Festival of Ideas – The Intimate Catastrophe
Exploring our personal world; motherhood, family, inheritance and the private sphere - readings and conversation on writing into family, care, loss, and inherited damage.
• Hanna Komar is a Belarusian poet, translator, writer, and performer.
• Dr Jemma Borg, internationally acclaimed prize-winning poet and author of Wilder. She also has a PhD in human evolutionary genetics.
• Janice Warman, South African-born award-winning writer and journalist, author of These are the Things we Have Lost.
• Dr Claire Cox, author of The Poetry of Disaster: Chernobyl, Katrina, and the Anthropocene
Chair: Jess Mookherjee.
• Hanna Komar is a Belarusian poet, translator, writer, and performer.
• Dr Jemma Borg, internationally acclaimed prize-winning poet and author of Wilder. She also has a PhD in human evolutionary genetics.
• Janice Warman, South African-born award-winning writer and journalist, author of These are the Things we Have Lost.
• Dr Claire Cox, author of The Poetry of Disaster: Chernobyl, Katrina, and the Anthropocene
Chair: Jess Mookherjee.
