Morag Morris Annual Poetry Lecture

When?

Thursday 4 October 2012, 18:00 to 19:00

Where?

Griffiths Lecture Theatre

Open to:

Public, Staff, Students

Admission price:

£5, £2 students and concessions

Tickets:

Tickets are available from the University Box Office: T: 01483 686876, E: boxoffice@surrey.ac.uk

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Bernard O’Donoghue was born in Cullen, County Cork, in 1945, later moving to Manchester. He is a poet and literary critic, and author of Seamus Heaney and the Language of Poetry (1995). His poetry collections are: Poaching Rights (1987); The Weakness (1991); Gunpowder (1995), winner of the 1995 Whitbread Poetry Award; Here Nor There (1999); and Outliving (2003). His work of verse translation, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, was published in 2006 and Selected Poems in 2008. Bernard O’Donoghue received a Cholmondeley Award in 2009. His most recent poetry collection Farmers Cross (2011) was shortlisted for the 2011 T. S. Eliot Prize. He previously gave the Poetry Lecture on The Love Poetry of W.B. Yeats in 2002.

Tea and coffee to be served after the event.