Dr Christina Lupton, University of Warwick, introducing her new book (published by Johns Hopkins University Press in May).

Dr Makarchev talks about books from his collection. The talk is based on Nikita's prize-winning submission to Cambridge University's Rose Book Collecting Prize. The UL has put this online at: http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/about-library/prizes-and-fellowships/rose-book-collecting-prize.

"In hurried steps a new 'red aestheticization' is being created... An ominous sign, this. Manufacturers of cliche they are" - Imaginists, Eight Points (1924)

This talk aims to rediscover the suppressed, avant-garde poetic voices that informed and underpinned the Russian revolution's preliminary years, 1917-1925. Through a collection of contemporaneous dissident poetry, the speaker aims to underscore the richness of radical enquiry and experimentation that Bolshevik censors saw as a 'malignant outrage... on mankind, and over modern Russia (Lunacharsky 1921). Further questions to consider include: What is the role of poetry in society? What new insights can these works teach us about the early 20th century avant-garde? How do these works transcend their time-period and remain relevant today?

Dr Joanna Maciulewicz, Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, introducing her new book Representations of Book Culture in Eighteenth-Century English Imaginative Writing (published by Palgrave Macmillan in August).