Md. Mahmudul Hasan provides a fascinating account of the traveller and iconoclast Atiya Fyzee.
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University of Portsmouth English Literature Resources in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter and Anti-racism
Following requests for suggested reading, and in response to our own sense of a need to keep educating ourselves, the staff and students of English Literature at Portsmouth have put together this reading list of informative works regarding ‘race’
Lockdown Poetry: Emily Dickinson
Paraic Finnerty’s Lockdown Poetry selection is Emily Dickinson’s ‘”Hope” is the thing with feathers.’
Life-Writing for Wellbeing
Dr Alison Habens, Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Portsmouth, has written a series of resources on the theory and practice of life-writing for wellbeing.
Lockdown Poetry: Langston Hughes
Elodie Rousselot’s ‘Lockdown Poetry’ selection is ‘Harlem’ by Langston Hughes.
Lockdown Reading: Tove Jansson
Diane Warren’s lockdown reading choice is a short story by Tove Jansson.
Lockdown Poetry: Charlotte Brontё
Jessica Dyson’s Lockdown Poetry selection is Charlotte Brontё’s ‘Parting.’
Lockdown Poetry: Thomas Hardy
Christopher Pittard’s Lockdown Poetry selection is Thomas Hardy’s ‘In Vision I Roamed.’
Thomas Fairfax, ‘Psalm 42’ (1650s): From Politics to Poetry
What does Thomas Fairfax’s translation of Psalm 42 have to do with the COVID-19 lockdown? Rosie Paice has some answers.
Lockdown Poetry: Joy Harjo
Ben Davies’ selection for our Lockdown Poetry series is Joy Harjo’s ‘Washing My Mother’s Body’