Event overview
A Reading by Zaffar Kunial & Kathryn Maris
Zaffar Kunial was born in Birmingham and currently lives in Hebden Bridge. His mother was English and his father from Kashmir. He studied at the London School of Economics and later attended Michael Donaghy’s classes at City University. He has been a Wordsworth Trust Poet-in-Residence and won the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize for his poem ‘The Word’. His first collection, Us, was published by Faber and shortlisted for this year’s T. S. Eliot Prize. ‘The precise, thoughtful, unhurried way in which he interrogates language marks him out as a unique talent.’ (Scotsman). ‘The grit that originates and animates his calm and assured-seeming poems is identity.’ (Guardian)
Kathryn Maris is an American poet based in London. Her work has appeared in Penguin Modern Poets 5, The Pushcart Prize Anthology, The Best British Poetry, The Forward Book of Poetry, Granta and Poetry. Her third collection, The House With Only An Attic And A Basement, was published by Penguin last year. ‘Crisp, funny, lightly disturbing… Maris is a mistress of fragile structures. A wit informs her sometimes painful, mannered poems… An assured, precarious, sustaining collection.’ (Observer) ‘Deadpan humour and cool dissection of domestic dysfunction…Beyond the comedy of gender difference and power struggle, a stranger narrative emerges… playful, obsessive, irreverent.’ (TLS)
Free to attend, RSVP to english@gold.ac.uk
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 23 Jan 2019 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
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