Events & Residencies

Wednesday, 12 December, 2007 (3.15pm)

Classics Department,
University of Durham

Presentation of poems from The Works and from current work in progress,
Chasing the Ivy,

This will be followed by a question and answer session.

Horace: Live and Kicking

Maureen Almond in conversation with Stephen Harrison, Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, University of Oxford.

at The Lit & Phil
23 Westgate Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, NE1 1SE

on Friday, 16 November, 2007 at 7pm

The event is free, but audiences are limited and admittance is by ticket only. To reserve tickets please call 0191 23 0192 (email: library@litandphil.org.uk) or collect in person from the Lit & Phil.

Horace is one of the real greats, whose poems are written with a brilliant density and clarity of composition, and whose variety of topic and tone can cover an extraordinary range of topics from religion and politics to sex and drinking.

Maureen has created story-worlds from her own experience which map on to the cultural worlds of the Roman originals. She will read poems from The Works (2004) which contains her versions of the Epodes of Horace and from her work in progress, Chasing the Ivy. based on Horace Odes, Book I.

Professor Stephen Harrison will give a commentary on Maureen’s versions and on their ‘fit’ with the original Horatian texts.

Hopefully those interested in poetry and in recent receptions of Horace will find this event stimulating and enjoyable; useful and pleasing.

During 2007 I was Poet-in-Residence at the Museum of Antiquities, University of Newcastle. The residency is now completed but I am working on a special commission for the Museum to write a collection of poems based on the artefacts in the Roman collection.

Any other readings or residencies will be notified in my Web Blog