{"id":25,"date":"2018-12-14T09:04:22","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T13:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/remembering-the-middle-ages\/?page_id=25"},"modified":"2019-04-04T11:37:01","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T15:37:01","slug":"featured-poets","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/remembering-the-middle-ages\/featured-poets\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Poets"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are delighted to open the conference with a poetry reading featuring two contemporary poets who engage with the medieval past in their art, Vahni Capildeo<\/a> and Ian Duhig<\/a>. The event, which will take place at 6 p.m. on Friday, 5 April, 2019, is free, but ticketed, and open to the public.<\/p>\n

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Having been a Rhodes scholar in translation theory and Old Norse, much of Vahni Capildeo’s poetry responds to medieval texts and themes. Their collection, Utter <\/em><\/a>(Peepal Tree Press, 2013), includes responses to the Old English poems ‘Wulf and Eadwacer’ and ‘The Wife’s Lament’. Their Measures of Expatriation<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Carcanet, 2016)\u00a0received the Forward Prize for Best Collection in 2016.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Ian Duhig is the award-winning author of several poetry collections, including his 2007\u00a0The Speed of Dark<\/em><\/a> (Picador), which features his reworking of\u00a0 the medieval allegory,\u00a0Le Roman de Fauvel.\u00a0<\/em>Ian has\u00a0 won the National Poetry Competition twice, as well as the Forward Tolman Cunard Best Single Poem Prize. His most recent collection is The Blind Roadmaker<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Picador, 2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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