John Clare expert Professor Simon Kovesi is Langdyke’s next online guest .
It is particularly appropriate for Simon (pictured, above) to be the speaker on Wednesday, November 25 (7.30pm) as the Trust continues to push ahead with its John Clare Countryside vision.
The peasant poet from Helpston regularly wrote about the local landscape in his poetry. Simon will be talking about Clare, his poetry and links to nature during the conversation. He is currently head of English and Modern Languages at Oxford Brookes University, having previously studied and/or taught at the universities of Glasgow, Dundee, Nottingham Trent and North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA).
He is vice chair of the John Clare Society. His PhD was entitled Sexuality, Agency and Intertextuality in the Later Poetry of John Clare(Nottingham Trent, 1999).
Among his specialities is the the relationship between literature and the natural world.
The conversation will be an online event. You can join by clicking here or pasting the link below into your browser https://zoom.us/j/92790261919?pwd=N3h2dnRoS3ltQkpiVkVVcEFxSGN3Zz09
