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SUMMARY:Film Poetry Screening & International Poetry Readings
LOCATION:Cambridge University: Anglia Ruskin University
DESCRIPTION:First Half We're thrilled to be showing a selection of film po
 ems With films by: Olive Mills Mimi Thompson Katherine Stockton Peter Whit
 tenberger Daisy Thurston-Gent Catching Shadows Emma Gant C. Moss Collectiv
 e Janet Lees Jo Gifford Second Half Readings by Athambile Masola\, and Ma 
 Yongbo and his co-translator\, Helen Pletts Athambile Masola Athambile Mas
 ola is a poet\, teacher and researcher who grew up in East London and curr
 ently teaches at the University of Cape Town. A Mandela Rhodes Scholar\, s
 he researches the literary careers of historically ignored black women wri
 ters and is the founder of Asinakuthula Collective. Her debut collection o
 f poems\, Ilifa\, was published in isiXhosa by uHlanga in 2021\, and subse
 quently won the HSS Award for Poetry in 2022. Ma Yongbo & Helen Pletts Ma 
 Yongbo has published over eighty original works and translations since 198
 6 including 9 poetry collections. Ma Yongbo’s complete Chinese translati
 on of Moby Dick has sold over 600\,000 copies. The Collected Poems of Ma Y
 ongbo (four volumes\, Eastern Publishing Centre\, 2024) comprising 1178 po
 ems\, celebrate 40 years of writing poetry. He teaches at Nanjing Universi
 ty of Science and Technology. Helen Pletts is the UK collaborative co-tran
 slator of Ma Yongbo\, her official Chinese translator. She is a committee 
 member of CB1 Poetry\, the established monthly poetry reading event in cen
 tral Cambridge UK\, which has organised poetry readings for many years. Be
 sides Chinese\, her work has been translated into Bangla\, Greek\, Vietnam
 ese\, Serbian\, Korean\, Arabic\, Italian\, Albanian\, Romanian and Spanis
 h.
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