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Wanda's Factory
Wanda's Factory was a co-operative of London poets and literary magazine editors active in the early 1970s. The co-operative sponsored readings and musical performances at venues throughout London, including at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, St. Mary's Paddington Green and at London's Canaletto Gallery, featuring writers such as Eddie Linden, Giles Gordon, John Heath-Stubbs and Americans Marilyn Hacker, Robert Coover and Ann Lauterbach. Wanda's Factory was also responsible for producing '' Poetry Workshop'', one of the first literary programmes broadcast on BBC Radio London. The programme was presented by David Sweetman and was broadcast from 1971 until 1972. Founded in London in 1970 by poet Denis Boyles Denis Boyles is a journalist, editor, university lecturer and the author/editor of several books of poetry, travel/history, criticism, humor, practical advice and essays, including ''Design Poetics'' (1975), ''The Modern Man's Guide to Life'' (1986) ..., the co-operative w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Institute Of Contemporary Arts
The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is an artistic and cultural centre on The Mall in London, just off Trafalgar Square. Located within Nash House, part of Carlton House Terrace, near the Duke of York Steps and Admiralty Arch, the ICA contains galleries, a theatre, two cinemas, a bookshop and a bar. Bengi Unsal became the director in 2022. History The ICA was founded by Roland Penrose, Peter Watson, Herbert Read, Peter Gregory, Geoffrey Grigson and E. L. T. Mesens in 1946. The ICA's founders intended to establish a space where artists, writers and scientists could debate ideas outside the traditional confines of the Royal Academy. The model for establishing the ICA was the earlier Leeds Arts Club, founded in 1903 by Alfred Orage, of which Herbert Read had been a leading member. Like the ICA, this too was a centre for multi-disciplinary debate, combined with avant-garde art exhibition and performances, within a framework that emphasised a radical social outlook. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paddington Green, London
Paddington Green is a green space and conservation area in the City of Westminster located off Edgware Road and adjacent to the Westway. It is the oldest part of Paddington and became a separate conservation area in 1988, having previously formed part of Maida Vale conservation area. At one time, the Green was surrounded by large Georgian houses, but now only two remain on the east side of the Green. History and notable buildings Paddington Green contains part of the ancient Paddington and Lilestone villages which became fashionable at the end of the 18th century because of its village setting and proximity to the West End of London. An omnibus service to the City of London was introduced in 1829 by George Shillibeer. St Mary on Paddington Green Church is part of the Parish of Little Venice and is the third church on this site. The church was built in 1791 by John Plaw. Its graveyard – known as St Mary's Gardens (or St Mary's Churchyard) – contains monuments to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Linden
Edward Sean Linden (born John Edward Glackin; 5 May 1935) is a Scottish poet, literary magazine editor and political activist. From 1969 to 2004, he published and edited the poetry magazine ''Aquarius'', which, according to ''The Irish Post'', made him "one of the leading figures on the international poetry scene". The journal was significant in the growth of British, Irish and international poets, and has been described as Linden's "crowning gift to literature — the nurturing and developing of poetic talent". Early life Linden was born as an illegitimate child to Irish parents in Motherwell, Scotland. He was baptised as John Edward Glackin, but became Edward Linden upon being adopted by Mary Glenn and Eddie Linden (the latter being related to his mother through marriage), whom he came to regard as his parents. He grew up in the mining town of Bellshill, 2 miles from Motherwell and 10 miles south of Glasgow. In 1944, Mary died, and her widower Eddie, a miner, remarried a Scot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giles Gordon
Giles Alexander Esmé Gordon (23 May 1940 – 14 November 2003) was a Scottish literary agent and writer, based for most of his career in London. Early life and education The son of Esmé Gordon (1910–1993), an architect and Honorary Secretary (1973–78) of the Royal Scottish Academy, and his wife Betsy,Obituary: "Giles Gordon" ''The Times'', 15 November 2003. Retrieved 19 January 2008. Giles Gordon was born in , Scotland, and educated at the ,David Hughes [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Heath-Stubbs
John Francis Alexander Heath-Stubbs (9 July 1918 – 26 December 2006) was an English poet and translator. He is known for verse influenced by classical myths, and for a long Arthurian poem, ''Artorius'' (1972). Biography and works Heath-Stubbs was born at Streatham, London. The family later lived in Hampstead. His parents were Francis Heath-Stubbs, a non-practising, independently wealthy solicitor, and his wife Edith Louise Sara, a concert pianist under her maiden name, Edie Marr. His boyhood was largely spent near the New Forest.A. Curtis (2011): "Stubbs, John Francis Alexander Heath (1918–2006), poet", ''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' (Oxford, UK: OUP)Retrieved 25 July 2019./ref> The Stubbs family were gentry from Staffordshire; Heath-Stubbs's great-great-grandfather Joseph, a younger son, married Mary, the only child of a judge named Heath, this eventually becoming part of the family name. Heath-Stubbs stated in his autobiography ''Hindsights'' (1993), "In my ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilyn Hacker
Marilyn Hacker (born November 27, 1942) is an American poet, translator and critic. She is Professor of English emerita at the City College of New York. Her books of poetry include ''Presentation Piece'' (1974), which won the National Book Award, ''Love, Death, and the Changing of the Seasons'' (1986), and ''Going Back to the River'' (1990). In 2003, Hacker won the Willis Barnstone Translation Prize. In 2009, she subsequently won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for ''King of a Hundred Horsemen'' by Marie Étienne, which also garnered the first Robert Fagles Translation Prize from the National Poetry Series. In 2010, she received the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry. She was shortlisted for the 2013 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation for her translation of ''Tales of a Severed Head'' by Rachida Madani. Early life and education Hacker was born and raised in Bronx, New York, the only child of Jewish immigrant parents. Her father was a management consultant and her mother a t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Coover
