In winter 2024/25, Sudeh Mishra is visiting the University of Tübingen as a New Horizons Fellow. Sudesh Mishra is not only a scholar – namely, Professor of Literature at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji –, but also a writer, more precisely a poet, playwright and short story writer.

We would like to welcome Sudesh not only as a scholar to the city of Tübingen, but also – against the backdrop of the efforts to build research relationships in the field of artistic research and the Hölderlinturm for creative education – to introduce him and his poetry to a German audience.  With this in mind, the College of Fellows is organising a reading of his poetry in collaboration with the Hölderlinturm, the ‘Critical Proximities’ cluster initiative and the SLT on 22 January at 7 pm. All interested parties are cordially invited, admission is free; the event will be held in English. Sudesh has a new poem on Hölderlin-Celan he has promised to share. 

Poetry 
Rahu (Vision, 1987)
Tandava (Meanjin Press, 1992) ISBN 0-9592528-1-9
Memoirs of a Reluctant Traveller (Wakefield Press, 1994) ISBN 1-86254-315-1
Diaspora and the difficult art of dying (University of Otago, 2002) ISBN 1-877276-18-9
The Lives of Coat Hangers (University of Otago, 2016)

On the afternoon before the reading, from 3-5 pm, there will be a creative writing workshop at the College of Fellows’ seminar room (Villa Köstlin, Rümelinstr. 27), centred around a discussion of what poet's do with language to invent the world anew. All those interested, especially students and other people who write themselves, are cordially invited to attend.