Kieron Winn & Saskia Hamilton, 10/5

Monday, October 5th at 7 p.m.:

KIERON WINN and SASKIA HAMILTON

“There lives the dearest freshness deep down things…”

Reading and discussion

KIERON WINN was educated at Tonbridge School, where he later briefly taught, and at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was awarded a doctorate for a thesis on Herbert Read and T. S. Eliot. His poems have appeared in magazines including Agenda, The Dark Horse, The London Magazine, Oxford Magazine, Oxford Poetry, Poetry Review, The Rialto and The Spectator, and in a short film about his work on BBC1. A selection of his poems appears in the Carcanet anthology Oxford Poets 2007. He was awarded the University of Oxford’s English Poem on a Sacred Subject Prize in 2007. He lives in Oxford, where he is a freelance teacher.

SASKIA HAMILTON is the author of two books of poetry, As for Dream (2001) and Divide These (2005). She is also the editor of The Letters of Robert Lowell (2005) and a co-editor of Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell (2008). The recipient of a Bunting Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Saskia Hamilton teaches at Barnard College, Columbia University, and lives in New York City.

Moderator: Christopher Ricks, the William M. and Sara B. Warren Professor of the Humanities at Boston University. He was elected Professor of Poetry at Oxford in 2004, and is known both for his critical studies and for his editorial work. At present he is undertaking a full critical edition of T.S. Eliot’s Complete Poems to be published by Faber & Faber.

7:00 PM
Barrister’s Hall
Boston University School of Law
765 Commonwealth Avenue, 1st floor

Free and open to the public | Reception to follow

Co-sponsored by the European Commission Delegation in Washington, DC, the Institute for Human Sciences, the Center for International Relations at Boston University, the literary journal AGNI, the American Literary Translators Association (ALTA), and Zephyr Press