Jan Kemp & Briar Wood
This event on 5th November 2013 at 19:30 has past.
Contact: www.nzstudies.com/event/poetry-reading-two-new-zealand-poets-oxford
Poetry Reading by Two New Zealand Poets in Oxford
A chance to hear poems from the latest collections of Jan Kemp and Briar Wood
Jan Kemp's latest publications are a bilingual edition (English/German) of Dantes Himmel (Dante's Heaven), translated by Dieter Riemenschneider; and Voicetracks (Puriri Press, NZ and Tranzlit, Kronberg im Taunus), both launched in October 2012 when New Zealand was guest country at the Frankfurt Bookfair.
Her work can be listened to on Poetry Archive. She has lived in Germany since 1994 with an 8-year break in New Zealand from 1999-2007 when Dante's Heaven was written. She now writes in both English and German. In the Queen's Birthday Honours 2005, she was awarded an MNZM for services to literature.
Briar Wood grew up in Mangere in Auckland, New Zealand. Her poetry and critical writing has been widely published. She worked as Senior Lecturer in English Literature, teaching Creative Writing and New Literatures at London Metropolitan University.
In 2001 she wrote poems for the Glorified Scales installation by Maureen Lander at Te Papa Whakahiku/The Auckland War Memorial Museum, which referred to their Nga Puhi whakapapa.
Her recent collection of poems Welcome Beltane (2012) focuses on how connections with location are experienced, especially in Cornwall. Forthcoming is Leeway, a collection of Briar's poems and photographs by artist Alexis Hunter journeys into experiences from contemporary London life.
Entry: Free
Time: 7:30pm
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