25Jul/19
Kwame Dawes in Oxford
Kwame Dawes in Oxford Katherine Collins During Kwame Dawes’s residency in Oxford in 2018, he gave generously of his time and enthusiasm for poetry in a series of events. These included theRead More…
25Jul/19
The Poetic Arts of Africa: Creative and Critical Voices, with Kwame Dawes
On 27 November 2018, TORCH visiting professor and prize-winning poet Kwame Dawes spoke with JC Niala, Nana Aforiatta-Ayim, and Belinda Zhawi about a number of critical issues in contemporary African poetry and publishing.
19Jul/19
Close reading of Kwame Dawes’s ‘The Third Former’s Burden’ from Progeny of Air, by William Ghosh
A House for Mr Biswas has been canonized, as Harish Trivedi says, ‘as one of the greatest postcolonial novels in English’. […]
08Jul/19
Aida Edemariam: Learning to Listen
Aida Edemariam: Learning to Listen Aida Edemariam gave this talk on The Wife’s Tale at the Oxford Centre for Life Writing on 10 June 2019. Biographer Hermione Lee described the book as ‘anRead More…
08Jul/19
Aida Edemariam: Telling Wives’ and Grandmothers’ Tales
Aida Edemariam: Telling Wives’ and Grandmothers’ Tales Text by Elleke Boehmer Aida Edemariam is a writer, journalist and biographer of dual Ethiopian and Canadian heritage, who grew up in Addis Ababa, theRead More…
26Jun/19
The National Theatre brings the tangled story of Small Island vividly to the stage
The National Theatre production based on Andrea Levy’s unforgettable novel Small Island (April–August 2019) brings all the heart and angst of this tangled story vividly to the stage.
29May/19
Great Writers Inspire at Home: Derek Attridge’s The Experience of Poetry
Great Writers Inspire at Home: Derek Attridge’s The Experience of Poetry (2019) Books and writers’ biographies can differ widely, but the experience of reading bears many features in common that extend acrossRead More…
29May/19
Great Writers Inspire at Home: Sara Ahmed, ‘Closing the Door: Complaint as Diversity Work’
Great Writers Inspire at Home: Sara Ahmed, ‘Closing the Door: Complaint as Diversity Work’ Text by Katherine Collins Dr Sara Ahmed is a prolific feminist writer and an independent scholar whose workRead More…
23May/19
Staying Alive: Poetry and Crisis
In her podcast Staying Alive: Poetry and Crisis, Professor Adriana Jacobs invites eight contemporary poets to discuss how poets respond to crisis and the forms and language that they use to address it.
19May/19
The Responsibilities of the Author and the Archive: On the Award of the Bodley Medal to Sir Kazuo Ishiguro
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro knows how to command a room, even when that room is Oxford’s imposing Sheldonian Theatre brimming with an audience in attendance to celebrate his life and work.