Robert Lowell Coover (born February 4, 1932) is an American novelist, short story writer, and T.B. Stowell Professor Emeritus in Literary Arts at Brown University. He is generally considered a writer of fabulation and metafiction. Background Coover was born in Charles City, Iowa. He attended Southern Illinois University Carbondale, received his B.A. in Slavic Studies from Indiana University Bloomington in 1953, then served in the United States Navy from 1953 to 1957, where he became a lieutenant. He received an M.A. in General Studies in the Humanities from the University of Chicago in 1965. In 1968, he signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. Coover has served as a teacher or writer in residence at many universities. He taught at Brown University from 1981 to 2012. Coover's wife is the noted needlepoint artist Pilar Sans Coover. They have three children, including Sara Caldwell. Literary caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Lauterbach
Ann Lauterbach (born 1942) is an American poet, essayist, art critic, and professor. Selected bibliography Full-length poetry collections * ''Spell'' (Penguin Books, 2018) * ''Under the Sign'' (Penguin Books, 2013) * ''Or to Begin Again'' (Penguin Books, 2009) * ''Hum'' (Penguin Books, 2005) * ''If in Time: Selected Poems 1975-2000'' (Penguin Books, 2001) * ''On a Stair'' (Penguin Books, 1997) * ''And for Example'' (Penguin Books, 1994) * ''Clamor'' (Viking, 1991) * ''Before Recollection'' (Princeton University Press, 1987) * ''Many Times, but Then'' (University of Texas Press, 1979) Essay collections * ''The Night Sky: Writings on the Poetics of Experience'' (Viking, 2005) Early life Lauterbach was born and raised in New York City, and earned her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin. She lived in London for eight years, working in publishing and for art institutions, including London's Thames and Hudson art publishing house. On her return to the U.S., she worked in art galler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Poetry Workshop
Poetry (derived from the Greek '' poiesis'', "making"), also called verse, is a form of literature that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language − such as phonaesthetics, sound symbolism, and metre − to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, a prosaic ostensible meaning. A poem is a literary composition, written by a poet, using this principle. Poetry has a long and varied history, evolving differentially across the globe. It dates back at least to prehistoric times with hunting poetry in Africa and to panegyric and elegiac court poetry of the empires of the Nile, Niger, and Volta River valleys. Some of the earliest written poetry in Africa occurs among the Pyramid Texts written during the 25th century BCE. The earliest surviving Western Asian epic poetry, the '' Epic of Gilgamesh'', was written in Sumerian. Early poems in the Eurasian continent evolved from folk songs such as the Chinese ''Shijing'', as well as religious hymns ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Radio London
BBC Radio London is the Local BBC Radio, BBC's local radio station serving Greater London and its surrounding areas. The station broadcasts across the area and beyond, on the 94.9 FM broadcasting, FM frequency, Digital Audio Broadcasting, DAB, Virgin Media channel 937, Sky UK, Sky channel 0152 (in the London area only), Freeview (UK), Freeview channel 721 and online. The station's output is generally similar to that of other BBC Local Radio stations and targets a broad, mainstream audience. While previous incarnations of the station offered a more diverse range of programmes for London's various Ethnic group, ethnic, religious, social and cultural communities, specialist programming now remains in a smaller form and is mostly broadcast at weekends. According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audience of 671,000 listeners and a 1.1% share as of September 2022. History 1970–1988: Radio London Local radio arrived in London as part of the second wave of BBC local stations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Sweetman
David Sweetman (16 March 1943 – 7 April 2002) was a British writer, critic, teacher and broadcaster. Early life Born David Robert Sweetman in 1943, he left Dilston in 1960 to study Fine Art at King's College, Newcastle (University of Durham), as a scholarship student. At King's he formed what would become a lifelong friendship with Bryan Ferry, an artist and performer. After graduation, he went to Africa to teach English. He took a diploma at Makerere College in Uganda and wrote a series of textbooks on teaching English for the British Council in Tunisia, as well as a series of adventure books (''Skyjack over Africa'' and other titles) and biographies (''Queen Nzinga: The Woman Who Saved Her People'', among other titles in his series called Makers of African History) published by Longmans for younger African readers to encourage their language skills. Toward the end of the decade, he taught English and art at a school in Dar es Salaam. Writer and poet Sweetman was a freque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Denis Boyles
Denis Boyles is a journalist, editor, university lecturer and the author/editor of several books of poetry, travel/history, criticism, humor, practical advice and essays, including ''Design Poetics'' (1975), ''The Modern Man's Guide to Life'' (1986), ''African Lives'' (1989), ''Man Eaters Motel'' (1991), ''A Man's Life: The Complete Instructions'' (1996), ''The Pocket Professor'' series (2001) and ''Vile France'' (2005), a satirical examination of French elites. His work has appeared in many American and European magazines and newspapers. As an editor, he launched an "underground" newspaper in Baltimore in the '60s then served on the editorial staff of Crawdaddy, The New York Times Magazine, National Lampoon, Playboy, and Men's Health, where he was a popular columnist. He served as editorial director for several digital publishers, including Novo Media and Third Age Media, and from 2010 to 2013 was a juror for the University of Missouri Journalism School-administered City and Reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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