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New Generation Poets (1994)
The New Generation Poets is a group of 1994 British poets whose work was featured in a month-long nationwide festival, many of the writers going on to considerable popular success. The 20 poets were chosen by a panel of judges comprising Melvyn Bragg (non-voting chair), poets Michael Longley and Vicki Feaver, literary critic James Wood, Margaret Busby (publisher and author) and John Osborne (Professor of American Studies at Hull University and editor of the poetry magazine ''Bête Noire''). The New Generation Poets were featured in an edition of ''The South Bank Show'', presented by Melvyn Bragg, on 2 October 1994, and were also the focus of a special issue of ''Poetry Review''. The list of poets comprises: Poetry Book Society. * |
The Independent
''The Independent'' is a British online newspaper. It was established in 1986 as a national morning printed paper. Nicknamed the ''Indy'', it began as a broadsheet and changed to tabloid format in 2003. The last printed edition was published on Saturday 26 March 2016, leaving only the online edition. The newspaper was controlled by Tony O'Reilly's Irish Independent News & Media from 1997 until it was sold to the Russian oligarch and former KGB Officer Alexander Lebedev in 2010. In 2017, Sultan Muhammad Abuljadayel bought a 30% stake in it. The daily edition was named National Newspaper of the Year at the 2004 British Press Awards. The website and mobile app had a combined monthly reach of 19,826,000 in 2021. History 1986 to 1990 Launched in 1986, the first issue of ''The Independent'' was published on 7 October in broadsheet format.Dennis Griffiths (ed.) ''The Encyclopedia of the British Press, 1422–1992'', London & Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1992, p. 330 It was produc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Donaghy
Michael Donaghy (May 24, 1954 – September 16, 2004) was a New York City poet and musician, who lived in London from 1985. Life and career Donaghy was born into an Irish family and grew up with his sister Patricia in the Bronx, New York, losing both parents in their early thirties. He studied at Fordham University and did postgraduate work at the University of Chicago, where, at 25, he edited the ''Chicago Review''. Donaghy commented: "I owe everything I know about poetry to the public library system (in New York City) and not to my miseducation at university ..I mean, the Bronx, who knows, now it may be full of cappuccino bars and bookshops, but back in those days it wasn't. My parents would say something like 'go out and play in the burning wreckage until dinnertime' and I'd make a beeline for the library." He founded the acclaimed Irish music ensemble Samradh Music and played the tin whistle, the bodhran and was a flute player of distinction, music echoing in the themes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susan Wicks
Susan Wicks (born 1947 Kent, England) is a British poet and novelist. She studied at the University of Hull, University of Sussex. She taught at University College, Dublin, University of Dijon, and the University of Kent. She teaches at Goldsmiths, University of London. She lives in Tunbridge Wells. Awards ''Singing Underwater'' won the 1992 Aldeburgh Poetry Festival Prize. ''The Clever Daughter'' was shortlisted for both the 1996 T. S. Eliot Prize, and 1996 Forward Poetry Prize. Her translation of Valérie Rouzeau's ''Pas Revoir'' (''Cold Spring in Winter'') won the 2010 Scott Moncrieff Prize, and it was shortlisted for the 2010 Griffin Poetry Prize and the 2010 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize. She won the 2014 Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize for her translation of Valérie Rouzeau's ''Talking Vrouz''. Works Poetry *''Singing Underwater'', Faber and Faber, 1992 *''Open diagnosis '', Faber and Faber, 1994, *''The Clever Daughter'', Faber and Faber, 1996, *''Night T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pauline Stainer
Pauline Anita Stainer (''née'' Rogers, born 5 March 1941) is an English poet. She was born Burslem, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. She left the city to study at St Anne's College, Oxford, where she took a degree in English. After Oxford she completed an MPhil degree at the University of Southampton. Biography Her determinedly neo-romantic poetry explores sacred myth, legend, history-in-landscape, and human feeling—and their connections to the 'inner landscapes' of the imaginative mind. Her choice of subject matter is perhaps partly a reaction to her growing up in the industrial city of Stoke-on-Trent. The compact vividness of her visual imagery is akin to that of the Anglo Saxon riddles, Symbolist poetry, or the work of García Lorca. Reviewers have also detected the influence of Ted Hughes in her work. She was awarded a Hawthornden Fellowship in 1987. She came to public notice with her first volume, ''The Honeycomb'' (1989). Her later volumes, ''Sighting the Slave Ship'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Don Paterson
Donald Paterson (born 1963) is a Scottish poet, writer and musician. Background Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1963. He won an Eric Gregory Award in 1990 and his poem "A Private Bottling" won the Arvon Foundation International Poetry Competition in 1993. He was included on the list of 20 poets chosen for the Poetry Society's 1994 "New Generation Poets" promotion. In 2002 he was awarded a Scottish Arts Council Creative Scotland Award. His first collection of poetry, ''Nil Nil'' (1993), won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection. ''God's Gift to Women'' (1997) won the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. ''The Eyes'', adaptations of the work of Spanish poet Antonio Machado (1875–1939), was published in 1999. He is also editor of ''101 Sonnets: From Shakespeare to Heaney'' (1999) and of ''Last Words: New Poetry for the New Century'' (1999) with Jo Shapcott. His collection of poems, '' Landing Light'' (2003), won both the 2003 T. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glyn Maxwell
