Annual Poetry Lecture: J.H. Prynne on Edmund Blunden...
Monday 5 October 2009
In this year’s Morag Morris Poetry Lecture, the poet J. H. Prynne considers the special order of challenge in writing memoirs such as Undertones of War (by war-poet Edmund Blunden, 1928).
Presented by the English Department in association with the Arts Office and with readings by students from the Guildford School of Acting.
We must go over the ground again . . .
Undertones of War is Blunden’s account of his harrowing, self-imposed return to the scene of conflict; to remember, to go back over the same ground. Noting that aroused commentary and response to warlike operations is a strong current concern of poets nowadays, Prynne traces this modern form of writing backward, to the Civil War writings of Walt Whitman.
J.H. Prynne
J.H. Prynne is Britain’s leading late Modernist poet. His austere, playful poetry challenges our sense of the world, not by any direct address to the reader but by showing everything in a different light, enacting slips and changes of meaning through shifting language. His collected Poems, thirty years in the making, was first published in 1999 and immediately acclaimed as a landmark in modern poetry.
National Poetry Day
Thursday 8 October 2009
School of Management Lecture Theatre
Welcome Tea/Coffee: 6pm
Lecture & Readings: 6.30pm
Drinks Reception: 7.45pm
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