University of Kent

Lecture: Jessica L. Malay on 'Fleeing the Inner Temple: Spatial Strategies and Marital Abuse in Mary Hampson’s A Plain and Compendious Relation of the Case of Mrs. Mary Hampson'

19th November 6pm in KLT2

English Society is happy to be announcing a lecture from Jessica Malay, Renaissance Critic with several published works including Prophecy and Sibylline Imagery in the Renaissance: Shakespeare’s Sibyls and Textual Construction of Space in the Writing of Renaissance Women.
In 1684 Mary Hampson published a narrative of nearly two decades of marital abuse at the hands of her spouse Robert Hampson, A Plain and Compendious Relation of the Case of Mrs. Mary Hampson.  This lecture will explore the functions, and display the role of the spatial, in the marital disputes that plagued the Hampson marriage.

Marilyn Hacker

Colleagues and students are warmly invited to the presentation of this year's  T.S.Eliot Prize for Poetry, to be  awarded  by the distinguished poet and translator Marilyn Hacker  at 5 pm in Eliot S.C.R. on Wednesday September 30th. The award will be followed by a short reading, after which drinks will be served.

'Culture and the Canada-US Border'

International conference at the University of Kent, June 26th-28th 2009. For further details, visit the conference website.

T. S. Eliot Prize

This year's judge of the T. S. Eliot Poetry Prize, Richard Price, will be giving a reading of his poetry in Eliot Staff Common Room on Wednesday 21 May at 6 pm. At the end of the reading this year's winner of the Eliot Prize will be announced.

Richard Price is the author of two acclaimed collections: Lucky Day (shortlisted for both the Forward Prize for best first collection and for the Whitbread Poetry Prize) and Greenfields.

Tickets for the event (which will include light refreshments) are £5 (£2.50 for students). Bookings can be made by contacting the Communications and Development Office in the Registry.

Poetry Launch

Rutherford Poets will read a selection of poetry from their latest publication Stubborn Mule Orchestra by Luigi Marchini, Christopher Hobday and Gary Studley.

Monday, May 12th- 6.00 Rutherford Staff Common Room - Free.

'Much to enjoy, much to think about': a reading by Richard Price, poet.

Richard Price is this year's judge for the annual Eliot Poetry Prize. We are delighted that Richard has also agreed to give a reading of his own poetry. His poetry has been described as being in a class of its own and has included two volumes, Lucky Day and Greenfields which have both been short listed for major Prizes.

Wednesday 21st May - 7.30, Eliot Staff Common Room. Tickets £5 including light refreshments- 01227 827829

Diplomats, Agents, Adventurers and Spies 1500-1700 -

A Conference

The Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies (University of Kent) and the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters (QMUL) are pleased to co-sponsor a 3-day conference to be held at the University of Kent on 17-19th September 2008. We will invite speakers from across the disciplines to consider early modern agency and the transfer of knowledge between states, agents, travellers and spies in the period 1500-1700.