Fleur Adcock & Rod Edmond
This event on 28th June 2013 at 18:00 has past.
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Book Launch of Glass Wings by Fleur Adcock and of Migrations by Rod Edmond
In Keynes Room at venue.
Refreshments provided
The New Zealand Studies Network (UK & Ireland) proudly hosts the launch of new books by Fleur Adcock & Professor Rod Edmond, both recently returned from tours promoting their books in NZ.
Fleur Adcock is the author of numerous books of poetry - three pamphlets with Bloodaxe: Below Loughrigg (1979), Hotspur (1986) and Meeting the Comet (1988), as well as her translations of medieval Latin lyrics, The Virgin & the Nightingale (1983). All her collections were then published by Oxford University Press until they shut down their poetry list in 1999, after which Bloodaxe published her collected poems Poems 1960-2000 (2000) followed ten years later by Dragon Talk (2010) and Glass Wings (2013), a Poetry Book Society recommendation. Recipient of a Cholmondeley Award in 1976 and a New Zealand National Book Award in 1984, she was awarded an OBE in 1996 and the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 2006.
Rod Edmond: Publications include: Affairs of the Hearth: Victorian Poetry and Domestic Narrative (Routledge, 1988); Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin (Cambridge UP, 1997), joint winner of the Trevor Reese Memorial Prize for Imperial History 1997-8; Islands in History and Representation, co-edited with Vanessa Smith (Routledge, 2003); Leprosy and Empire: A Medical and Cultural History (Cambridge UP, 2006). He has contributed essays to a number of edited books, including The Global Eighteenth Century (Johns Hopkins UP, 2003), Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire (Chicago UP, 2005), and Writing, Travel and Empire (I.B. Tauris, 2006). For a number of years he was co-general editor of the Routledge Research in Postcolonial Literatures series. Migrations: journeys in time and place (Bridget Williams Books, 2013) is about two of his Scottish forebears who migrated to New Zealand.
Entry: Free
Time: 6:00pm
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