Creating dramatic lightning and fine words from the heart.

In this edition Simon Bertin encounters ….

Award winning Indian poet, journalist and writer Sudeep Sen talks on his life and works and recites some popular works from his two latest anthologies.

We visit the actors of Cambridge University’s The Greek play series at the Arts theatre in October and find out from the lead actor Dylan Hughes what’s install for us…. expertly shaped by classics academics, cast members and talented director.

Artist Robert Good tells us about his latest installation Tower number two at the Junction and find out why the project is worth hundreds of hours of construction in wood on a large scale to tell a story.

And we drop in Zimbabwean sculptor Euwittt Nayanhongo to hear about new work and what it means in terms of spiritual significance, respect and dignity to Africans as a tradition conveying a frame of reference we can understand and interpret.

Artist Robert Good exhibits his installation Tower No 2 (Watkin’s Folly) will be the second in a series of experimental structures exploring ideas of human endeavour and human hubris. (You can click here for images of Tower No 1a (Seems Like a Good Trajectory So Far) installed at Saturation Point earlier this year.) I have been working on Tower No 2 (Watkin’s Folly) since the start of the year, and it is too big to fully assemble in my studio, so I am very grateful to Matt Burman and Jess Weston-Snee at Cambridge Junction for giving me this opportunity to carry out a trial build of the tower in the J1 project space and document the results.

Robert Good

Author, Poet and Journalist Professor Sudeep Sen talks on his two recent books Anthropocene: climate change, contagion, consolation and Red, having just won a Life time achievement award.

One of the finest younger English-language poets in the international literary scene’ (BBC Radio).

Sudeep Sen’s poems have been translated into over 30 languages and included in major anthologies.

His prize-winning books include: The Lunar Visitations (1990), Dali’s Twisted Hands (1995), Prayer Flag (2003), Rain (2005), Aria (2010), and Anthropocene: Climate Change, Contagion, Consolation (Pippa Rann Books, U.K., 2021; reprinted 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2026).

An established anthologist, his first anthology was published by the British Council in 2001, and the latest, Converse, published by Pippa Rann Books in 2022.

Sudeep is a recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the Sanatan Puraskar Lifetime Achievement Award in Literature (2024), and is joint winner of the US$10,000 Rabindranath Tagore Literary Prize, established by the Maitreya Publishing Foundation, USA.

The Times Literary Supplement, Granta, The Guardian (UK) and Harvard Review(USA) are among the numerous internationally respected periodicals from around the world that have published his work. He is Professor of Practice at Panjab University, India, and was the first Asian invited to St. Lucia to deliver the Derek Walcott Lecture and read at the Nobel Laureate Festival.

Anthropocene:Climate change, contagion, consolation

Red

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Dylan Hughes is lead actor Euripides’ Ion in Cambridge University’s The Greek Play this October.

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The cast is complete by the chorus of Bella Ofo, Kate Woodman, Helen Brookes, Delphi Phillips, Elena Brown-Moreno, Corinna Scullion, Sophia Uppington and Izzy Megilley.

Euwitt Nayanhongo is a a renowned sculptural artist from Zimbabwe