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Tower Poetry
Tower Poetry is an organisation affiliated with Christ Church, Oxford that aims to promote the reading and writing of poetry in young people. The group is funded by a donation from the late Christopher Tower, and run by Oxford University lecturer Peter McDonald. It publishes the magazine ''Poetry Matters'', which holds news and reviews as well as original poetry. It also runs the Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes, which awards cash prizes to the best poems submitted by young people on a specified theme, and the annual Christopher Tower Summer School.The Summer School is an annual three-day course for 18- to 23-year-olds, held at Christ Church. Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes The Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes are annual prizes awarded to young British poets between the ages of 16 and 18, for poems submitted on a set theme. The prizes are administered by Christ Church, Oxford, and are funded by a bequest by the late Christopher Tower. Since their launch in 2000, the prizes have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christ Church, Oxford
Christ Church ( la, Ædes Christi, the temple or house, '' ædēs'', of Christ, and thus sometimes known as "The House") is a constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Founded in 1546 by King Henry VIII, the college is uniquely a joint foundation of the university and the cathedral of the Oxford diocese, Christ Church Cathedral, which both serves as the college chapel and whose dean is ''ex officio'' the college head. The college is amongst the largest and wealthiest of colleges at the University of Oxford, with an endowment of £596m and student body of 650 in 2020. As of 2022, the college had 661 students. Its grounds contain a number of architecturally significant buildings including Tom Tower (designed by Sir Christopher Wren), Tom Quad (the largest quadrangle in Oxford), and the Great Dining Hall, which was the seat of the parliament assembled by King Charles I during the English Civil War. The buildings have inspired replicas throughout the world in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Pullman
Sir Philip Nicholas Outram Pullman (born 19 October 1946) is an English writer. His books include the fantasy trilogy ''His Dark Materials'' and ''The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ'', a fictionalised biography of Jesus. In 2008, ''The Times'' named Pullman one of the "50 greatest British writers since 1945". In a 2004 BBC poll, he was named the eleventh most influential person in British culture. He was knighted in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to literature. ''Northern Lights'', the first volume in ''His Dark Materials'', won the 1995 Carnegie Medal of the Library Association as the year's outstanding English-language children's book.(Carnegie Winner 1995) . Living Archive: Celebrating the Carnegie and Greenaway Winners. |
David Morley (poet)
David Morley FRSL (born March 1964) is a British poet, professor, and ecologist. His best-selling textbook ''The Cambridge Introduction to Creative Writing'' has been translated into many languages. His major poetry collections include ''FURY'', ''Scientific Papers'', ''The Invisible Kings'', ''Enchantment'', ''The Gypsy and the Poet'', and ''The Magic of What's There'' are published by Carcanet Press. ''The Invisible Gift: Selected Poems'' was published by Carcanet and won The Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. He was awarded a Cholmondeley Award by The Society of Authors for his body of work and contribution to poetry. He is a Fellow of The Royal Society of Literature. ''FURY'' published in August 2020 was a Poetry Book Society Choice and shortlisted for The Forward Prize for Best Collection. Background Morley read Zoology at Bristol University, gaining a fellowship from the Freshwater Biological Association. He then conducted research on acid rain. Before his appointment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Leviston
Frances Leviston (born 1982) is a British poet. Biography Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Frances Leviston later moved to Sheffield. She studied at St Hilda's College in Oxford University, where she read English. Leviston then began an MA in creative writing at Sheffield Hallam University, winning their Ictus Prize in 2004, which led to the publication of her first pamphlet, ''Lighter''. She won an Eric Gregory Award, for poets under 30 years of age, in 2006. Her first collection, ''Public Dream'', was published by Picador in 2007 and shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize. Her second collection, ''Disinformation'', also from Picador, was published in February 2015. Leviston's short story "Broderie Anglaise" was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story Award 2015 and broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Her first novel, ''The Voice in My Ear'', was published in 2020.Feigel, Lara (14 March 2020)"The Voice in My Ear by Frances Leviston review – sly, truthful stories" ''The Guardian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Schmidt (poet)
Michael Schmidt OBE FRSL (born 2 March 1947) is a Mexican-British poet, author, scholar and publisher. Early life Born in Mexico City, Mexico, Schmidt was educated at The Hill School from 1959 to 1965 and earned an English-Speaking Union Scholarship to attend Christ's Hospital School (1965–66). He studied at Harvard University and at Wadham College, Oxford University. Career Schmidt was Professor of Poetry at Glasgow University until 2014, the Writer in Residence at St. John's College, Cambridge from 2012 to 2015 and a visiting fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge from 2017 to 2018. He is founder (1969) and editorial and managing director of Carcanet Press and a founder (1973) and general editor of ''PN Review''. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, Schmidt received an OBE in 2006 for services to poetry.Michael Schmidt, ''The Resurrection of the Body'', Smith/Doorstop Books, 2007. His literary career has been described as having "a strong sense of internationalism an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Romer
Stephen Romer, FRSL (born 1957) is an English poet, academic and literary critic. Life, education and teaching career Stephen Romer was born in Hertfordshire, England in 1957 and educated at Radley College and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. After a year spent in the US, on a Henry Fellowship at Harvard (1978–79), he began work on his PhD, and was awarded a bursary to study at the British Institute in Paris. In 1981 he moved to France, where he taught English at the British Institute, the American University in Paris and at Paris X-Nanterre, before becoming Maître de Conférences (senior lecturer) in the English department at Tours where he still teaches. He has been three times O’Connor Visiting Professor in Romance Languages at Colgate University (New York). Romer now divides him time between Tours and Oxford, where he is currently Stipendiary Lecturer in French at Brasenose College. He has been Visiting Fellow at Sidney Sussex, Cambridge (2003), and in Oxford at All Souls (2010 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daljit Nagra
