Miriam Allott Visiting Writers Series 2015: Forrest Gander and John Redmond
5:15pm - 7:30pm /
Tuesday 24th November 2015
Type: Lecture /
Category: Department
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- Admission: Free
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The Centre for New and International Writing presents:
Miriam Allott Writers Series
Forrest Gander and John Redmond
School of the Arts Library
Tuesday November 24, 2015 – 5:15 pm
Forrest Gander
Forrest Gander is an American poet, essayist, novelist, critic, and translator.
Born in the Mojave Desert, he grew up in Virginia and travelled intensively; he has degrees in geology, a subject referenced frequently in both his poems and essays, and in English literature. His work has been linked to ecopoetics, ecology, and intersubjectivity. A writer in multiple genres, Gander is noted for his many collaborations with other artists. He is a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow and the recipient of fellowships from the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, The Whiting Foundation, and the Howard Foundation. Currently, he is the Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literatures at Brown University in Rhode Island.
John Redmond
John Redmond was born in Dublin in 1967. After completing a D. Phil on the subject of contemporary poetry at Oxford, he taught for two years at Macalester College in Minnesota. Currently he is Reader in English and Creative Writing at the University of Liverpool. He reviews poetry widely and was associated with the poetry magazine, Thumbscrew. He has published a textbook How to Write a Poem (Oxford: Blackwell) and was the editor of James Liddy: Selected Poems (Dublin: Arlen House). His critical book Poetry and Privacy: Questioning Public Interpretations of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry was published by Seren and was one of the Guardian's best poetry books of 2013.
Places are limited so please register early to avoid disappointment.
Miriam Allott Writers Series
Forrest Gander and John Redmond
School of the Arts Library
Tuesday November 24, 2015 – 5:15 pm
Forrest Gander
Forrest Gander is an American poet, essayist, novelist, critic, and translator.
Born in the Mojave Desert, he grew up in Virginia and travelled intensively; he has degrees in geology, a subject referenced frequently in both his poems and essays, and in English literature. His work has been linked to ecopoetics, ecology, and intersubjectivity. A writer in multiple genres, Gander is noted for his many collaborations with other artists. He is a United States Artists Rockefeller Fellow and the recipient of fellowships from the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Arts, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, The Whiting Foundation, and the Howard Foundation. Currently, he is the Adele Kellenberg Seaver Professor of Literary Arts and Comparative Literatures at Brown University in Rhode Island.
John Redmond
John Redmond was born in Dublin in 1967. After completing a D. Phil on the subject of contemporary poetry at Oxford, he taught for two years at Macalester College in Minnesota. Currently he is Reader in English and Creative Writing at the University of Liverpool. He reviews poetry widely and was associated with the poetry magazine, Thumbscrew. He has published a textbook How to Write a Poem (Oxford: Blackwell) and was the editor of James Liddy: Selected Poems (Dublin: Arlen House). His critical book Poetry and Privacy: Questioning Public Interpretations of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry was published by Seren and was one of the Guardian's best poetry books of 2013.
Places are limited so please register early to avoid disappointment.