StAnza 24:

Jason Allen-Paisant presents the John Masefield Lecture

Saturday 9 March 2024

1.00pm – 1.50pm | Byre: ABP Auditorium | Pay What You Can £20.00 / £15.00 / £10.00 / £5.00

Winner of both the 2023 T. S. Eliot and Forward Prizes for his second collection, Self-Portrait as Othello (Carcanet, 2023), poet and scholar Jason Allen-Paisant presents this year’s specially commissioned lecture. As the war in Gaza continues, as the scale of the violence and suffering surpasses our understanding, Allen-Paisant considers how poetry, in its formalising of grief and its deployment in funerary rites, can bring us closer to the truth, to bringing the incomprehensible into a shape we can begin to understand. Don’t miss this powerful exploration of one of poetry’s most fundamental social and political functions.

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