Glyn Maxwell (born 1962) is a British poet, playwright, novelist, librettist, and lecturer. Early life Of primarily Welsh heritage — his mother Buddug-Mair Powell (b. 1928) acted in the original stage show of Dylan Thomas's ''Under Milk Wood'' in the West End and on Broadway in 1956 — Maxwell was born and raised in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. His father James Maxwell (1928-2016) was an industrial chemist. Maxwell has two brothers, Alun (b. 1960), and David (b. 1964). His cousin Kerry Lee Powell is a noted Canadian writer. He studied English at Worcester College, Oxford. He began an MLitt there but dropped out. In 1987 he moved to America to study poetry and drama with Derek Walcott at Boston University. He returned to the UK and began publishing poetry in the 1990s. After his marriage and the birth of his daughter Alfie in 1997, he moved with his family to the USA, living and teaching at first in Amherst, Massachusetts, and then in New York City. He returned to th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Maguire
Sarah Maguire (26 March 1957 – 2 November 2017) was a British poet, translator and broadcaster. Life Born in London, Sarah Maguire left school early to train as a gardener with the London Borough of Ealing (1974–77). Her horticultural career had a significant impact on her poetry: her third collection of poems ''The Florist's at Midnight'' (Jonathan Cape, 2001) brought together all her poems about plants and gardens, and she edited the anthology ''Flora Poetica: the Chatto Book of Botanical Verse'' (2001). She was also Poet in Residence at Chelsea Physic Garden, and edited ''A Green Thought in a Green Shade'', essays by poets who have worked in a garden environment, published at the conclusion of this residency. Maguire was the first writer to be sent to Palestine (1996) and Yemen (1998) by the British Council. As a result of these visits she developed a strong interest in Arabic literature; she translated the Palestinian poets Mahmoud Darwish and Ghassan Zaqtan and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jamie McKendrick
Jamie McKendrick (born 27 October 1955) is a British poet and translator. Early life and education McKendrick was born in Liverpool, 27 October 1955, and educated at the Quaker school, Bootham, York, and Liverpool College. He studied English Literature at the University of Nottingham and graduated in 1975. He later developed an interest in the work of the American poet Hart Crane. He has been a visiting lecturer at various institutions including Roehampton College, and was a '' lettore'' at the University of Salerno for four years. He has held teaching residencies at Hertford College, Oxford, the University of Gothenburg, Jan Masaryk University in Brno, the University of Nottingham and University College London. He tutors part-time for the Oxford programmes of Stanford University and Sarah Lawrence and offers a translation workshop for the Creative Writing MSt. also at Oxford. McKendrick is also a painter: he has had several exhibitions of his works, most recently at St Anne's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kathleen Jamie
Kathleen Jamie FRSL (born 13 May 1962) is a Scottish poet and essayist. In 2021 she became Scotland's fourth Makar. Life and work Kathleen Jamie is a poet and essayist. Raised in Currie, near Edinburgh, she studied philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, publishing her first poems as an undergraduate. Her writing is rooted in Scottish landscape and culture, and ranges through travel, women's issues, archaeology and visual art. She writes in English and occasionally in Scots. left, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon and Jamie in 2021 Jamie's collections include ''The Queen of Sheba'' (1995). Her 2004 collection ''The Tree House'' revealed an increasing interest in the natural world. This book won the Forward Poetry Prize and the Scottish Book of the Year Award. ''The Overhaul'' was published in September 2012. It won the 2012 Costa poetry award. For the last decade Jamie has also written non-fiction. Her collections of essays ''Findings'' and ''Sightlines'' are considered inf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mick Imlah
Michael Ogilvie Imlah (26 September 1956 – 12 January 2009), better known as Mick Imlah, was a Scottish poet and editor. Background Imlah was brought up in Milngavie near Glasgow, before moving to Beckenham, Kent, in 1966. He was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he subsequently taught as a Junior Fellow. He helped revive the historic ''Oxford Poetry'' before editing ''Poetry Review'' from 1983–6, and then worked at the ''Times Literary Supplement'' from 1992. His collection ''The Lost Leader'' (2008) won the Forward Prize for Best Collection, and was shortlisted for the 2009 International Griffin Poetry Prize. Imlah died in January 2009, aged 52, as a result of motor neurone disease. He was diagnosed with this disease in December 2007. An issue of ''Oxford Poetry'' was dedicated to his memory. Alan Hollinghurst dedicated his 2011 novel '' The Stranger's Child'' to Imlah's memory; the final section of the novel has the epigraph 'No one remembers you at all' from Iml ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Hofmann
Michael Hofmann (born 25 August 1957) is a German-born poet who writes in English and is a translator of texts from German. Biography Hofmann was born in Freiburg into a family with a literary tradition. His father was the German novelist Gert Hofmann. His maternal grandfather edited the Brockhaus Enzyklopädie. Hofmann's family first moved to Bristol in 1961, and later to Edinburgh. He was educated at Winchester College, and then studied English Literature and Classics at Magdalene College, Cambridge, graduating with a BA in 1979. In 1983, Hofmann started working as a freelance writer, translator, and literary critic. He has since gone on to hold visiting professorships at the University of Michigan, Rutgers University, the New School University, Barnard College, and Columbia University. He was first a visitor to the University of Florida The University of Florida (Florida or UF) is a public land-grant research university in Gainesville, Florida. It is a senior memb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lavinia Greenlaw
Lavinia Elaine Greenlaw (born 30 July 1962) is an English poet, novelist and non-fiction writer. She won the Prix du Premier Roman with her first novel and her poetry has been shortlisted for awards that include the T. S. Eliot Prize, Forward Prize and Whitbread Poetry Prize. Her 2014 Costa Poetry Award was for ''A Double Sorrow: A Version of Troilus and Criseyde''. Greenlaw currently holds the post of Professor of Creative Writing (Poetry) at Royal Holloway, University of London."Lavinia Greenlaw appointed Chair of Creative Writing" Royal Holloway, University of London, 31 May 2017. Biography [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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