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Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize
The Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize was awarded by the Poetry Society of London for a collection of poetry. It is named after Alice Hunt Bartlett who was the American editor of the society's ''Poetry Review'' from 1923 to 1949. The prize was established in 1966. Winners * 1966: Gavin Bantock for ''Christ: A Poem in 26 parts'' and Paul Roche for ''All Things Considered'' * 1967: Ted Walker for ''The Solitaires: Poems 1964-65'' * 1968: Gael Turnbull for ''A Trampoline: Poems 1952–64'' * 1969: Tom Raworth for ''The Relation Ship'' * 1970: Leslie Norris for ''Ransoms'' * 1971: Geoffrey Hill for ''Mercian Hymns'' * 1972: Paul Evans for ''February'' * 1973: Rodney Pybus for ''In Memoriam Milena'' * 1974: Allen Fisher for ''Place'' and Bill Griffiths for ''War With Windsor'' * 1975: Elizabeth Ashworth for ''A New Confusion'' * 1976: Lee Harwood for ''HMS Little Fox'' and Andrew Crozier for ''Pleats'' * 1977: Kit Wright for ''The Bear Looked Over the Mountain'' * 1978: John Montague ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Davies (poet, Born 1944)
John Davies is a Welsh poet whose first collection, ''The Strangers'', was published in 1974. He was awarded the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize in 1985. Early life and career John Davies was born in 1944 and brought up in Cymmer, Neath Port Talbot, Cymmer, a coal mining village in the Afan Valley, some ten miles north of Port Talbot in south Wales. He was the eldest child of Betty Dymond Davies née Chappell of Cymmer and John Vyrnwy Davies from Penclawdd, a coal mining and cockling village on the Gower peninsula. They were married in St John's Church, Cymmer, in 1942. Davies writes about Cymmer and his family in the first three poems of his 1985 collection, ''The Visitor's Book'', and again in ''Starting Point'' in his 1991 collection, ''Flight Patterns'', where he writes: "Where you started from didn't stop because you left...You keep on looking back...You were never meant to leave and can't..." Davies also draws upon his uncle Joseph Chappell, a coal miner in Cymmer, in ''The Voic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poetry Society
The Poetry Society is a membership organisation, open to all, whose stated aim is "to promote the study, use and enjoyment of poetry". The society was founded in London in February 1909 as the Poetry Recital Society, becoming the Poetry Society in 1912. Its first president was Lady Margaret Sackville. From its current premises in Covent Garden, London, The Poetry Society publishes ''Poetry Review'', Britain's leading poetry magazine. Established in 1912, it provides a forum for poems from both new and established poets. Its current editor is the poet Emily Berry, who succeeded Maurice Riordan in 2017. The magazine's editor from 2005 to 2012 was Fiona Sampson. There is a Poetry Café on the ground floor of the Poetry Society's premises, and performance space in the basement, rooms being available for hire. Awards The society organises several competitions, including the British National Poetry Competition, the Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kit Wright
Kit Wright (born 17 June 1944 in Crockham Hill, Kent) is the author of more than twenty-five books, for both adults and children, and the winner of awards including an Arts Council Writers' Award, the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Hawthornden Prize, the Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize and the Heinemann Award. After a scholarship to Oxford University, he worked as a lecturer at Brock University, St Catherine's, in Canada, then returned to England and a position in the Poetry Society. He is currently a full-time writer. Early life Educated at Oxford University, Wright moved to Canada to work as a lecturer. In 1970 he returned to London to work as an Education Officer for the Poetry Society until 1975. From 1977 to 1979 he was Fellow Commoner in Creative Art at Cambridge University. He subsequently returned to London and works full-time as a writer. He currently contributes monthly to ''The Oldie'' magazine. Awards *1977: Alice Hunt Bartlett Prize (awarded for ''The Bear Looked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helen Dunmore
Helen Dunmore FRSL (12 December 1952 – 5 June 2017) was a British poet, novelist, and short story and children's writer. Her best known works include the novels ''Zennor in Darkness'', '' A Spell of Winter'' and ''The Siege'', and her last book of poetry ''Inside the Wave''. She won the inaugural Orange Prize for Fiction, the National Poetry Competition, and posthumously the Costa Book Award. Biography Dunmore was born in Beverley, Yorkshire, in 1952, the second of four children of Betty (''née'' Smith) and Maurice Dunmore. She attended Sutton High School, London and Nottingham Girls' High School, then direct grant grammar schools. She studied English at the University of York, and lived in Finland for two years (1973–75) and worked as a teacher. She lived after that in Bristol. Dunmore was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL). Some of Dunmore's children's books are included in reading schemes for use in schools. In March 2017, she published her last n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Humble Administrator's Garden
''The Humble Administrator's Garden'' is a collection of poetry written by Vikram Seth Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet. He has written several novels and poetry books. He has won several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Academy Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crosswor .... It is his first collection, published in 1985. Sections The book has three sections, each containing works on a geography of Seth's life. The first section, titled ''Wutong'', is inspired by his years of study and travel in China. ''Neem'', the second section, has poems with themes from his native India, and the last is ''Live-Oak'', with California-based topics. Contents *Wutong **A Little Night Music **The Master-of-Nets Garden **The Humble Administrator's Garden **The North Temple Tower **The Gentle Waves Pavilion **The Tarrying Garden **The Great Confucian Temple, Suzhou **Nanjing Night **Evening Wheat **The Accountant's House **Research i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vikram Seth
