The School of Humanities is pleased to invite you to the 12th annual F. T. Prince Memorial Lecture, which will take place on Tuesday 22 October 2024 at 18:00 on the University of Southampton’s Avenue Campus. We are delighted to welcome poet, novelist and musician, Anthony Joseph to speak at this year’s event, presenting his lecture: “Frequencies of Magic”.
In this lecture Anthony Joseph tracks the influence of 100 years of surrealism on his own development as a poet, novelist and musician. Starting with the Caribbean and moving towards the UK, where he moved to the late 1980s, Joseph shows how aspects of surrealism and surrealist practice are embedded within the Trinidad carnival, calypso arts and jazz, and how his own writing found allegiances with black surrealist writers such as Ted Joans, Sun Ra and Bob Kauffman while crafting a distinctly Caribbean surrealism. Joseph will share work from his newly published Precious and Impossible: Selected Poems (Bloomsbury, 2024).
This annual lecture series takes place in honour of the poet and scholar F. T. Prince, who was one of Southampton’s first English professors. Invited speakers explore new directions in literary studies, drawing on the English department’s wide range of intellectual interests.
This event is co-organised with the Winchester Poetry Festival.
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