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Poetry Reading at the University
Tony Lopez will give a poetry reading at the University of Kent's Canterbury campus on Tuesday 11 November.
The reading, which is free and open to all, will take place at 5.30pm in the Peter Brown Room, Missing Link, Darwin College. There is disabled access to Darwin College and the seminar room.
Tony Lopez is the author of over 20 books of poetry, fiction and criticism. He began his career as a freelance writer of short stories for newspapers and magazines. During the 1970s, he published five crime and science fiction novels.
He read literature at the University of Essex and gained a PhD from the University of Cambridge. During the 1980s, he completed a series of performance art events that were staged in Cambridge, Liverpool, Edinburgh, London and Amsterdam.
In 1990, he received a Blundell award from the Society of Authors for research on modern poetry and in 1996, he was awarded a Wingate Scholarship for creative work in poetry.
He is Professor of Poetry at the School of Humanities, University of Plymouth. His most recent volumes of poetry include Covers (2007) and False Memory (2004) which was a book of the year in the New Statesman and the Guardian's poetry book of the year.
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Story published at 10:07am 4 November 2008
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