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If you’ve seen the new Term Card you’ll know that Trinity is packed with a marvellous programme of events. As well as a great line up of University Sermons we have Ascension Day services and Beating of the Bounds, the Bampton Lectures, and the new poetry workshop series 'In Numbers.’ There’s also the Tudor Day, which we’re calling ‘Gloriana,’ on May 23rd to look forward to.
And as if that wasn’t enough, we have one of our most interesting student and 20-somethings series coming up: ‘On Anger.’ It’s inspired by a paper I recently read ‘The Aptness of Anger’ by Dr Amia Srinivasan, a Prize Fellow at All Souls. Our very own Dr Kate Saunders and poet Bernard O’Donoghue will also be speaking.
The series aims to look at anger from the perspective of philosophy, psychiatry and poetry. So if you’re a student or twenty-something don’t miss it. And if you’re not but you know some, then please spread the word. The kick-off session is on Election Night, where emotions will already be running high…
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| | Services this Week
Tuesdays & Thursdays
12.15pm Lunchtime Eucharist
Sunday 19th April Easter 3
10.30am Sung Eucharist
Preacher: Revd Alan Ramsey |
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Forthcoming Events
Bampton Lecture Series - 5pm: 27 April: Love Life – God, Community, Practices
29 April: The Jews and Other Others
On Anger Student Series - 7.30pm 7th May - The Aptness of Anger 21st May - All the Rage
In Numbers Poetry Series - 7.30pm 27 April : Maths and Language Panel Discussion 6th May: Poetry Workshop |
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Forthcoming Concerts Saturday, 18th March, 8pm The Oxford Sinfonia: Berlioz, Ravel & Bizet
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Poetry
Competition:
Poems
for Queen Bess
In
1566, Queen Elizabeth I made a memorable trip to Oxford, when she was greeted with
a rich pageant of music, disputations and parades. On 23rd May 2015, the University Church will host a
re-enactment of this day.
Poems
are invited on the theme of “Tudor”.
There are three categories: under 13, 14-17,
and 18+. The winners in each category will receive book tokens.
First
prize in each category:
18+: £50
14-17: £40
Under 13: £30
Winners will be
announced on Friday 8th May. Shortlisted poems will be printed for
display on the walls of St Mary’s, as they were in the time of Elizabeth I, and
poets will be invited to read as part of the celebrations on 23rd
May.
To enter, email smv.heritage@gmail.com by Monday 27th April. Poems must
be original and unpublished. Please
email your poem (max. 40 lines) as an attachment (the poet’s name must not appear
on the poem itself) and include a separate document with your name, title of
poem, age (if under 18), address and email.
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Tell Me a Story
Long ago, in Kentucky, I, a boy, stood
By a dirt road, in first dark, and heard
The great geese hoot northward.
I could not see them, there being no moon
And the stars sparse. I heard them.
I did not know what was happening in my heart.
It was the season before the elderberry blooms,
Therefore they were going north.
The sound was passing northward.
Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989)
This week is the last of our vacation seminars on poets with a connection to Oxford University. Born in Guthrie, Kentucky, Robert Penn Warren was a Rhodes Scholar at New College, gaining his B.Litt. in 1930. A poet, novelist and critic, Warren is the only person to have won the Pulitzer Prize for both poetry and fiction.
This poem marries two types of experience: the child’s, and the adult’s impression of that initial experience. Many poems are play with similar tropes, but Warren’s does not overtly lay the acetate of adult experience over the child’s. We are instead invited to share the child’s wordless sense of otherness – even if it is implied that the adult speaker now has a better idea of what impact this scene has had. Perhaps another child has demanded the story of the poem’s title; they are given not a narrative with a pleasing arc and a moral, but instead a more lasting story – of change, subtle, at work in the mind of a child.
On Monday 27th April we begin ‘In Numbers’, a new programme of panel discussions and poetry workshops exploring the relationship between mathematics and the humanities with a focus on the history of the University Church. The first panel is on Mathematics and Language. Free, all welcome. 7-8pm in the Old Library.
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