MICHAEL SYMMONS ROBERTS IN HAMBURG, DRESDEN, FRANKFURT The workshops and readings are sponsored by: INSTITUT FÜR ANGLISTIK UND AMERIKANISTIK Michael Symmons Roberts will be reading from his poetry and from his most recent work, Edgelands, in Dresden at 7.00 pm on the evening of October 26th. Literaturhaus Villa Augustin Antonstraße 1 € 4 /2,50 Linien 3, 6, 7, 8, 11 Haltestelle Albertplatz Michael Symmons Roberts October 26th 2011 19:00 Literaturhaus Villa Augustin Award-winning poet and author Michael Symmons Roberts will read from his work and discuss the aesthetics of the edgelands. To sign up for the workshop please contact: [email protected] `a masterpiece of its kind ... this is, quite simply, beautiful, but it is also typical of a beautifully conceived work of exploration, by two emissaries to the wilderness who do the wasteland proud.’ The Times Prof. Dr. Thomas Kühn (British Cultural Studies) Prof. Dr. Stefan Horlacher (English Literary Studies) For further information please contact: Felix Sprang / [email protected] Michael Symmons Roberts wird aus seinem Sachbuch Edgelands lesen und Lyrik vortragen. Passagen werden in Übersetzung vorgelesen, die Diskussion findet auf Deutsch statt. Diskutanten: Jörg Bernig (Dichter und Autor) Ruairí O'Brien (Architekt und Landschaftsgestalter) Poetry Workshop Michael will also be giving a poetry workshop at the Department of English and American Studies in the morning of October 27th (9:20–12:40) and you can apply to participate. You don’t have to be an experienced or published poet to take part. You can start from scratch here. This is a unique opportunity to work with an experienced mentor and practitioner and will give you a deeper understanding of the nuts and bolts of poetry. How to apply Please send in your registration by October 20th to Robert Troschitz at [email protected] Michael Symmons Roberts has won the Whitbread Poetry Award and has been shortlisted for the Griffin International Poetry Prize, the Forward Prize, and twice for the T.S. Eliot Prize. His work as a librettist with composer James MacMillan has included choral commissions, song cycles, music theatre works and operas for the Royal Opera House, Scottish Opera, Boston Lyric Opera and Welsh National Opera. Their WNO commission – ‘The Sacrifice’ – won the RPS Award for opera. His broadcast work includes ‘A Fearful Symmetry’ - for Radio 4 - which won the Sandford St Martin Prize, and ‘Last Words’ commissioned by Radio 4 to mark the first anniversary of 9/11. If there are more applicants than places, MA students will be registered first and BA students will be allotted places on a first come, first served basis. So sign up soon! His most recent book, Edgelands, written in collaboration with fellow poet Paul Farley, won the Jerwood Prize for nonfiction in 2010 and was broadcast as a BBC Book of the Week. Partners The workshop is being offered in cooperation with the British Council, supported by the Universities of Hamburg, Dresden and Frankfurt. Michael teaches poetry at the Manchester Writing School (Manchester Metropolitan University) and is currently programme leader for the MA in Creative Writing. The edgelands are those desire paths you make when you take a short cut across the grass, they’re the old warehouses waiting for what comes next, the burned out car-wrecks on waste ground, the vacant lots being reclaimed by bushes, trees and flowers. To find out more about Michael and Edgelands, have a look at the webpage for British Cultural Studies at the Department of English and American Studies or visit Michael Symmons Roberts’ homepage. ‘Two English poets "in the lyric tradition", both "edgelands comprehensive schoolchildren in the 1970s", they set out to explore and document this ruderal idyll, hoping to "do for the neglected edgelands what Coleridge and Wordsworth once did for mountains and lakes". Their co-written book instructs us to "marvel at this richly mysterious . . . region in our midst", and to celebrate it as a "place of possibility, mystery, beauty".’ The Guardian
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