Vikram Seth (born 20 June 1952) is an Indian novelist and poet. He has written several novels and poetry books. He has won several awards such as Padma Shri, Sahitya Academy Award, Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, WH Smith Literary Award and Crossword Book Award. Seth's collections of poetry such as '' Mappings'' and ''Beastly Tales'' are notable contributions to the Indian English language poetry canon. Early life and education Seth was born on 20 June 1952 in Calcutta. His father, Prem Nath Seth, was an executive of Bata Shoes and his mother, Leila Seth, a barrister by training, became the first female judge of the Delhi High Court and first woman to become Chief Justice of a state High Court in India. Seth was educated at the all-boys' private boarding school The Doon School in Dehradun, where he was editor-in-chief of '' The Doon School Weekly''. At Doon, he was influenced by his teacher, the mountaineer Gurdial Singh, who taught him geography and, according to Leila Seth, "gu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Fell
Alison Fell (born 1944 in Dumfries, Scotland) is a Scottish poet and novelist with a particular interest in women's roles and political victims. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies. Her children's books also pass on social messages. Life and work Alison Fell was educated at Dumfries Academy and Edinburgh Art College, from which she graduated as a sculptor. She began writing for ''Scotland Magazine'' in 1962. In 1967 she married a Leeds University academic and bore a son. By 1970 she had separated and she moved to London, where she co-founded the Woman's Street Theatre Group (later the Monstrous Regiment). An account of the company and Fell's life at this period appears in Michèle Roberts's memoir ''Paper Houses''.Michèle Roberts, ''Paper Houses: A Memoir of the 70s and Beyond'', 2007, Virago, ; paperback 2008, .Virginia Blain, Patricia Clements and Isobel Grundy: ''The Feminist Companion to Literature in English'' (London: Batsford, 1990), p. 361. She worked at the und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Constantine
David John Constantine (born 1944) is an English poet, author and translator. Background Born in Salford, Constantine read Modern Languages at Wadham College, Oxford, and was a Fellow of The Queen's College, Oxford, until 2000, when he became a Supernumerary Fellow. He lectured in German at Durham University from 1969 to 1981 and at Oxford University from 1981 to 2000. He was the co-editor of the literary journal ''Modern Poetry in Translation''. Along with the Irish poet Bernard O'Donoghue, he is commissioning editor of the Oxford Poets imprint of Carcanet Press and has been a chief judge for the TS Eliot Prize. His collections of poetry include ''Madder'', ''Watching for Dolphins'', ''Caspar Hauser'', ''The Pelt of Wasps'', ''Something for the Ghosts'', ''Collected Poems'' and ''Nine Fathom Deep''. He is a translator of Hölderlin, Brecht, Goethe, Kleist, Michaux and Jaccottet. In 2015, the film ''45 Years'', based on Constantine's short story "In Another Country", enjoyed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Medbh McGuckian
Medbh McGuckian (born as Maeve McCaughan on 12 August 1950) is a poet from Northern Ireland. Biography She was born the third of six children as Maeve McCaughan to Hugh and Margaret McCaughan in North Belfast. Her father was a school headmaster and her mother an influential art and music enthusiast.Irish women writers: an A-to-Z guide by Alexander G. Gonzalez p. 200. Greenwood Publishing Group, Westport, CT, 2006. She was educated at Holy Family Primary School and and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1972 and a |
Carol Rumens
Carol Rumens FRSL (born 10 December 1944) is a British poet. Life Carol Rumens was born in Forest Hill, South London. She won a scholarship to grammar school and later studied Philosophy at London University, but left before completing her degree. She gained a Postgraduate Diploma in Writing for the Stage (with Distinction) from City College Manchester in 2002. She taught at University of Kent at Canterbury (1983–85), Queen's University Belfast (1991–93 and 1995–98), University College Cork (1994), University of Stockholm (1999), and University of Hull. As visiting Professor of Creative Writing, she has taught at the University of Wales, Bangor, and later at the University of Hull. Rumens was Poetry Editor for the publisher ''Quarto'' (1982–84) and the ''Literary Review'' (1984–88). Her work has appeared in ''The Guardian'' and '' Harper's''. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984. Awards * 1981: Alice Hunt Bartlett Award (joint winner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas McCarthy (poet)
Thomas McCarthy (born 1954) is an Ireland, Irish poet, novelist, and critic, born in Cappoquin, County Waterford, Ireland. He attended University College Cork where he was part of a resurgence of literary activity under the inspiration of John Montague (poet), John Montague. Among McCarthy's contemporaries, described by Thomas Dillon Redshaw as "that remarkable generation", were the writers and poets Theo Dorgan, Seán Dunne (poet), Sean Dunne, Greg Delanty, Maurice Riordan and William Wall (writer), William Wall. McCarthy edited, at various times, The Cork Review and Poetry Ireland Review. He has published seven collections of poetry with Anvil Press Poetry, London, including '' The Sorrow Garden'', ''The Lost Province'', ''Mr Dineen's Careful Parade'', ''The Last Geraldine Officer'', and ''Merchant Prince''. The main themes of his poetry are Southern Irish politics, love and memory. He is also the author of two novels; ''Without Power'' and ''Asya and Christine''. He is marrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
