A talk by Edward Chamberlin, author of Come Back to Me My Language: Poetry and the West Indies, with a guest reading by Jamaican Laureate Lorna Goodison
- Date
- Thursday 26 September 2019, 18.30
- Location
- Alumni Room, School of English
Professor Edward Chamberlin, author of Come Back to Me My Language: Poetry and the West Indies, will give a talk followed by a question and answer session. There will also be a guest reading by Jamaican Laureate Lorna Goodison.
J. Edward Chamberlin is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto. His numerous publications also include : Ripe Was the Drowsy Hour: The Age of Oscar Wilde; Come; If This Is Your Land, Where Are Your Stories? Finding Common Ground; Horse: How the Horse Has Shaped Civilizations; Island: How Islands Transform the World; and The Banker and the Blackfoot: An Untold Story of Friendship, Trust and Broken Promises. He lives with his wife, the celebrated poet Lorna Goodison, in Halfmoon Bay, British Columbia.
Come Back To Me My Language: Poetry and the West Indies has just been re-published (with a new Afterword) by Peepal Tree Press, 25 years after its first publication.
All welcome. Admission free.
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This event is a collaboration with Peepal Tree Press.