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ASP at the Oxford Lit Festival: A Sense of Place David Downie and Patrick Gale

Bodleian Divinity School Broad St, oxford

British and American novelists Patrick Gale and David Downie discuss their writing and their approach to place and atmosphere in their works. Gale is one of Britain’s best-known writers including of A Perfectly Good Man, Notes From An Exhibition, the Costa shortlisted A Place Called Winter and Take Nothing With You. He lives in Cornwall and his novels often evoke […]

ASP at the Oxford Lit Festival: Saida Agostini Interviewed by Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Bodleian Divinity School Broad St, oxford

Afro-Guyanese poet Saida Agostini talks about the themes of her work including black womenhood, queerness, the legacy of colonisation, and pleasure, and reads some of her poems. Agostini’s first full poetry collection, Let the Dead In, was a finalist in the Center of African American Poetry and Poetics 2020 Book Prize and the New Issues Poetry […]

ASP at the Oxford Lit Festival: Women’s Work, Women’s Words Elizabeth Hazen and Marlene Hauser

Bodleian Divinity School Broad St, oxford

Novelist Marlene Hauser and poet Elizabeth Hazen talk about their latest works and about women and family, expectations and the challenges women face in an unequal world. Elizabeth Hazen is a poet, essayist, and teacher. A Maryland native, she came of age in a suburb of Washington, D.C. in the pre-internet, grunge-tinted 1990s, when women were […]