Poetry at Pembroke: Kólá Túbòsún: launch of Edwardsville by Heart
PAST EVENT | 07 November 2018 18:00
'Poetry at Pembroke', a series of poetry readings taking place throughout Michaelmas term!
The series has been organised by Peter King, Lecturer in Philosophy at Pembroke. Performances take place between 8th October - 28th November.
Kólá Túbòsún was born in 1981 in Ìbàdàn, Nigeria, and has worked for many years as a language scholar, linguist, travel writer, language teacher, lexicographer, and occasional editor of literary magazines and anthologies. He was educated at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (2012), where he also worked as a Fulbright Scholar, and at the University of Ìbàdàn (2005). In 2016 he was awarded the Ostana Special Prize for Literature, given annually to those with a significant history of work in indigenous-language advocacy and the revitalisation of threatened or endangered languages.
His work has appeared in AkéReview,Brittle Paper, International Literary Quarterly, KTravula.com, NTLitMag, and Sentinel Poetry, and in other books and journals around the world. His pamphlet Attempted
Speech & Other Fatherhood Poems was published by Saraba Magazine in September 2015. He writes in English and Yorùbá, and has also been translated into Korean. Edwardsville by Heart from Wisdom’s Bottom Press will be his first full collection of poetry.
Check our events page for further listings. To find out more please contact Peter King.
Poetry at Pembroke: Kólá Túbòsún: launch of Edwardsville by Heart
PAST EVENT | 07 November 2018 18:00
'Poetry at Pembroke', a series of poetry readings taking place throughout Michaelmas term!
The series has been organised by Peter King, Lecturer in Philosophy at Pembroke. Performances take place between 8th October - 28th November.
Kólá Túbòsún was born in 1981 in Ìbàdàn, Nigeria, and has worked for many years as a language scholar, linguist, travel writer, language teacher, lexicographer, and occasional editor of literary magazines and anthologies. He was educated at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (2012), where he also worked as a Fulbright Scholar, and at the University of Ìbàdàn (2005). In 2016 he was awarded the Ostana Special Prize for Literature, given annually to those with a significant history of work in indigenous-language advocacy and the revitalisation of threatened or endangered languages.
His work has appeared in AkéReview,Brittle Paper, International Literary Quarterly, KTravula.com, NTLitMag, and Sentinel Poetry, and in other books and journals around the world. His pamphlet Attempted
Speech & Other Fatherhood Poems was published by Saraba Magazine in September 2015. He writes in English and Yorùbá, and has also been translated into Korean. Edwardsville by Heart from Wisdom’s Bottom Press will be his first full collection of poetry.
Check our events page for further listings. To find out more please contact Peter King.