Lessons In Grief from the Lives & Deaths of Poets, with JT Welsch

About this event

In this talk, J. T. Welsch interweaves stories of poets who took their own lives with the long history of  his own family, searching for a new way of understanding these difficult deaths. Beginning with Hamlet’s ‘To be or not to be?’, he delves into the work of Dante, Sylvia Plath, Vladimir Mayakovsky and others, asking what it can teach us about their messy reality.

J. T. Welsch is a writer and academic born in the US and based in the UK, where he teaches
at the University of York. He is the author of several books of and about poetry, including Orchids and The Selling and Self- Regulation of Contemporary Poetry . He also edited the anthology of migrant poetry Wretched Strangers with Ágnes Lehóczky. His writing has appeared in Poetry Review, Boston Review and the Guardian.

Refreshments provided

In association with Manchester University Press