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.
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.
Students exercised by decolonisation show us a new way of opening out English studies Elleke Boehmer This piece was first published in the Times Higher Education supplement, 2 May 2019, pp. 42–3.Read More…
Elleke Boehmer’s Postcolonial Poetics: A Book at Lunchtime seminar A Book at Lunchtime seminar with Elleke Boehmer, author of Postcolonial Poetics, joined by Dr Malachi McIntosh, Professor Ben Morgan, Professor Richard Drayton andRead More…
Why Reni-Eddo Lodge is inspiring me to keep talking about race Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, January 2019 Something special happened in Oxford on a warm day in June 2018. Reni Eddo-Lodge was inRead More…
Great Writers Inspire at Home: Reni Eddo-Lodge in conversation with Rebecca Surender Reni Eddo-Lodge (author of Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race and winner of the Jhalak PrizeRead More…
Writers Make Worlds poster display 2018 Displayed in the foyer of the Faculty of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, MT 2018 and HT 2019.
Something sets us looking for a place.
For many minutes every day we lose
ourselves to somewhere else. …
On 26 April 2018, Linton Kwesi Johnson read from a selection of his poetry and discussed with Professor Paul Gilroy the inter-generational and transatlantic relationships that had nurtured it.
Elleke Boehmer introduces the Postcolonial Writers Make Worlds research project.