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SUMMARY:Talk and Performance followed by a performance at the e-Luminare F
 estival Official Opening - Kei Miller
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CONTACT:Lucian Stephenson
DESCRIPTION:*The e-Luminate Cambridge Festival 2015 brings together talent
 ed individuals from the Arts\, Science and Technology\, to highlight the c
 ity’s unique architecture in a series of FREE Light installations.*\n\nJ
 oin the Opening Ceremony on 11th February with the Mayor of Cambridge and 
 Kei Miller's performance from his collection of poems A Light Song of Ligh
 t. This book sings in the rhythms of ritual and folktale\, praise songs an
 d anecdotes\, blending lyricism with a cool wit\, finding the languages in
  which poetry can sing in dark times.\n \nThe book is in two parts: Day Ti
 me and Night Time\, each exploring the inseparable elements that together 
 make a whole. Behind the daylight world of community lies another\, disord
 ered\, landscape: stories of ghosts and bandits\, a darkness violent and s
 eductive. Kei Miller’s poems celebrate 'our incredible and abundant live
 s'\, facing the darkness and making from it a song of the light. \n\n*Kei 
 Miller* is an award-winning Jamaican poet\, fiction writer\, essayist and 
 blogger. In 2004\, he left for England to study for an MA in Creative Writ
 ing (The Novel) at Manchester Metropolitan University under the tutelage o
 f poet and scholar Michael Schmidt. Miller later completed a PhD in Englis
 h Literature at the University of Glasgow. He was awarded the Forward Priz
 e for his latest collection of poems\, The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way
  to Zion. In 2014\, Miller was named as one of the 20 "Next Generation poe
 ts"\, a list compiled every ten years by the Poetry Book Society. Miller i
 s the director of the Research Centre for Creative Writing at Royal Hollow
 ay\, University of London.\n
LOCATION:Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road\, Cambridge\, CB2 8PQ\, DMB
 \, Room GS1
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