Miriam Allott Visiting Writers Series 2016: Contemporary Poets Respond to Freud
5:15pm - 7:30pm /
Tuesday 23rd February 2016
/ Venue: 1st Floor Library, 19-23 Abercromby Square Abercromby SQ (West)
Type: Lecture /
Category: Department
- Filomena Saltao
- Suitable for: All students and staff
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The School of the Arts is delighted to present:
Contemporary Poets Respond to Freud, the first installment of the Miriam Allott Visiting Writer Public Event Series 2016.
With guest speakers Nuar Alsadir, Kathryn Maris and Josh Cohen.
Refreshments will be provided. Places are limited, so please register early to avoid disappointment.
Forty years after Germaine Greer and other feminists vilified Freud, two contemporary female poets reclaim him as their muse.
Nuar Alsadir, a poet and psychoanalyst based in New York City, considers the possibility that a poem can operate as an analytic session in which the poet is both the patient and the analyst.
Kathryn Maris, a poet originally from the US who now lives in London, uses Freudian language and theory to escape hyper-lyrical ‘poetic’ modes in favour of uncomfortable and clinical styles of writing.
The reading will be introduced and chaired by psychoanalyst and writer Josh Cohen, who will lead a Q&A focusing on the affinities between poetry and the unconscious, and the relationship between poetic inspiration and the receptivity associated with psychoanalytic listening.
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Nuar Alsadir is a poet, writer, and psychoanalyst. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Grand Street, Poetry London, and The Poetry Review; and a collection of her poems, More Shadow Than Bird, was published by Salt in 2012. She is fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and is on the faculty at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Kathryn Maris, a poet from New York who now lives in London, is the author of God Loves You (Seren, 2013) and The Book of Jobs (Four Way Books, 2006). Her poems have recently appeared in Granta, Poetry, The Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry London, The New Statesman, The Spectator and The Financial Times, as well as in many anthologies, including The Best British Poetry and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. She teaches for the Poetry School and the Arvon Foundation.
Josh Cohen is Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London and a psychoanalyst in private practice. He is the author of books and articles on modern literature, cultural theory and psychoanalysis, including How to Read Freud (Granta, 2005). His latest book is The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark (Granta, 2013).EventBrite Registration
Contemporary Poets Respond to Freud, the first installment of the Miriam Allott Visiting Writer Public Event Series 2016.
With guest speakers Nuar Alsadir, Kathryn Maris and Josh Cohen.
Refreshments will be provided. Places are limited, so please register early to avoid disappointment.
Forty years after Germaine Greer and other feminists vilified Freud, two contemporary female poets reclaim him as their muse.
Nuar Alsadir, a poet and psychoanalyst based in New York City, considers the possibility that a poem can operate as an analytic session in which the poet is both the patient and the analyst.
Kathryn Maris, a poet originally from the US who now lives in London, uses Freudian language and theory to escape hyper-lyrical ‘poetic’ modes in favour of uncomfortable and clinical styles of writing.
The reading will be introduced and chaired by psychoanalyst and writer Josh Cohen, who will lead a Q&A focusing on the affinities between poetry and the unconscious, and the relationship between poetic inspiration and the receptivity associated with psychoanalytic listening.
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Nuar Alsadir is a poet, writer, and psychoanalyst. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times Magazine, Slate, Grand Street, Poetry London, and The Poetry Review; and a collection of her poems, More Shadow Than Bird, was published by Salt in 2012. She is fellow of the New York Institute for the Humanities and is on the faculty at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Kathryn Maris, a poet from New York who now lives in London, is the author of God Loves You (Seren, 2013) and The Book of Jobs (Four Way Books, 2006). Her poems have recently appeared in Granta, Poetry, The Poetry Review, Ploughshares, Poetry London, The New Statesman, The Spectator and The Financial Times, as well as in many anthologies, including The Best British Poetry and The Pushcart Prize Anthology. She teaches for the Poetry School and the Arvon Foundation.
Josh Cohen is Professor of Modern Literary Theory at Goldsmiths, University of London and a psychoanalyst in private practice. He is the author of books and articles on modern literature, cultural theory and psychoanalysis, including How to Read Freud (Granta, 2005). His latest book is The Private Life: Why We Remain in the Dark (Granta, 2013).EventBrite Registration