Becoming Medium: Whitman, Circulation, and Care (Seminar, 20th January)

When: 20th January 2021, 17.30-19.00 GMTWhere: Online (Zoom)Tickets: Free; reserve your ticket via Eventbrite. This Inventions of the Text seminar thinks about Whitman’s career in terms of financial circulation and the money medium. Submitting the self of Leaves of Grass to the violence of exchange value, Whitman’s poetry articulates the contours of something like money’s...

What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in January 2021

This month's North East books newsletter is short and sweet. However, as we adapt to the new lockdown it's likely more events will be added to the calendar, so keep checking back. If you're putting on an event and you're based in the North East, please share with us so we can help promote. We're...

Inventions in Translation: Polyphony, Subjectivity, Temporality (13th January)

Join us for an evening of prose and poetry at our Inventions of the Text 2020-2021 series seminar, featuring Matthew Welton and Sam Riviere.

Najwan Darwish’s Embrace: Book Launch, Reading, and Discussion of Palestinian Poetry

When: 7th December, 19.30-20.30Where: Online (Zoom)Tickets: Free; register via Eventbrite. You are warmly invited to a forthcoming event organised by Durham University Centre for Poetry and Poetics and the Poetry Translation Centre, London. This is a book launch of Embrace, a selection of poems by Najwan Darwish, with translations by Atef Alshaer and Paul Batchelor....

What’s On: North East Literature and Book Events in December 2020

We hope that 2021 will see us back to enjoying literary talks and book discussions in person - but while 2020 is still with us here's our final newsletter rounding up what North East organisers are presenting online this month. If you're putting on an event and you're based in the North East, please share...