Our final meeting for Michaelmas 2017 - as well as our end-of-term party - will take place on Monday 27th November from 7.30-9pm in the Watson Gallery, Department of Earth Sciences.
We will be contemplating earthly poetics: mud as medium, metaphor, material. To prepare, please read as many poems from our muddy anthology as you'd like:
- Mary Borden, from ‘At the Somme: The Song of the Mud’ (1917)
- U A Fanthorpe, ‘Earthed’
- Seamus Heaney, ‘Digging’ (1966)
- Andrew Hudgins, ‘Child on the Marsh’ (1988)
- Curzio Malaparte, translated by Water Murch, ‘Xian of Eight Rivers’ (2012)
- Roger McGough, ‘Soil’
- Jana Prikryl, ‘Geodes of the Western Hemisphere’ (2016)
- Helen Saunders, ‘A Vision of Mud’ (1915)
- Robert William Service, ‘Mud’
- Joyce Sidman, ‘Into the Mud’ (2005)
- George Szirtes, ‘Soil’ (2000)
- Tess Taylor, ‘Mud Season’ (2016)
- Alison Townsend, ‘Mud poem’ (2002)
- John Vernon, ‘Mud Man’ (1982)
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