Poetry at Pembroke: Roz Kaveney
PAST EVENT | 19 October 2017 18:00 - 19 October 2017 18:45
'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 every Thursday evening at 6pm between 19th October - 30th November. Check our events page for further listings. To find out more please contact Peter King.
About the Poet
Roz Kaveney grew up in London and Wakefield, and always intended to be a poet. She tried to start a career in writing as a teenager and at university, but decided she wasn't ready — she spent years transitioning, and working in television, the civil service, gravel prospecting, the catering trade, and sex work, before settling down to a freelance career in publishing and reviewing. In her late 30s she wrote her first novel, Tiny Pieces of Skull, based on her experiences in Chicago in the late 1970s. It was much admired by other writers, such as the late Kathy Acker, but did not sell until 2015 when it won a Lambda.
By this time, Roz's career in activism had included being a founding member of Feminists Against Censorship, and a period as deputy chair of Liberty. She had written a number of books of criticism and cultural commentary, of which the best-known is probably Reading the Vampire Slayer. She returned to fiction with the award-shortlisted Rhapsody of Blood fantasy sequence, and in 2009 returned to poetry. Her first collection, Dialectic of the Flesh, was nominated for a Lambda, and it and her second collection, What If What's Imagined Were All True, were highly praised by reviewers. Waking Into Dream is her third collection, containing poems about love, sex, death, fame, art, and story
Image by Steve Johnson (Courtesy Creative Commons)
Poetry at Pembroke: Roz Kaveney
PAST EVENT | 19 October 2017 18:00 - 19 October 2017 18:45
'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 every Thursday evening at 6pm between 19th October - 30th November. Check our events page for further listings. To find out more please contact Peter King.
About the Poet
Roz Kaveney grew up in London and Wakefield, and always intended to be a poet. She tried to start a career in writing as a teenager and at university, but decided she wasn't ready — she spent years transitioning, and working in television, the civil service, gravel prospecting, the catering trade, and sex work, before settling down to a freelance career in publishing and reviewing. In her late 30s she wrote her first novel, Tiny Pieces of Skull, based on her experiences in Chicago in the late 1970s. It was much admired by other writers, such as the late Kathy Acker, but did not sell until 2015 when it won a Lambda.
By this time, Roz's career in activism had included being a founding member of Feminists Against Censorship, and a period as deputy chair of Liberty. She had written a number of books of criticism and cultural commentary, of which the best-known is probably Reading the Vampire Slayer. She returned to fiction with the award-shortlisted Rhapsody of Blood fantasy sequence, and in 2009 returned to poetry. Her first collection, Dialectic of the Flesh, was nominated for a Lambda, and it and her second collection, What If What's Imagined Were All True, were highly praised by reviewers. Waking Into Dream is her third collection, containing poems about love, sex, death, fame, art, and story
Image by Steve Johnson (Courtesy Creative Commons)