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New Blood (book)
''New Blood'' () is an anthology of British and Commonwealth poetry edited by Neil Astley and published by Bloodaxe Books in 1999. Critical reception Poets are introduced by short paragraphs put together by the editor, but often featuring blurb-like quotes from other contributors to the anthology; ''New Blood'' has been criticized as being "a family affair"Redmond, work cited ... "one feels one has stumbled, cold and sober, on a stranger’s wedding reception, where everyone has long since become embarrassingly intimate." Contributors In the order presented in the anthology the contributors are: John Kinsella · Pauline Sainer · Deborah Randall · Marion Lomax · Imtiaz Dharker · Geoff Hattersley · Brendan Cleary · Maura Dooley · W. N. Herbert · Jackie Kay · Ian Duhig · Elizabeth Garrett · Linda France · Anne Rouse · Moniza Alvi · Stephen Knight · Katie Donovan · Chris Greenhalgh · Ann Sansom · Tracy Ryan · Maggie Hannan · Gwyneth Lewis · Julia Copus · E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Great Britain
Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It is dominated by a maritime climate with narrow temperature differences between seasons. The 60% smaller island of Ireland is to the west—these islands, along with over 1,000 smaller surrounding islands and named substantial rocks, form the British Isles archipelago. Connected to mainland Europe until 9,000 years ago by a landbridge now known as Doggerland, Great Britain has been inhabited by modern humans for around 30,000 years. In 2011, it had a population of about , making it the world's third-most-populous island after Java in Indonesia and Honshu in Japan. The term "Great Britain" is often used to refer to England, Scotland and Wales, including their component adjoining islands. Great Britain and Northern Ireland now constitute the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda France
Linda France is a British poet, writer and editor. She has published eight full-length poetry collections, a number of pamphlets, and was editor of the influential anthology, ''Sixty Women Poets''. France is the author of ''The Toast of the Kit-Cat Club'', a verse biography of the eighteenth-century traveler and social rebel, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. She has won numerous awards and fellowships, including the National Poetry Competition in 2013. Early life and education Linda France was born in Wallsend, Newcastle upon Tyne on 21 May 1958. When France was five years old, her family moved to Dorset, when her father's employer established a new paint manufacturing business. In an interview in 2016, France revealed that moving to Dorset, with its own unique dialect, was an influential moment in her life. She stated: "The effect of that linguistic shift made a writer out of me – the shedding of my native tongue (Geordie), and the language of the hearth to try to belong 'else ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katrina Porteous
Katrina Porteous (born 1960 in Aberdeen) is a Scottish poet, historian and broadcaster. Her particular interests include the inshore fishing community of the Northumberland coast, and the cultural and natural history of that area. Biography Katrina Porteous was born in Aberdeen, Scotland in 1960. She grew up in County Durham. She studied history at Cambridge, graduating in 1982. Afterwards, she studied in the USA on a Harkness Fellowship. In 1989 she won an Eric Gregory Award, and has since received awards from Arts Council England and the Arts Foundation. Many of the poems in her first collection, ''The Lost Music'' (Bloodaxe Books, 1996), focus on the Northumbrian fishing community. Her prose books on the subject include ''The Bonny Fisher Lad'' (People’s History, 2003) and ''Limekilns and Lobster Pots'' (Jardine Press, 2013). She also writes in Northumbrian dialect, as in ''The Wund an’ the Wetter'', recorded on CD with piper Chris Ormston (Iron Press, 1999). She is Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracey Herd
Tracey Herd (born 1968) is a Scottish poet based in Dundee. Education Herd graduated from the University of Dundee in English and American Studies in 1991. Career Herd's early works were published in anthologies such as ''New Women Poets'' (Bloodaxe Books, 1990), ''Eric, Gairfish (Duende: A Dundee Anthology,'' 1991''), The Gregory Anthology 1991-1993,'' (Sinclair-Stevenson, 1993). After winning the Eric Gregory Award in 1993 and a Scottish Arts Council Bursary in 1995 Herd published her debut collection ''No Hiding Place'' (Bloodaxe, 1995) which was subsequently shortlisted for the Forward Prize's Best First Collection. Herd's second collection, ''Dead Redhead'' (Bloodaxe Books, 2001) was published during her residency as a Creative Writing Fellow at Dundee University. In 2002 Herd's collaboration with Scottish composer Gordon McPherson saw the production of a short opera titled ''Descent,'' performed by the Paragon Ensemble'','' which ran at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eleanor Brown (poet)
Eleanor Brown (born 1973) is an American novelist, anthologist, editor, teacher, and speaker. She is the ''New York Times'' and international bestselling author of novels ''The Weird Sisters'' and ''The Light of Paris''. Brown was born in Washington, D.C., and is the youngest of three sisters. She has lived in Minnesota, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Florida, and England. She resides with her partner J. C. Hutchins in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. Brown teaches writing workshops and conferences nationwide, including for The Writers' Table and Lighthouse Writers workshops in Colorado. Brown also participates in CrossFit and is a contributor for ''CrossFit Journal''. Novels Eleanor Brown's first novel, ''The Weird Sisters'', tells the story of the three Andreas sisters who have widely different personalities. They reunite at their home in the rural town of Barnwell, Ohio, after their mother is diagnosed with breast cancer. Their father, an English professor with a passion for all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julia Copus
