F.T. Prince Memorial Lecture - "An accumulation of the possible: on anthologising, reading and queer legacies and networks" with Andrew McMillan Event
- Time:
- 18:00 - 20:00
- Date:
- 10 October 2023
- Venue:
- Avenue Campus & Online
For more information regarding this event, please email fahevent@soton.ac.uk .
Event details
These lectures are given every year in honour of the poet and scholar F. T. Prince, who was one of Southampton's first English professors. Invited speakers explore new directions in literary studies, drawing on the English department's wide range of intellectual interests. Previous speakers have included Daljit Nagra, Christopher Ricks, Simon Gikandi, Tjawangwa Dema, Isobel Armstrong and Malika Booker.
You can watch the recording of Andrew McMillan’s lecture on the School of Humanities Youtube channel.
"An accumulation of the possible: on anthologising, reading and queer legacies and networks" with Andrew McMillan
The School of Humanities is pleased to invite you to the 11th annual F. T. Prince Memorial Lecture which will be given by the poet Andrew McMillan. This special event is a chance to hear one of the most important voices in modern poetry, and a pioneer for queer writing.
This event is co-organised by the English department and the Winchester Poetry Festival.
About the speaker
Andrew McMillan is Professor of Contemporary Writing at the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University and fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
His debut poetic collection physical won the Guardian First Book Prize in 2015, and was voted a top poetry book of the last 25 years by Booksellers Association. His second collection, playtime , won the inaugural Polari Prize, and was followed by pandemonium in 2021. 100 Queer Poems , the acclaimed anthology he edited with Mary Jean Chan, was published by Vintage in 2022.