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Numbers (magazine)
''Numbers'' was a literary magazine published twice a year in Cambridge, England, between 1986 and 1990. Six issues of the magazine appeared, of which the last was a double issue to celebrate the ninetieth birthday of the American poet and novelist Janet Lewis. Issue 4 was a celebration of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa. Each issue contained an editorial, poems, translations and prose by poets. ''Numbers'' was founded and edited by John Alexander, Alison Rimmer, Peter Robinson and Clive Wilmer. The magazine emerged from the editors' involvement with the 1977 to 1985 Cambridge Poetry Festivals, and with the exhibition Pound's Artists at Kettle's Yard and the Tate Gallery Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the U .... Contributors Notable contributors to the magazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Robinson (poet)
Peter Robinson (born 18 February 1953, full name: Peter John Edgley Robinson) is a British poet born in Salford, Lancashire. Life and career Born Salford, Lancashire, the son of an Anglican curate and geography teacher, Peter Robinson grew up, with the exception of five years spent in Wigan (1962-1967), in poor urban parishes of north and south Liverpool. He graduated from the University of York in 1974. In the 1970s he edited the poetry magazine ''Perfect Bound'' and helped organise several international Cambridge Poetry Festivals between 1977 and 1985, acting as festival coordinator in 1979. He was awarded a doctorate from the University of Cambridge in 1981 for a thesis on the poetry of Donald Davie, Roy Fisher and Charles Tomlinson. Among the most decisive events for his creative life, a sexual assault in Italy upon his girlfriend in 1975 — which he witnessed at gunpoint — formed the material for some of the poems in ''This Other Life'' (1988) and provided the plot outl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauris Edmond
Lauris Dorothy Edmond (née Scott, 2 April 1924 – 28 January 2000) was a New Zealand poet and writer. Biography Born in Dannevirke, Hawke's Bay, Edmond survived the 1931 Napier earthquake as a child. Trained as a teacher, she raised a family before publishing the poetry she had privately written throughout her life. Following her first book, ''In Middle Air'', written in 1975, she published many volumes of poetry, a novel, an autobiography (''Hot October'', 1989) and several plays. Her ''Selected Poems'' (1984) won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Edmond wrote poetry throughout her life but decided to publish her first collection of verse, ''In Middle Air'', only in 1975, at the age of 51.Lauris Edmond, ''In Middle Air: Poems'' (Christchurch, New Zealand, Pegasus Press, 1975). The work was awarded the PEN Best First Book Award for 1975. She began her editorial activities in 1979, and in 1980 published a selection of poems by Chris Ward.Chris Ward, ''A Remedial Persiflage'', e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