Julia Copus FRSL (born 1969) is a British poet, biographer and children's writer. Biography Copus was born in London and grew up with three brothers, two of whom went on to become musicians. She attended The Mountbatten School, a comprehensive in Romsey, and Peter Symonds Sixth Form College. She went on to study Latin at St Mary's College, Durham. Copus' books of poetry include ''The Shuttered Eye'' (Bloodaxe, 1995), which won her an Eric Gregory Award and was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the pamphlet ''Walking in the Shadows'' (1994), which won the Poetry Business competition, ''In Defence of Adultery'' (Bloodaxe, 2003), ''The World's Two Smallest Humans'' (Faber, 2012), shortlisted for both the Costa Book Awards (poetry category) and the T.S. Eliot Prize, and ''Girlhood'' (Faber 2019), winner of the inaugural Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry. She is known for establishing a new form in English poetry, which she has called the ''specular form'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gwyneth Lewis
Gwyneth Denver Davies (born 1959), known professionally as Gwyneth Lewis, is a Welsh poet, who was the inaugural National Poet of Wales in 2005. She wrote the text that appears over the Wales Millennium Centre. Biography Gwyneth Lewis was born into a Welsh-speaking family in Cardiff. Her father started teaching her English when her mother went into hospital to give birth to her sister. Lewis attended Ysgol Gyfun Rhydfelen, a bilingual school near Pontypridd, and then studied at Girton College, Cambridge, University of Cambridge, where she was a member of Cymdeithas Y Mabinogi. She was awarded a double first in English literature and the Laurie Hart Prize for outstanding intellectual work. Lewis then studied creative writing at Columbia and Harvard, before receiving a D. Phil in English from Balliol College, Oxford, for a thesis on 18th-century literary forgery featuring the work of Iolo Morganwg. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maggie Hannan
Maggie Hannan (born 1962) is an English poet, formerly based in Hull, now living in County Sligo, Ireland. She is the author of a single 'but highly influential' collection of poetry, ''Liar, Jones''. She won the Eric Gregory Award in 1990. She was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection prize in 1995. She was director of the Humber Mouth Literature Festival. Bibliography * 1995 ''Liar, Jones'', Bloodaxe Books Bloodaxe Books is a British publishing house specializing in poetry. History Bloodaxe Books was founded in 1978 in Newcastle upon Tyne by Neil Astley, who is still editor and managing director. Bloodaxe moved its editorial office to Northumbe ... * ''The Nerve'', Virago (co-editor) * ''Wild Cards'', Virago (co-editor) References Living people 1962 births English women poets {{UK-poet-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tracy Ryan (writer)
Tracy Ryan (born 1964) is an Australian poet and novelist. She has also worked as an editor, publisher, translator, and academic. Life Tracy Ryan was born in Western Australia, where she grew up as part of a large family. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Literature from Curtin University and studied European languages at the University of Western Australia. She has lived in Cambridge, England, where she worked as a bookseller, tutor, editor, and writer. She was Judith E. Wilson Junior Visiting Fellow at Robinson College, Cambridge in 1998. She taught Australian Literature and Film at the University of East Anglia. She has also lived in Ohio in the USA. She is married to poet John Kinsella and has two children. Literary career Tracy Ryan has published over nine books, including three novels. Her poetry has appeared in several magazines, such as ''Salt'', ''Literary Review'', and ''Cordite''. She has also appeared in anthologies. Ryan is particularly interested in langua ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Sansom
Ann Sansom is a British poet and writing tutor. She has written two full length collections of poetry (both published by Bloodaxe Books) and her work has appeared in anthologies, newspapers and magazines around the world. She is currently a regular tutor for the Workers' Educational Association, Poetry Society and Arvon Foundation; and has taught at Sheffield Hallam University, University of Leeds, University of Exeter and University of Oxford. As well as giving hundreds of readings and workshops in the UK over the last two decades, Ann has also read and taught in India, Finland and Greece. Literary awards *1994 – YHA bursary for Irish poetry translation *1998 – Arts Council Literature Award *2003 – Author’s Foundation Award from the Society of Authors Publications Collections *1989 ''Painting From Memory'' s Ann Dancy Smith/Doorstop *1990 ''Opening the Ice'' s Ann Dancy Smith/Doorstop *1994 ''Romance'', Bloodaxe Books *1999 ''Vehicle'', Slow Dancer Press *20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Greenhalgh
Chris Greenhalgh is a British novelist, screenwriter, teacher and poet. Life Chris Greenhalgh was born in 1963 and brought up in Manchester. After studying English Literature at university, he lived and worked for five years in Italy and Athens. Upon his return to England, he completed his doctoral thesis on the poetry of Frank O'Hara. He has since pursued a twin career as a writer and educator. He has published two novels, three books of poetry and a successful film script, and has taught in Athens and at Sevenoaks School, where he was Academic Deputy Head. More recently he was Principal of Southbank International School, London and is currently Principal and CEO of The British School of Milan (Sir James Henderson). Works Novels '' Coco and Igor'' was first published in the UK in 2002 by Headline Review and has since been translated into a dozen languages, including French, Russian, Polish, Greek, and Chinese. The novel is based on the secret affair between Coco Chanel and I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katie Donovan
Katie is an English feminine name. It is a form Katherine, Kate, Caitlin, Kathleen, Katey and their related forms. It is frequently used on its own. People Sports * Katie Boulter (born 1996), British tennis player * Katie Clark (born 1994), British synchronized swimmer * Katie Hill (born 1984), Australian wheelchair basketball player *Katie Hnida (born 1981), American NCAA football player * Katie Hoff (born 1989), American Olympic swimmer *Katie Ledecky (born 1997), American swimmer *Katie Levick (born 1991), English cricketer *Katie Sowers (born 1986), American football coach * Katie Swan (born 1999), British tennis player * Katie Taylor, Irish boxer and footballer, five-time world boxing and 2012 Olympic champion *Katie Thorlakson (born 1985), Canadian soccer player Television and film * Katie Brown (TV personality) (born 1963), American television show host * Katie Couric (born 1957), American journalist * Katie Cassidy (born 1986), American singer and actress * Katie Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
