Riddles in Conversation 2: Creative Communities

Emma Molony, Jacob Polley, Chris Jones and Megan Cavell discuss printmaking, poetry and Old English riddles

The Exeter Book riddles are often enlisted to illustrate what we think we know about early medieval culture, but the truth is that they are better at asking questions than giving answers. In this seminar series, therefore, we put the Exeter Book riddles in conversation with different kinds of knowing. Exploring in turn poetic translation, visual art, ornithology, and woodcraft, these four conversations will bring new insights to our understanding of early medieval culture.The second of four seminars in the 2022 Riddles in Conversation seminar series will be given by Emma Molony, Jacob Polley, Chris Jones and Megan Cavell. Emma Molony is a printmaker and producer who enjoys creating public engagement projects that take printmaking out of its traditional studio domain. Jacob Polley won the 2016 T.S. Eliot Prize for poetry for his fourth book of poems, Jackself. He is Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University and lives with his family on the north east coast. Chris teaches medieval and modern poetry at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Strange Likeness: the Use of Old English in Twentieth-Century Poetry (Oxford, 2006) and Fossil Poetry: Anglo-Saxon and Linguistic Nativism in Nineteenth-century Poetry (Oxford, 2018). Sometimes he writes his own poems too. Megan works on Old English and Anglo-Latin poetry, with a special interest in animals, gender and riddling verse. She is the Principal Investigator for this AHRC project, but will be participating today with a different hat on! The group will be talking about their lockdown project, in which they collaborated with one another, a filmmaker, printmakers and members of the public through crowd-sourcing techniques to produce an interactive multi-media version of The Exeter Book’s Riddle 57 which was featured by the BBC as one of their ‘Culture in Quarantine’ projects in 2020.The seminar will be hosted on Zoom. A link will be sent to all participants shortly before the seminar. The series is organised by Megan Cavell (University of Birmingham) and Jennifer Neville (Royal Holloway, University of London) as part of the AHRC-funded Group Identity and the Early Medieval Riddle Tradition project. For more details, please contact Megan Cavell (m.c.cavell@bham.ac.uk) or Jennifer Neville (j.neville@rhul.ac.uk).

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