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Care in the Time of Covid: Michael Rosen in Conversation

Care in the Time of Covid
In conversation

Join one of Britain's best loved children's authors Michael Rosen for this free, online event that explores care in times of crisis. Part of the 2021 Critical Poetics Summer School.

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In this free, online talk, children's author and performance poet Michael Rosen will be joined by Barbara Matthews (Executive Dean Culture, NTU) and Sandeep Mahal (Director, Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature)  to discuss care in times of crisis. Featuring a reading from Michael's latest work Many Different Kinds of Love: A Story of Life, Death and the NHS about his own experiences contracting COVID and his time in intensive care.

Find out more, including how to access the event livestream, on the Critical Poetics website.

This event is one in a series of free to attend, public events as part of the 2021 Critical Poetics Summer School programme:

Friday 25 June — Care in the Time of COVID: Michael Rosen in Conversation
Monday 28 June — Care for the Stranded: Astrida Neimanis
Tuesday 29 June — Care and Waiting: Marion Coutts in Conversation with Laura Salisbury
Wednesday 30 June — Inter-species Care: Maya Chowdhry and Mama D Ujuaje in Conversation with Eva Giraud
Thursday 1 July — Troubling Care: Nat Raha, Bhanu Kapil and Raymond Antrobus
Friday 2 July — Freedom and Care: Maggie Nelson in Conversation with Seán Hewitt

Organised by the Critical Poetics Research Group at Nottingham Trent University (NTU) in partnership with Nottingham Contemporary and Curated & Created at NTU.

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