Event Archive
This is an archive of past events within the Department of English Studies. Please see our current events for forthcoming activities.
Some of our public events are recorded and are available as podcasts via our Research English At Durham blog.
Tom Pickard: Hoyoot: Collected Poems and Songs
A Durham Book Festival event, in association with the Centre for Poetry and Poetics.
The Newcastle-born poet and founder of the legendary Morden Tower poetry collective returns to the North East with this collection of poems and songs.
Tom Pickard is credited with rediscovering Basil Bunting and was part of a circle of influential poets that included Allen Ginsberg and Edward Dorn. His previous book, The Ballad of Jamie Allan, was a finalist for the 2007 National Book Critics’ Circle Award.
Introduced by Professor Stephen Regan
Contact office@newwritingnorth.com for more information about this event.
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Next Event
- 20th January 2021
- Sensory Experiments in Nineteenth-Century Literature
- Online (Zoom)
- Dr Erica Fretwell (University of Albany) and Dr Shannon Draucker (Siena College)