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Next Generation Poets (2014)
The Next Generation poets are a list of young and middle-aged figures from British poetry, mostly British, compiled by a panel for the Poetry Book Society in 2004. This is a promotional exercise, and a sequel to the New Generation poets (1994). The "Next Generation" was followed by ''Staple'' magazine's "Alternative Generation" (2005), ''Staple 62: Ten Years of Small Press Poets'', 12 July 2005. which selected a group of poets from the UK's small-press output. The Next Generation 2004 list comprises: * * * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Poetry
{{Unreferenced, date=February 2022 British poetry is the field of British literature encompassing poetry from anywhere in the British world (whether of the British Isles, the British Empire, or the United Kingdom). The term is rarely used, as almost all such poets are clearly identified with one of the various nations or regions within those areas. Types of poetry which might be considered British poetry include: * English poetry * Irish poetry from Northern Ireland *Scottish poetry (see ''Scottish literature'') *Welsh poetry * Jèrriais poetry *Guernésiais Guernésiais, also known as ''Dgèrnésiais'', Guernsey French, and Guernsey Norman French, is the variety of the Norman language spoken in Guernsey. It is sometimes known on the island simply as "patois". As one of the langues d'oïl, it has it ... poetry * Manx poetry * Cornish poetry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascale Petit (poet)
Pascale Petit (born 20 December 1953), is a French-born British poet of French, Welsh and Indian heritage. She was born in Paris and grew up in France and Wales. She trained as a sculptor at the Royal College of Art and was a visual artist for the first part of her life. She has travelled widely, particularly in the Peruvian and Venezuelan Amazon and India. Petit has published eight poetry collections, four of which were shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her seventh collection ''Mama Amazonica'' won the RSL Ondaatje Prize in 2018 and the inaugural Laurel Prize for Poetry in 2020. In 2018, Petit was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Biography Petit has published eight poetry collections: ''Heart of a Deer'' (1998), ''The Zoo Father'' (2001), ''The Huntress'' (2005), ''The Treekeeper's Tale'' (2008), ''What the Water Gave Me: Poems after Frida Kahlo'' (2010), ''Fauverie'' (2014), ''Mama Amazonica'' (2017) and ''Tiger Girl'' (2020). She also publishe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Next Generation Poets (2014)
The Next Generation poets are a list of young and middle-aged figures from British poetry, mostly British, compiled by a panel for the Poetry Book Society in 2004. This is a promotional exercise, and a sequel to the New Generation poets (1994). The "Next Generation" was followed by ''Staple'' magazine's "Alternative Generation" (2005), ''Staple 62: Ten Years of Small Press Poets'', 12 July 2005. which selected a group of poets from the UK's small-press output. The Next Generation 2004 list comprises: * * * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Sprackland
Jean Sprackland (born 1962) is an English poet and writer, the author of five collections of poetry and two books of essays about place and nature. Biography Originally from Burton upon Trent, Jean Sprackland studied English and Philosophy at the University of Kent at Canterbury, then taught for a few years before beginning to write poetry at age 30. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University, and was Chair of the Poetry Archive from 2016 to 2020. Published works *''Tattoos for Mothers Day'' (Spike, 1997) *''Hard Water'' (Cape, 2003) *''Ellipsis: Vol. I'' (with Sean O'Brien and Tim Cooke; Comma Press, 2005) *''Our Thoughts are Bees: Working with Writers and Schools'' (with Mandy Coe; Wordplay Press, 2005) *''Tilt'' (Cape, 2007) *''Strands: A Year of Discoveries on the Beach'' (Cape, 2012) *''Sleeping Keys'' (Random House, 2013) *''Green Noise'' (Cape, 2018) *''These Silent Mansions: A life in graveyards'' (2020) Translated works *''Inclinación'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Smith (UK Poet)
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Henry Shukman
Henry Shukman (born 1962 in Oxford, Oxfordshire) is an English poet and writer. He was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford. His father was the historian Harold Shukman and his brother is the BBC News reporter David Shukman. He is of Jewish ancestry – his grandfather, David Shukman, was part of the Jewish community who lived in Baranow, Congress Poland which was then part of the Russian Empire, before emigrating and settling in the United Kingdom. In 2000 he won the Daily Telegraph Arvon Prize, and in 2003 his first poetry collection, ''In Dr No's Garden'', published by Cape, won the Jerwood Aldeburgh Poetry Prize. His book was also the Book of the Year in ''The Times'' and ''The Guardian'', and he was selected as a Next Generation Poet in 2004. His poems have appeared in ''The New Republic'', ''The Guardian'', ''The Times'', '' Daily Telegraph'', ''Independent on Sunday'', ''Times Literary Supplement'' and ''London Review of Books''. In 2013, he wrote a poetry collection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Sheers
