (Oxford); Sarah Cullinan Herring (Oxford); Meg Dyson (Exeter); Francesca Kaminski-Jones (RHUL); Thomas Munro (Yale/UCL); Alex Silverman (Oxford).