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Introduction to Jenny Mitchell’s Poetry
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About the lecture
In this module, Jenny Mitchell introduces her poetry, focusing on: (i) her poetry collections, Her Lost Language (2019), Map of a Plantation (2021), and Resurrection of a Black Man (2022); (ii) her goal to reframe the history of enslavement as a complicated history of Black people fighting for freedom, stretching back hundreds of years; (iii) poetry that inspires her, such as Robert Browning’s My Last Duchess (1842); and (iv) her research into transatlantic slavery.
About the lecturer
Jenny Mitchell is a poet and poetry workshop facilitator. She has published three full-length collections in the last four years: Her Lost Language (2019), Map of a Plantation (2021) – which is on the syllabus at Manchester Metropolitan University – and Resurrection of a Black Man (2022).
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Mitchell, J. (2024, March 01). Writers' Courses - Introduction to Jenny Mitchell’s Poetry [Video]. MASSOLIT. https://massolit.io/options/courses-by-writers?auth=0&lesson=16336&option=12329&type=lesson
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Mitchell, J. "Writers' Courses – Introduction to Jenny Mitchell’s Poetry." MASSOLIT, uploaded by MASSOLIT, 01 Mar 2024, https://massolit.io/options/courses-by-writers?auth=0&lesson=16336&option=12329&type=lesson