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Lunchtime poetry reading and discussion, with poets Cole Swensen and Peter Larkin, from 12-1 pm. Feel free to bring your bag lunch. Free and open to the public.

Cole Swensen is an American poet, translator, and editor. Author of more than ten poetry collections and as many translations of works from the French (her translation of Jean Frémon's Island of the Dead was awarded the 2004 PEN USA Award for Literary Translation), Swensen's recent collections include Ours: poems on the gardens of Andre Le Notre (2008) and Gravesend (2012). In 2006 Swensen was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. With David St. John, she edited American Hybrid: A Norton Anthology of New Poetry. <>

Peter Larkin’s three collections of poetry are Terrain Seed Scarcity, (2001), Leaves of Field (2006) and Lessways Least Scarce Among (2012). Give Forest Its Next Portent is due in 2014. He has contributed to The Ground Aslant: an Anthology of Radical Landscape Poetry (2011). Larkin's essay collection, Wordsworth and Coleridge: Promising Losses, appeared with Palgrave MacMillan in 2012. <>

Ecopoetics@ÌÇÐÄTV is a series held in conjunction with the EN 355 Ecopoetics workshop and supported by an Impact Grant from the ÌÇÐÄTV Humanities Research Centre. Lunch Poetry is an occasional series sponsored by the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies and the ÌÇÐÄTV Writing Programme.

For further information, write Jonathan Skinner: J.E.Skinner@warwick.ac.uk 

Title tbc. The speaker writes about dreams and the supernatural in Early Modern England. (Joint with Early Modern Seminar)

Sasha Handley (Manchester)

‘Love, Loss and the Female Lifecycle in Eighteenth-Century Britain: A Tale of Two Bed-Sheets’. 

Joint with Early Modern Seminar Series.  

Dr. Amy Davis

(University of Hull)

"From Snow White’s Prince to Wreck-It Ralph: Men in Disney’s Animated Features"

Professor Timothy Bewes, Brown University

Model factories, social improvement and voice in nineteenth-century France