About this Event
Losing and Finding Oneself Through Queer Poetry
Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. – Jeanette Winterson
In this 2025 LGBT+ History Month lecture, Costa Poetry Prize winner Dr Mary Jean Chan explores the role of queer poetry in their own journey of becoming a poet, editor and lecturer of creative writing. Through close reading a range of poetry and prose by renowned queer poets within the Anglo-American canon including Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich and Mary Oliver, as well as contemporary poets such as Kei Miller and Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo, Chan traces a personal history of reading and writing queerly.
Doors will open at 5:45pm, with the lecture itself taking place from 6-7pm. A drinks reception will be held afterwards, with catering from Dasmascus Rose Kitchen.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Faculty of English, St. Cross Building, Oxford, United Kingdom
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