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Author Archives: Clare Spencer
Kevan Manwaring: creating a spoken word peformance to promote a new book
I began performing at the same time I began writing in earnest – back in 1991 – and so it is second nature to me to create a spoken word show based upon my latest publication, Northamptonshire Folk Tales (The … Continue reading
Mike Johnson’s visual poetry displayed
I recently had a couple of visual poems displayed in a Swindon Art Gallery, under the auspices of ‘Domestic Cherry’ magazine and Swindon Artsite. Sometime before that, I had a number of poems displayed, for a month, in Corsham Library, … Continue reading
Hometown tales – forthcoming from Kevan Manwaring
Kevan says: I am excited about the forthcoming publication of my second collection for The History Press, Northamptonshire Folk Tales. This has been a very special book for me to write – as I retrod my old stomping ground, revisiting … Continue reading
Emily Bullock’s novel to be published by Myriad Editions
Emily Bullock’s début novel, The Longest Fight is to be published by Brighton-based independent publisher, Myriad Editions, in early 2014. It is the first signing for fiction editor Holly Ainley, who acquired world English rights from agent Ed Wilson at … Continue reading
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‘Tweet’ by Joanne Reardon Lloyd
Found Plays was part of the Royal Court’s ‘Open Court’ season which ran throughout June and July this year, taking mini plays developed from overheard conversations, images, magazine stories and putting them on the theatre’s website or scattering them all … Continue reading
Mike Johnson’s career in poetry writing
My poetic praxis principally stems from PhD studies on twentieth-century kinaesthetic and otherwise experimental poetry (e.g. visual poetry, sound poetry, Merz, L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E) – what could be called avant-garde Modernism or Postmodernism. Making it new, both in terms of structure and … Continue reading
Kevan Manwaring’s Windsmith Elegy takes flight
This autumn sees the culmination of a ten year project for author and OU tutor Kevan Manwaring. With the publication of This Fearful Tempest, his five volume series, The Windsmith Elegy, concludes. The project began in September 2002, as part … Continue reading
The Book of Guardians – Derek Neale’s new novel
Derek Neale’s debut novel has been published by Salt. Set in the UK and Canada, The Book of Guardians is a detective story for our time – the detective is no policeman but a cross between social worker and lawyer. … Continue reading