Centre for Poetry and Poetics, Sheffield presents: J. T. Welsch & Ansgar Allen

7th of March, 6.30pm, Diamond, LT5.

J. T. Welsch & Ansgar Allen
J. T. Welsch & Ansgar Allen

JT is the author of several books of poetry, including The Ruin (Annexe, 2015), Hell Creek Anthology (Sidekick, 2015), Waterloo (Like This Press, 2012) and Orchids (Salt, 2010). His monograph The Selling and Self-Regulation of Contemporary Poetry was published by Anthem in 2020, and a poetry anthology Wretched Strangers: Borders Movement Homes , co-edited with Ágnes Lehóczky, by Boiler House Press in 2018. He has also published articles and chapters on twentieth-century American poets, including William Carlos Williams, T. S. Eliot, John Berryman, and Elizabeth Bishop, with a focus on poets’ essays, letters, and manifestos. JT is director of the Centre for Modern Studies at York, co-director of Thin Ice Press, and co-ordinates the Writers at York event series.

Ansgar is the author of books including a short history of Cynicism (2020, MIT Press), and the novels, Black Vellum (2023, Schism Press), Plague Theatre (2022, Equus Press), The Wake and the Manuscript (2022, Anti-Oedipus Press), and The Sick List (2021, Boiler House Press). He is editor at Erratum Press, and co-founded Risking Education, an imprint of Punctum Books. He is based in Sheffield, UK.

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