Launch – Tuesday June 16th 2015

MMU: Geoffrey Manton Building, Room 222
2.00-4.30pm

Guest Lecture: 

Professor Rainer Emig (University of Leibniz, Hannover), ‘W.H. Auden and the Problems of Public Poetry’

Dr Nikolai Duffy (Manchester Metropolitan University), ‘“Nohow”: Poetry, Privacy, and Local Communities’

Poetry reading: Judy Kendall (University of Salford)

The North West hosts a wealth of poets, and critics writing on poetry, including Carol Ann Duffy, Robert Sheppard, Deryn Rees-Jones, Scott Thurston, Paul Farley, John Redmond and Tony Sharpe. This network will invite scholars from the region to discuss their recent work. The focus will be on critical work with integrated creative readings, and we are particularly interested in postgraduate critics and young poets being involved in the future.

For queries, please contact: Professor Antony Rowland (a.rowland@mmu.ac.uk)