News of the Oxford Brookes Poetry Centre

• English and Drama students recently produced Rent, the rock musical with music and lyrics by Jonathan Larson.
  The musical, which is based on Giacomo Puccini’s opera La Bohème. tells the story of a group of impoverished young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New York’s Lower East Side in the thriving days of the … Continue reading →
• Brookes at the Oxford Literary Festival 2013
  The Department of English and Modern Languages will once again continue its close relationship with the Oxford Literary Festival, hosting another series of exciting and thought-provoking sessions. The festival runs from Saturday 16 to Sunday 24 March at venues across … Continue reading →
• Science Writes to Life
  In this project, poets and students associated with the Poetry Centre were given the opportunity to work alongside colleagues in Life Sciences, to learn about their research and teaching, and then to create new work of their own in response. … Continue reading →
• 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 … Continue reading →
• 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, … Continue reading →
• 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. … Continue reading →
• 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 … Continue reading →
• 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 … Continue reading →
• 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 … Continue reading →
• 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 … Continue reading →