Event overview
Sharon Olds will be reading from her new sequence of poems Stag's Leap as part of the Richard Hoggart Lecture Series.
Please email m.macdconald@gold.ac.uk to reserve a place
Stag's Leap, Sharon Olds' stunningly poignant new sequence of poems, lays bare her divorce and the bones of lost love. In this intimate telling - which carries us through the seasons when her marriage was ending - Sharon Olds opens her heart to the reader, curious, brave and even generous toward the man who was her mate for thirty years and now loves another woman. Olds' propulsive poetic line and the magic of her imagery are as lively as ever.
Her unsparing approach to both pain and love makes this one of the finest, most powerful books of poetry Olds has yet given us.
'America's greatest living poet.' – The Guardian
Sharon Olds was born in San Francisco, and educated at Stanford and Columbia universities. Her first book, Satan Says (1980), received the inaugural San Francisco Poetry Center Award. Her second, The Dead and the Living, was both the Lamont Poetry Selection for 1983 and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Father was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in England, and The Unswept Room was a finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Olds teaches in the Graduate Creative Writing Program at New York University and is one of the founders of NYU's writing workshops for residents of Goldwater Hospital, and for veterans who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 24 Oct 2012 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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