Tuesday 2 March 2021, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm Free
Valzhyna Mort (photo: Tanya Kapitonava)
The Poetry Society and University of Liverpool have teamed up to present a series of three online lectures in 2021, and are delighted to announce that the acclaimed Belarusian poet
Valzhyna Mort will give the first lecture of the series.
Valzhyna Mort will talk on obsession, repetition, trauma and Belarusian traditional embroidery. The lecture will feature a live Q & A and Mort will read a selection of her poems, chosen to respond to the same themes.
The Poetry Society Annual Lecture given by Valzhyna Mort is the first of a series of lectures in 2021 presented by The Poetry Society in association with University of Liverpool (as the Kenneth Allott lectures), and will be published in