Pulp frontman and cultural man about town Jarvis Cocker will be reading from his song lyrics on Wednesday 22 February, at 7pm, at the Lady Mitchell Hall, West Road, Cambridge. Entry is free, with no tickets required. There will also be a Q & A. The event is one of a series in a Cambridge University project examining the links between music lyrics and poetry, and is organised by Australian poet  John Kinsella. Prof Kinsella, also a novelist and critic, said: “I’ve always felt that poetry lives in many spaces and I’m not that interested in boundaries other than crossing them. Right from my childhood, musicians have always affected my thinking about poetry - music and poetry are inseparable for me - so I thought it would be a great opportunity to allow people to investigate these connections.”

Kinsella was recently nominated for the TS Eliot prize shortlist, but withdrew, with Alice Oswald,  in a protest about the prize's backers, a hedge fund.  

Faber recently appointed Cocker as editor-at-large, and  published a selection of his song lyrics, Mother, Brother, Lover. Map