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SUMMARY:Wild Court Reading Series Presents Kimberly Johnson
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the fourth event in the Wild Court Reading Series. \n\n\n\nFor the event\, we welcome celebrated US-based poet\, translator and literary critic Kimberly Johnson\, reading and in conversation with Dr Hannah Crawforth\, Reader in Early Modern Literature at King’s College London.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKimberly Johnson is a poet\, translator\, and literary critic. Her work has appeared widely in publications including The New Yorker\, Poetry\, Ploughshares\, PMLA\, and Modern Philology. Recipient of grants and fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the Amy Lowell Trust\, and the Mellon Foundation\, Johnson holds an MA from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars\, an MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, and a PhD in Renaissance Literature from the University of California at Berkeley. Kimberly Johnson lives in Salt Lake City\, Utah. \n\n\n\nHannah Crawforth is Reader in Early Modern Literature at King’s College London\, where her research is primarily concerned with the under-examined political\, religious and literary implications of the history of the English language as it was studied in the Renaissance. She is also one of the four faculty members comprising the London Shakespeare Centre\, launched at King’s in 2009\, currently working on several collaborative projects.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held in the River Room\, located on the second floor of King’s Building\, King’s College London\, on the Strand. \n\n\n\nEntry is free\, but please reserve your tickets in advance below\, as space is limited.
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LOCATION:The River Room\, Second Floor\, King's Building - Strand Campus\, London\, WC2R 2LS\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Wild Court Reading Series Presents Sascha Akhtar
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the fifth event in the Wild Court Reading Series. \n\n\n\nFor this event\, we welcome the acclaimed Pakistan-born poet and ‘Professor of Magic’ Sascha Akhtar reading and in conversation with poet\, musician and King’s College London lecturer Anthony Joseph.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSascha A. Akhtar has crafted seven metaphysical poetry collections\, a short story collection Of Necessity And Wanting embracing social realism and a volume comprising a biography and first-time translations of Hijab Imtiazs’ little known manuscript Adab-E-Zareen (2023 Oxford University Press). Akhtar has received an Honorable Mention for the 2024 A.K. Ramanujan Prize for book translations from South Asian languages into English\, awarded by the Association for Asian Studies. Akhtar is a Poetry School tutor and lecturer at the University of Greenwich. She performs internationally\, some highlights include the Emirates Festival of Literature and Rotterdam Poetry Festival. Latest writings appear in Fugitives and Futurists\, Deleuzine\, Shuddhashar\, Rivista\, the Prototype Annual 4\, Cut-Purse (Tangerine Press)\, Of Myths and Mothers anthology and Lucy Writers Platform. Many (but not all) of her latest poetic works embrace many forms\, including the moving image eschewing the ‘book’ or the ‘page’. These works are often found in anthologies. Her debut collection The Grimoire of Grimalkin (2007) was reissued by Prototype in 2024. \n\n\n\nDr Anthony Joseph FRSL is an award-winning Trinidad-born poet\, novelist\, academic and musician. He is the author of five poetry collections and three novels. His 2022 collection Sonnets for Albert won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2022\, described by judges as ‘A luminous collection which celebrates humanity in all its contradictions and breathes new lifePoetry\, and shortlisted for the Forward Prize. Joseph’s 2018 novel Kitch was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize\, and the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award. As a musician\, he has released nine critically acclaimed albums\, and in 2020 received a Paul Hamblyn Foundation Composers Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Lecturer in Creative Writing and English at King’s College London. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held in the Pyramid Room\, located on Level 4 of King’s Building\, King’s College London\, on the Strand. \n\n\n\nEntry is free\, but please reserve your tickets in advance below as space is limited.
URL:https://wildcourt.co.uk/event/wild-court-reading-series-presents-sascha-akhtar/
LOCATION:The Pyramid Room\, Room K4U.04 Level 4\, King's Building - Strand Campus\, London\, WC2R 2LS\, United Kingdom
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SUMMARY:Wild Court Reading Series Presents Stephen Watts
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the sixth event in the Wild Court Reading Series. \n\n\n\nFor this event\, we welcome aclaimed poet\, editor\, translator and activist Stephen Watts\, reading and in conversation with T.S. Eliot Prize-winning poet and King’s College London lecturer\, Anthony Joseph.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nStephen Watts’s most recent books are Journeys Across Breath: Poems 1975-2005 (Prototype Publishing 2022\, reprinted 2025) and Republic Of Dogs/Republic Of Birds (Prototype 2020\, reprinted 2025). A black and white\, 75-minute film The Republics was made by Huw Wahl from the latter. Stephen’s A Book Of Drawn Poems was published by Sylvia Editions in December 2025 and The Language Of It (Shearsman) and Explosion Of Words: Poems 2006-2026 (Prototype) are both forthcoming. He also edited Swirl Of Words/Swirl Of Worlds: Poems in 94 Languages Spoken Across Hackney (Peer Gallery\, 2022) and is much involved in the translation and co-translation of poetries as a vital language energy. \n\n\n\nDr Anthony Joseph FRSL is an award-winning Trinidad-born poet\, novelist\, academic and musician. He is the author of five poetry collections and three novels. His 2022 collection Sonnets for Albert won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2022. Joseph’s 2018 novel Kitch was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize\, and the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award. As a musician\, he has released nine critically acclaimed albums\, and in 2020 received a Paul Hamblyn Foundation Composers Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Lecturer in Creative Writing and English at King’s College London. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis event will be held in the Pyramid Room\, located on Level 4 of King’s Building\, King’s College London\, on the Strand. \n\n\n\nEntry is free\, but please reserve your tickets in advance below as space is limited.
URL:https://wildcourt.co.uk/event/wild-court-reading-series-presents-stephen-watts/
LOCATION:The Pyramid Room\, Room K4U.04 Level 4\, King's Building - Strand Campus\, London\, WC2R 2LS\, United Kingdom
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