Camille Ralphs – poetry editor of the Times Literary Supplement – is in Nottingham to read from her first full collection, After You Were, I Am.

Here she recounts charged moments from history as they collide with our own godless modern world. The book’s three sections – rewritings of canonical prayers, dramatic monologues from the Pendle witch trials of 1612, and the divine tragedy of the Elizabethan magus John Dee – obsess over individual human characters and how our past informs (and informs on) our present. Ralphs draws upon a vast range of influences, from sacred texts and early modern drama to metaphysical wit, twentieth-century confessionalism and contemporary irony and mistrust.

Camille will be supported by six NTU Creative Writing students, all giving very short readings. Laura DeVivo is on the BA Creative Writing, Shalmika Sivakumar, Penny Harrison and Tim Buescher are on the MA Creative Writing, and Ramisha Rafique and Julie Gardner are studying for PhDs.

Refreshments included

This event is free to all NTU students and staff

In association with NTU Creative Writing Hub