Event overview
Award winning poet, Daljit Nagra will be reading from his work following his appointment as one of two artists in residence at the Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing.
Award winning poet, Daljit Nagra will be reading from his work following his appointment as one of two artists in residence at the Pinter Centre for Performance and Creative Writing.
The residency is part of the three-year AHRC-funded project 'Beyond the Linear Narrative', Daljit's reading marks the beginning of one year's work which will culminate in an event at our final conference in November 2011.
This is a free event and refreshments will be provided.
For more info: http://www.gold.ac.uk/pinter-centre
To book a place: b.pester@gold.ac.uk
About the Author
Daljit Nagra comes from a Punjabi background. He was born and raised in London then Sheffield. He has won several prestigious prizes for his poetry. In 2004, he won the Forward Prize for Best Individual Poem with Look We Have Coming to Dover! This was also the title of his first collection which was published by Faber & Faber in 2007. This won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and The South Bank Show Decibel Award.
Daljit is on the Board of the Poetry Book Society. He has judged the Samuel Johnson Award 2008, The Guardian First Book Prize 2008, The Foyles Young Poets Competition 2008, The National Poetry Competition 2009. He has also hosted the TS Eliot Poetry Readings 2009. He is a regular contributor to programmes on radio.
About the Project
The AHRC is funding a three-year research project which is being led by Professor Robert Gordon as Principal Investigator, Professor Helen Carr as Research Consultant, and Professor Blake Morrison and Dr Osita Okagbue as Co-Investigators. Research will be undertaken by a number of scholars and practitioners working in the departments of Drama and English and Comparative Literature, but there will be creative and critical input from a number of other disciplines. Taking Pinter's work as a starting point for, or symbol of, the fracturing of narrative across many art-forms in twentieth and twenty-first century work, this research project asks a series of questions about the links between inter-cultural and political change and the emergence, or re-emergence, of non-linear and fractured narrative. Focussing on literature and performance, particularly in postcolonial and diasporic contexts, it will ask why non-linear narrative has been such a feature of this period's artistic production. If these fractured and experimental forms are a response to the breakdown of the west's grand narratives of progress, what forms of resistance or revision do they provide? In what ways can they be seen to emerge from the increasing interaction of different cultures in the colonial, post-colonial and post-Cold War world? How do such fractured narratives work in postcolonial and diasporic writing and performance? How can these fractured forms explore our culturally diverse society's competing and conflicting narratives?
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 17 Nov 2010 | 5:00pm - 6:00pm |
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