Sponsored by the Judith E Wilson Centre for Poetry & Poetics
When & where: Thurs 2oth November 2025, 7:00pm – 8pm in the Nihon Room, Pembroke College, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, CB2 1RF.
Free and open to all. Wine will be served.
Contact for enquiries: Alex Houen, email ah217@cam.ac.uk
Rod Mengham was a recipient of the Cholmondely Award for poetry in 2020 and is the author of several poetry publications including Unsung (2006), Chance of a Storm (2015), Grimspound & Inhabiting Art (2018), 2019 the vase in pieces (2019) and of translations, including Speedometry [poems by Andrzej Sosnowski] (2014) and Flatsharing (2022) [poems by Anne Portugal. He was also co-editor and co-translator of the anthology Altered State: The New Polish Poetry (2003). His most recent book is Midnight in the Kant Hotel: Art in Present Times (Carcanet, 2022).
John Wilkinson will be reading from his new book In Abeyance (The Last Books). Now retired from being Director of Creative Writing at the University of Chicago, he has returned to the mephitic fens. His recent books include two books of poetry, Wood Circle and Fugue State, and an absentee memoir, Colours Nailed to the Mast.
