This is an in person and online event. The zoom link to attend online is below. The exact room in the university campus is Kelvin Building, Lecture Theatre 312.

Stephanie Sy-Quia is a writer, critic and printmaker currently based in London. She was born in Berkeley, California and grew up in France. Her writing has been published in Granta, the TLS, the White Review, the Financial Times, and others. She is the presenter of forthcoming podcast Eccentric Circles.

Amnion, just out from Granta, is a contemporary lyric epic, journeying from the Philippines to Libya, through France, Spain, and the UK. This debut collection of poems questions keenly and urgently the roots of migration and colonialism, charting what it means to grow up in a family divided by geography, history and language. Managing the consequences of empire, familial discord, personal mythologies and contemporary issues of class and race, these narratives of history, both personal and public, are disseminated through Stephanie's patient and ever-expanding rhetoric. Lyrically charged, this book-length poem weaves memoir, essay and poetics with the eye of an archivist. Throughout, the lyric 'I' is questioned through the very fragments that come to represent it. Amnion feeds into the history of Homeric, epic verse with ambitious scope, grace and erudition, promising to be one of the most significant texts on contemporary personhood.

Zoom Link: https://uofglasgow.zoom.us/j/92005577436

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