http://www.thresholds.org.uk/how-are-we-beguiled/ Poets in residence at the University of Cambridge museums and collections. Thu, 13 Jun 2013 16:53:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 http://www.thresholds.org.uk/how-are-we-beguiled/#comment-84 Anastasia Bow-Bertrand Fri, 15 Mar 2013 16:49:08 +0000 http://www.thresholds.org.uk/?p=774#comment-84 It is only recently that I have discovered Cambridge ‘proper’. Aside from the array of student societies are the offerings of a dynamic, cultural City. These have been the highlights of my past term, affording the brightest mix of people, histories and backgrounds.
Through the wonderful Thresholds initiative, my term has been marked by a poetry workshop in the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology with Daljit Nagra. The project, which celebrates ten poets in residence at the University of Cambridge Museums and Collections, regularly holds poetry readings. At a brilliantly energised recital by Gillian Clarke at the University Library, I sat next to a lady who by day is a waitress, and by night an avid reader, currently embarking on her first novel.
Slowly, I am getting around the museums, reading, writing and listening as I go.

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