News of the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre

• Amazing Acts
  Eleanor Lowe, Senior Lecturer in Drama, is reflecting on the success of the inaugural Oxford Brookes University festival , ‘Amazing Acts’, which ran at the Pegasus Theatre from 8-12 May. Eleanor says: “Amazing Acts was an invigorating week showcasing excellent, inspiring work from across the university.” Highlights included An Evening of New Writing with Philip Pullman, during which [...]
• Exhibition: ‘Poetry of Forms, Forms of Poetry’ Opening
  Two poets based at Oxford Brookes, Steven Matthews and Claire Cox, have written poems in response to photographs by a Brookes colleague, Sabine Chaouche. The opening of the exhibition is on Thursday 3 May from 12-1pm in the Tonge Building, Oxford Brookes University, Gipsy Lane, Headington, Oxford. The exhibition runs until 30 May.
• The Poetry Centre at the Science Bazaar and a poetry competition
  The Poetry Centre will be taking part in this year’s Science Bazaar, held at the Gipsy Lane campus of Oxford Brookes University in Headington, Oxford on Saturday 17th March from 11-4pm. You can find more details about the Bazaar here. The Centre will have a stall at the event with various activities designed [...]
• A poetry symposium: Sisters in Verse: Contemporary Women’s Poetry
  In association with Oxford Brookes University, the Poetry Centre, and Oxford University, and featuring a keynote panel discussion with poets Kate Clanchy, Jane Yeh and Sophie Mayer. Adrienne Rich once stated that ‘the connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force [...]
• Kate Clanchy is the new Oxford City Poet
  Oxford City Council and Oxford Brookes University’s Poetry Centre are working together with new City Poet Kate Clanchy to bring poetry to people in our community and inspire them to realise their own potential to compose poetry. Kate was born and brought up in Scotland, but has lived in Oxford for some [...]
• Dr Dinah Roe, author of The Rossettis in Wonderland: A Victorian Family History, discusses the relationship between the Rossetti family and the USA
  Those in the vicinity of Oxford are warmly invited to attend a talk at Oxford Brookes this Thursday December 8th by Dinah Roe entitled ‘The Rossettis and the U.S.A.: Special Relationship or American Gothic?’ Dr. Dinah Roe, Lecturer in Nineteenth Century Literature at Oxford Brookes, has recently published a book entitled The Rossettis in [...]
• Publication of See How I Land: an anthology of poetry arising from the Poetry Centre’s ‘Oxford Poets & Refugees project’
  See How I Land: Oxford Poets and Exiled Writers is the anthology of work arising from the Poetry Centre’s ‘Oxford Poets & Refugees project’, an initiative of the Poetry Centre and Oxford-based charity Asylum Welcome. It has brought 14 established poets together with 14 refugees and asylum seekers to work [...]