Title: She, Fugitive, Nebula Date & Time: Friday 10 July, 1pm -2pm Place: RJC Dance, The Mandela Centre, Chapeltown Rd, Leeds, LS7 3HY About the performance: 3 Acts, 2 Women, 1 Night. She, Fugitive, Nebula is an interdisciplinary solo choreopoem in three acts, emerging from Safiya Kamaria's doctoral project’s enquiry into Black Barbadian women’s embodied living histories. Through dance,...
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The Leeds Poetry Translation Lab: A Celebration
Join Chinese-English literary translator Austin Woerner, Cheney Creative Fellow Bai Hua and visiting poet Huang Shun, and Leeds MA student translators for a celebration of their contribution to Lines of Transport: The Chengdu-Leeds Poetry Exchange. An informal bilingual poetry reading will be followed by open discussion and mingling over tea and snacks. Language: a mixture of Chinese and English.
World Premiere Screening of The Seacroft Canto: A Documentary at Leeds Literature Festival
Simon Armitage Reading & Conversation
Poetry Manuscripts – Open House with Cultural Collections
The Caster Cultural Fellows in Poetry: A Reading and Celebration
Poetry's Environments: a Poetry@Leeds international conference
The conference programme is now live and available on the conference website. Associated events are open to the public.
Contemporary Visual Poetry Women Writing the Posthuman (Routledge, 2025) with Fiona Becket
Join Poetry@Leeds live online for a special event on visual poetry with Professor Fiona Becket, author of Contemporary Visual Poetry Women Writing the Posthuman (Routledge, 2025) Professor Becket will give visually rich talk focusing on the key arguments of her latest book and share her perspective on where visual poetry might be heading now. The...
Brotherton Prize Poetry Anthology Launch
Join us to celebrate the launch of The Brotherton Prize anthology (Carcanet) from the Brotherton Prize winner, Dillon Jaxx and shortlisted poets, introduced by Poet Laureate and Prof of Poetry, Simon Armitage. The prize is open to anyone in the world over the age of 18 who hasn't yet published a full collection of poems....
Towards a Wind Humanities
In this talk, Dr J. R. Carpenter and Dr Richard Carter will discuss their interdisciplinary practice-led research projects published in a special issue of Media + Environment co-edited by Maximilian Hepach, Ryan Bishop, J. R. Carpenter, Jussi Parikka, Birgit Schneider during the AHRC and DFG funded project Weather Reports: Wind as Model, Media, and Experience....