Liz Berry reading and conversation about 'accents'

Location
Lecture Room 8 - Arts Building
Dates
Wednesday 24 October 2018 (13:30-15:30)
Liz Berry

Have you ever felt embarrassed by your accent, or disadvantaged by it (in the classroom, maybe, or an interview)? Why do we think of some accents as funny, and not take people seriously when they don't 'talk posh'?

On Wednesday 24 October 2018, the Birmingham poet Liz Berry will give a reading followed by a conversation about accents, and a Q+A.

Liz's first book of poems, Black Country (Chatto & Windus, 2014) won the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; a poem from her latest, The Republic of Motherhood, won their prize for Best Single Poem, 2018. Her verse (this is from The Poetry Archive) is thronged with 'lost dialect words – fittle, blart, jimmucking – inspiring a sense of simple wonder at the strangeness of the world': she makes beautiful poems out of Black Country vocabulary, and reads them with a strong, passionate accent.