Introduction to Jenny Mitchell’s Poetry

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).