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Tag: Pat Lowther

  • World Poetry Day 2026: Lowther, Atwood, Carson and Classical Mythology

    I read Erin Shields‘s Ransacking Troy in one great gulp this morning, and it’s a bracing way to start the day. As in her previous work, Shields’s play is reconsidering familiar stories from a feminist perspective in order to recuperate what has been lost or silenced. Her efforts extend from Greek mythology to the present,…

  • Kitchen Murders: Domestication of Violence in Women’s Writing

    Several strands of my professional life collided yesterday. I’m trying to complete an email–just an email!–to participants for a Zoom webinar that commemorates Pat Lowther’s brilliant poetic legacy. A heavy cold has been hampering me, but I’ll finish it and get it out today. Except that the Lowther project, for July, reminded me that I…

  • Sunday Research (with a Chance of Teaching)

    Last night I dreamt I went to an academic conference again. And unlike the gothic pile that is Manderley, haunted by the charismatic first wife, the titular Rebecca, there was no food and no sex. So pretty much a standard academic conference. But in my dream, I was in charge of food and drink, but…