Miriam Allott Visiting Writers Series 2016: Launch Event Pavilion Poetry
5:15pm - 7:30pm /
Wednesday 20th April 2016
/ Venue: First Floor Library, 19-23 Abercromby Square Abercromby SQ (West)
Type: Lecture /
Category: Department
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EventBrite RegistrationThe School of the Arts is delighted to present:
Launch Event: Pavilion Poetry
The fourth installment of the Miriam Allott Visiting Writers Series 2016
Two exciting new voices in British Poetry:
Sarah Westcott and Ruby Robinson
Refreshments will be provided.
Places are limited, so please register early to avoid disappointment.
Drawing on the neuroscientific idea of 'internal gain', an internal volume control that helps us amplify and focus on quiet sounds in times of threat, danger or intense concentration, Ruby Robinson's brilliant debut introduces a poet whose work is governed by a scrupulous attention to the detail of the contemporary world. Moving and original, her poems invite us to listen carefully, and use ideas of hearing and listening to explore the legacies of trauma. Full of hope and liberation, the book celebrates the separateness and connectedness of human experience in relationships, and our capacity to embrace the possibilities for harm and love.
In her first full-length collection, Sarah Westcott immerses the human self in the natural world, giving voice to a remarkable range of flora and fauna so often silenced or unheard. Here, the voiceless speaks, laments and sings - from the fresh voice of a spring wood to a colony of bats or a grove of ancient sequoia trees. Unafraid of using scientific language and teamed with a clear eye, Westcott’s poems are drawn directly from the natural world, questioning ideas of the porosity of boundaries between the human and non-human and teeming with detail. A series of lyrical charms inspired by Anglo-Saxon texts draws on the specificity of the botanical and its spoken heritage, suggesting a relevance that resonates today. Westcott’s poems are alive to the beautiful in the commonplace and offer up a precise honouring of the wild, while retaining a deeply felt sense of connection with a planet in peril.
Launch Event: Pavilion Poetry
The fourth installment of the Miriam Allott Visiting Writers Series 2016
Two exciting new voices in British Poetry:
Sarah Westcott and Ruby Robinson
Refreshments will be provided.
Places are limited, so please register early to avoid disappointment.
Drawing on the neuroscientific idea of 'internal gain', an internal volume control that helps us amplify and focus on quiet sounds in times of threat, danger or intense concentration, Ruby Robinson's brilliant debut introduces a poet whose work is governed by a scrupulous attention to the detail of the contemporary world. Moving and original, her poems invite us to listen carefully, and use ideas of hearing and listening to explore the legacies of trauma. Full of hope and liberation, the book celebrates the separateness and connectedness of human experience in relationships, and our capacity to embrace the possibilities for harm and love.
In her first full-length collection, Sarah Westcott immerses the human self in the natural world, giving voice to a remarkable range of flora and fauna so often silenced or unheard. Here, the voiceless speaks, laments and sings - from the fresh voice of a spring wood to a colony of bats or a grove of ancient sequoia trees. Unafraid of using scientific language and teamed with a clear eye, Westcott’s poems are drawn directly from the natural world, questioning ideas of the porosity of boundaries between the human and non-human and teeming with detail. A series of lyrical charms inspired by Anglo-Saxon texts draws on the specificity of the botanical and its spoken heritage, suggesting a relevance that resonates today. Westcott’s poems are alive to the beautiful in the commonplace and offer up a precise honouring of the wild, while retaining a deeply felt sense of connection with a planet in peril.