About this Event
Carrie Etter is a celebrated poet, anthologist and academic whose publications include Subterfuge of the Unrequitable: Potes & Poets Press, 1998, Yet: Leafe Press, 2008,The Tethers: Seren Books, 2009, The Son: Oystercatcher Press, 2009, Divining for Starters: Shearsman Books, 2011, Imagined Sons: Seren Books, 2014,The Weather in Normal: Seren Books (UK) and Station Hill Press (USA), 2018. Etter also edited the celebrated anthologyInfinite Difference: Other Poetries by UK Women Poets, Shearsman Books, 2010
Her most recent book, Grief's Alphabet (Seren, 2024) was described in The Guardian as "an impassioned reckoning with the aftermath of Etter’s adoptive parents’ deaths."
She won a 2010 London Award for Arts and Performance the London New Poetry Award for a best first collection published in the UK and Ireland in the preceding year, for The Tethers. In 2013 she received an Authors' Foundation grant from the Society of Authors for work on her third collection, Imagined Sons, which went on to be shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry by the Poetry Society.
This event is live, in-person in the university chapel. It is also watchable online. A zoom link for online attendance will be emailed to those who book a ticket.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
University Chapel, Glasgow University Memorial Chapel, Glasgow, United Kingdom
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