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SUMMARY:Cambridge Poetry Festival Lightning Talks
LOCATION:Cambridge University: Anglia Ruskin University
DESCRIPTION:oin us for an afternoon of quickfire talks on a whole host of 
 poetry-related topics! The event will consist of a series of 10 minute pre
 sentations\, followed by questions and discussion. Speakers Prolific but U
 npublished by Hannah Chapman Hannah Chapman is a writer specialising in gr
 aphic narratives and critical biography. Her most recent essay “Casting 
 Mr Collins: Or How a Zombie Film Returned Us to the Novel\,” co-authored
  with Lauren Burke\, appeared in Austen after 200: New Reading Spaces (Pal
 grave\, 2022). Why ain’t poetry dead yet? by Dan Leighton By all rights\
 , poetry should have disappeared. We barely teach it in schools. It is see
 n as hard\, and difficult\, and inaccessible. Sales are\, essentially\, no
 n-existent. And yet\, it is having a new-form revival on social media plat
 forms. What does good poetry criticism look like? by Jon Stone Jon Stone i
 s a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Anglia Ruskin University and an
  editor at Sidekick Books. His poetry has previously won a Society of Auth
 ors Eric Gregory Award\, the Poetry London Prize (twice) and the Sarabande
  International Chapbook Prize. His latest book is Instar Hotel (Sarabande\
 , 2026). He has also published a monograph\, Dual Wield: The Interplay of 
 Poetry and Video Games (DeGruyter\, 2022). Francisco Javier Guerrero Cano 
 and the Poetry of Sickness by James Womack James Womack is a Cambridge-bas
 ed writer\, translator and educator. His poetry collections are Misprint (
 2012)\, On Trust: A Book of Lies (2017)\, Homunculus (2020) and Why Are Yo
 u Shouting? (2024).
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