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.
Festival Laureate
The Durham Book Festival Poet Laureate reads from his celebrated work, as well as sharing a new poem specially commissioned for the Festival.
This year’s festival laureate is the phenomenal poet, Raymond Antrobus, whose debut collection The Perseverance won the 2019 Ted Hughes Award and the Rathbone Folio Prize for best work of literature in any genre.
As part of his laureateship, Raymond will present a newly commissioned poem at the festival, as well as visiting local secondary schools and taking part in a special event for Durham University students.
Raymond Antrobus is the author of two pamphlets, Shapes & Disfigurements and To Sweeten Bitter. His first full-length collection, The Perseverance, is a book of loss, contested language and praise, where elegies for the poet’s father sit alongside meditations on the D/deaf experience.
This is just one of more than 80 events taking place during Durham Book Festival. Be sure to browse the full programme.
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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)