F. T. Prince Memorial Lecture 2024

About this event

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 Anthony Joseph to speak at this year's event, presenting his lecture: "Frequencies of Magic"

About the speaker

Dr Anthony Joseph F.R.S.L. is a poet, novelist, academic and musician. His 2022 collection Sonnets for Albert won the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry 2022 and the OCM BOCAS Prize for Caribbean Poetry. He is the author of five poetry collections and three novels. His 2018 novel Kitch: A Fictional Biography of a Calypso Icon was shortlisted for the Republic of Consciousness Prize, the Royal Society of Literature’s Encore Award and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Fiction. His most recent fiction publication is the novel The Frequency of Magic. In 2019, he was awarded a Jerwood Compton Poetry Fellowship. As a musician, he has released eight critically acclaimed albums, and in 2020 received a Paul Hamlyn Foundation Composers Award. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Lecturer in Creative Writing at Kings College, London. Precious and Impossible: Selected Poems, which collects 30 years of his work is out now from Bloomsbury Poetry.

About the F. T. Prince Lecture

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.

Event Information

Guests can join this event in person at Avenue Campus, University of Southampton, or online. Please select your ticket choice when booking.

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