Owen Sheers (born 20 September 1974) is a Welsh poet, author, playwright and television presenter. He was the first writer in residence to be appointed by any national rugby union team. Early life Owen Sheers was born in Suva, Fiji in 1974, and brought up in Abergavenny, south Wales. He went to school at King Henry VIII School in Abergavenny, before studying at New College, Oxford, and the University of East Anglia, at which point he completed an MA in Creative Writing. During his time at New College, Sheers captained the Oxford University Modern Pentathlon team. Career In 1999, Sheers received an Eric Gregory Award from the Society of Authors. His first collection of poetry, ''The Blue Book'', was published by Seren in 2000. A collection of poems about family, first love and farming life, it was shortlisted for the Wales Book of the Year and the Forward Prize for "Best First Collection". Following this first publication, Sheers worked on the light entertainment television show ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Robertson
Robin Robertson (born in 1955) is a Scottish poet. Biography Robertson was brought up on the north-east coast of Scotland, but has spent most of his professional life in London. After working as an editor at Penguin Books and Secker and Warburg, he became poetry and fiction editor at Jonathan Cape. Robertson's poetry appears regularly in the '' London Review of Books'' and ''The New York Review of Books'', and is represented in many anthologies. In 2004, he edited ''Mortification: Writers' Stories of Their Public Shame'', which collects seventy commissioned pieces by international authors. In 2006 he published ''The Deleted World'', new versions of the Swedish poet Tomas Tranströmer, and in 2008 a new translation of ''Medea'', which has been dramatised for stage and radio. Robertson was a trustee of the Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry (and is now a trustee emeritus). Awards Robertson's first volume of poetry, ''A Painted Field'', won the 1997 Forward Prize for Best ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Riordan
Maurice Riordan (born 1953) is an Irish poet, translator, and editor. Born in Lisgoold, County Cork, his poetry collections include: ''A Word from the Loki'' (1995), a largely London-based collection which was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize; ''Floods'' (2000) which took a more millennial tone, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award; ''The Holy Land'' (2007) which contains a sequence of Idylls or prose poems and returns to Riordan's Irish roots more directly than his earlier work. It received the Michael Hartnett Award. His anthologies include ''A Quark for Mister Mark: 101 Poems about Science'' (2000), a collaboration with Jon Turney, an anthology of ecological poems ''Wild Reckoning'' (2004) edited with John Burnside, and ''Dark Matter'' (2008) edited with astronomer Jocelyn Bell Burnell. He has also edited a selection of poems by Hart Crane (2008) in Faber's 'Poet to Poet' series. He has translated the work of Maltese po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deryn Rees-Jones
Deryn Rees-Jones is an Anglo-Welsh Welsh writing in English ( Welsh: ''Llenyddiaeth Gymreig yn Saesneg''), (previously Anglo-Welsh literature) is a term used to describe works written in the English language by Welsh writers. The term ‘Anglo-Welsh’ replaced an earlier atte ... poet, who lives and works in Liverpool. Although, Rees-Jones has spent much of her life in Liverpool, she spent much of her childhood in the family home of Eglwys-bach in North Wales. She considers herself a Welsh writer. Rees-Jones did doctoral research on women poets at Birkbeck College, and is now a Professor of Poetry at Liverpool University. She won an Eric Gregory Award in 1993, and an Arts Council of Arts Council England, England Writer's Award in 1996. Works She has published three poetry books with Seren Books, Seren, ''The Memory Tray'' (1994), which was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection; ''Signs Round a Dead Body'' (1998), a Poetry Book Society Special Commend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacob Polley
Jacob Polley (born 1975) is a British poet and novelist. He has published four collections of poetry. His novel, ''Talk of the Town'', won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2009. His latest poetry collection, ''Jackself'', won the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2016. Polley has co-written two short films and collaborated on multimedia poetry installations in the United Kingdom. Early life and education Jacob Polley was born in 1975 in Carlisle, United Kingdom. He grew up in Bowness-on-Solway, He studied English at Lancaster University from 1993 to 1996 and earned an MA in English and Creative Writing at the University in 1997. Career After graduation, Polley worked in various jobs, eventually landing the position of poet-in-residence at the ''Cumberland News'' in Carlisle. He taught poetry in local schools and later was awarded a two year fellowship at Trinity College, Cambridge. He was poet-in-residence at the Wordsworth Trust in 2002. Polley published his first poetry collection, ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
