Poets unite for Japan

Wednesday, 13 April 2011

the Japanese flag

The poets Professor Peter Robinson and Dr Conor Carville of the University's Department of English Language and Literature have joined forces to organise a fund-raising reading for the victims of the Japanese earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accident. The event will take place in the Van Emden Theatre, HumSS Building, from 6.00 pm on Tuesday 3 May.

Professor Robinson lived and worked for fourteen years in Sendai, Japan, and Dr Carville is married to native of Tokyo. They will be joined by novelist Mavis Cheek who has been a creative writing fellow at the University, the Reading poet and Two Rivers Press editor John Froy, whose wife is also Japanese, the novelist Paul Vlitos, who also taught for some years in Sendai and Susan Utting who has also been a creative writing fellow in the University.

Proceeds from the event will go directly to a Red Cross Hospital or Children's Charity operating on the ground in North Eastern Japan. This event is open to all members of the University and the general public, and everyone is warmly welcome. The reading will be followed by a reception.