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Author Archives: Clare Spencer
Katrina Naomi is awarded writing residency
Katrina Naomi has been awarded a prestigious Gladstone’s Library Residency in 2013. She has just returned from reading at the Poetry on the Lake Festival in Italy, where she won second prize in the Poetry on the Lake short poem … Continue reading
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Heather Richardson’s bid wins EPSRC Commercial Challenge
A couple of months ago a news item on the OU Home page caught my eye. It was the launch of a Commercial Challenge competition for researchers and research students who had come up with a business idea as a … Continue reading
An article on female writing friendships
Emily Midorikawa and Emma Sweeney – longstanding friends, collaborators and OU Associate Lecturers – had a piece in The Times on Saturday May 26th. The one-page feature celebrates female writing friendships in the run-up to the announcement of the last ever … Continue reading
A new verse novel from Pauline Hughes
Smokestack Books, the publishers of Pauline’s new verse novel, describe it as follows: ‘ The fabled city of Timbuktu, once the dazzling capital of the Songhay empire, is now just another impoverished desert town on the tourist trail. From Here to Timbuktu follows … Continue reading
A themed sequence of poems from Michael W. Thomas
‘Other Than They Were’: Figures on a Municipal Ground. (Batmans Hill, 1961-72: Poems) When people, landscape and memory meet, the consequences are often unpredictable. Memory, however, is the lynch-pin: that faculty which occupies the border between lived experience and fiction, … Continue reading
Bill Greenwell’s new collection of poetry
Bill Greenwell’s new collection, Ringers, is published this month by Cinnamon Press, which also published Impossible Objects in 2006. It contains sixty poems which veer from the satirical to the serious, well quite serious, and from poems about childhood and … Continue reading
Michael Stewart’s novel wins the Not the Booker prize
Michael Stewart’s novel King Crow, published in January 2011, has been voted the winner of the 2011 Not the Booker prize. The prize is awarded by readers of the Guardian books blog, after an extended process of nominations, shortlisting and reviewing … Continue reading
A new poetry collection from Pauline Hughes
Pauline’s poetry collection Bint is to be launched on November 13 in Gallery North at Northumbria University at 6 pm. It is published by Red Squirrel Press. Pauline writes: ‘Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has … Continue reading
Turning the Wheel – a new book by Kevan Manwaring
The big ’40’ was coming up. I wanted to do something special to mark my fortieth year. I had a birthday party planned, but beyond this I want to make it a ‘landmark year’. They say life begins at forty, … Continue reading