Daljit Nagra (born 1966) is a British poet whose debut collection, ''Look We Have Coming to Dover!'' – a title alluding to W. H. Auden's ''Look, Stranger!'', D. H. Lawrence's ''Look! We Have Come Through!'' and by epigraph also to Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" – was published by Faber in February 2007. Nagra's poems relate to the experience of Indians born in the UK (especially Indian Sikhs), and often employ language that imitates the English spoken by Indian immigrants whose first language is Punjabi, which some have termed "Punglish". He currently works part-time at JFS School in Kenton and visits schools, universities and festivals where he performs his work. He was appointed chair of the Royal Society of Literature in November 2020. Early life and education Daljit Nagra, whose Sikh Punjabi parents came to Britain from India in the late 1950s, was born and grew up in Yiewsley, near London's Heathrow Airport, the family moving to Sheffield in 1982. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jane Draycott
Jane Draycott is a British poet. She is Senior Course Tutor on Oxford University's MSt in Creative Writing and teaches English and Creative Writing at the University of Lancaster. Life and career Draycott was born in London in 1954. She studied at King's College London and the University of Bristol. Her pamphlet ''No Theatre'' (Smith/Doorstop) was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection 1997, and her first full collection ''Prince Rupert's Drop'' (1999), was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection. In 2002, she was the winner of the Keats-Shelley Prize for Poetry and in 2004, she was nominated as one of the Poetry Book Society's 'Next Generation' poets. Her 2009 collection ''Over'' (Carcanet Press) was nominated for the T S Eliot Prize. Her other books include ''Christina the Astonishing'' (with Lesley Saunders and Peter Hay, 1998) and ''Tideway'' (illustrated by Peter Hay, 2002), both from Two Rivers Press. She was previously poet in residence a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alan Jenkins (poet)
Alan Jenkins (born 1955) is an English poet. Life Jenkins was born in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey, brought up on the outskirts of London in Richmond, and educated at the University of Sussex. He has worked for The Times Literary Supplement since 1980, first as poetry and fiction editor, and then as deputy editor. He was also a poetry critic for ''The Observer'', and the Sunday ''Independent'' from 1985 to 1990. He edited ''Essential Reading: Selected Poems of Peter Reading'', 1986, and '' Collected Poems of Ian Hamilton'', 2009. He has taught creative writing for the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Arvon Foundation, the Poetry Society, London, and at the American University in Paris. He was a judge for the Christopher Tower Poetry Prizes. From 2015 to 2018 he was Poet in Residence at St. John's College, University of Cambridge. Awards * 1981 Eric Gregory Award * 1994 Forward Poetry Prize, for ''Harm'' * 2000 shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, Poetry Book Society Choice, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simon Armitage
Simon Robert Armitage (born 26 May 1963) is an English poet, playwright, musician and novelist. He was appointed Poet Laureate on 10 May 2019. He is professor of poetry at the University of Leeds. He has published over 20 collections of poetry, starting with '' Zoom!'' in 1989. Many of his poems concern his home town in West Yorkshire; these are collected in '' Magnetic Field: The Marsden Poems''. He has translated classic poems including the ''Odyssey'', '' The Death of King Arthur'', ''Pearl'', and ''Sir Gawain and the Green Knight''. He has written several travel books including ''Moon Country'' and '' Walking Home: Travels with a Troubadour on the Pennine Way''. He has edited poetry anthologies including one on the work of Ted Hughes. He has participated in numerous television and radio documentaries, dramatisations, and travelogues. Early life and education Armitage was born in Huddersfield, West Riding of Yorkshire, and grew up in the village of Marsden, where his fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francine Stock
Francine Stock is a British radio and television presenter A television presenter (or television host, some become a "television personality") is a person who introduces, hosts television show, television programs, often serving as a mediator for the program and the audience. Nowadays, it is common for ... and novelist, of part-French origin. Early life Born in Devon, and with early years in Edinburgh and Australia, Stock later attended St Catherine's School, Bramley, St Catherine's School, Guildford, where she was head girl, and is a graduate of Jesus College, Oxford, with a degree in Modern Languages (French and Italian). Career in journalism After working in specialist journalism on the oil industry, Stock joined the BBC in 1983. At first she reported on financial news and worked as a radio producer, later moving into television as presenter of ''Newsnight'' and (briefly, after serious illness) on ''The Money Programme'' on BBC2. In the mid-1990s she presented BBC2's ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jo Shapcott
Jo Shapcott FRSL (born 24 March 1953, London) is an English poet, editor and lecturer who has won the National Poetry Competition, the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, the Costa Book of the Year Award, a Forward Poetry Prize and the Cholmondeley Award. Early life and education Jo Shapcott was born 24 March 1953 in London. She lived in Hemel Hempstead and attended Cavendish School in the town prior to studying as an undergraduate at Trinity College, Dublin. Later she studied at St Hilda's College, Oxford and received a Harkness Fellowship to Harvard. Career Shapcott teaches on the MA in creative writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. She was a visiting professor at the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics, Newcastle University, was a visiting professor at the London Institute and was Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University from 2003 to 2005. She is a longstanding tutor for the Arvon Foundation. and a former president of the Poetry Societ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
