Centre for Poetry and Poetics, BacktoFront Autumn 2021 Readings Series No1: Readings by Angelina D’Roza, Adam Piette, Harriet Tarlo. Intro by A. Lehoczky. Event is planned to be livestreamed.
Angelina D'Roza lives in Sheffield. Her first collection, Envies the Birds, was published in 2016 by Longbarrow Press and was followed by her pamphlet, Correspondences, in 2019. A new collection is forthcoming from Longbarrow autumn 2022.
Adam Piette is Professor of Modern Literature at Sheffield. He is the co-editor of the international contemporary poetry journal Blackbox Manifold with Alex Houen. He is author of Remembering and the Sound of Words: Mallarmé, Proust, Joyce, Beckett, Imagination at War: British Fiction and Poetry, 1939-1945, and The Literary Cold War, 1945 to Vietnam. He edited the special issue of Translation and Literature on “Modernism and Translation”, The Salt Companion to Peter Robinson with Katy Price (2007) and The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth-Century British and American War Literature with Mark Rawlinson (2012). He has poems forthcoming in Stand, Adjacent Pineapple and elsewhere.
Harriet Tarlo is a poet and academic interested in landscape, ecology, environment and place. Her single author poetry publications are with Shearsman, Etruscan and Guillemot Books. Her academic essays appear in book collections and journals as diverse as Chicago Review; Sociologia Ruralis; Critical Survey; Classical Receptions; Jacket2 and Journal of Ecocriticism. She has collaborated and exhibited widely with the artist Judith Tucker and their artists’ books together are published with Wild Pansy Press. She is the editor of The Ground Aslant: An Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry (Shearsman, 2011), special features on ecopoetics for How2 and Plumwood Mountain and on Cross Multi Inter Trans - disciplinary practice for Green Letters. She is Professor of Ecopoetry and Poetics at Sheffield Hallam University.
Just a quick reminder for this event coming up on the 19th. We have now with generous IT colleagues’ help managed to set up a livestream version whih will run parallel the ‘real’ event. If you are not based in Sheffield or are house-bound otherwise and interested please register on: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/…/centre-for-poetry-and… Otherwise we would love to actually see you there in person if you are keen and if possible.