The final event of the Centre for Poetry and Poetics’ Reading Series in academic year ‘20/21 with Lisa Robertson organised by Agnes Lehoczky and Adam Piette. Lisa Robertson will be reading from former and new work with short Q&As with A. Lehoczky and A. Piette.
About this event:
Free event with pre-registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/161299399847
Email, if any problems: a.lehoczky@sheffield.ac.uk
Lisa Robertson is a Canadian poet who works at the intersections of essay and verse, research and invention, the terrestrial and the utopian, the plastic arts and literature. Lisa Robertson’s books of poetry are 3 Summers (Coach House, 2016), Cinema of the Present (Coach House, 2014), The Weather (New Star, 2002), The Men (Book*hug, 2006), Lisa Robertson’s Magenta Soul Whip (Coach House, 2005). Nilling, a book of prose essays, appeared in 2012 with Book*hug. Her prose essays Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture were published in 2011 by Coach House, originally in 2003, Clear Cut). In 2020 her novel, The Baudelaire Fractal was published by Coach House, Toronto and was shortlisted for the Governor Generals Award for Literature in Canada, 2020. She lectures, performs and teaches across Europe, in Canada and in the USA, and lives in a small village in the Nouvelle Aquitaine region of France.