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Author Archives: Clare Spencer
Rosemary Dun live at HowTheLightGetsIn Hay
Rosemary Dun, Bristol poet, MC and stand-up, will be performing live at Hay-on-Wye Globe Field Stage on Wednesday 1st June at 2.30 pm. Here is the link to the programme: http://www.howthelightgetsin.org/2011-programme/globe-field/
New publication from Gregory Leadbetter
My new book, Coleridge and the Daemonic Imagination, has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan. It is a new reading of Coleridge, and through the exposition of his work considers fundamental questions of poetry, spirituality, and human consciousness. Here is the Amazon link: … Continue reading
Jane Purcell: BBC Radio 4 play commission
The way that BBC Radio 4 works is that you send in an idea, jumping through about 356 hoops while you do so. Then you wait and wait and at some point you might hear that your idea has gotten … Continue reading
Kathleen Jones: biography of Katherine Mansfield
I first fell in love with Katherine Mansfield as a teenager, when I found an edition of her Journals in a second hand book shop in the Charing Cross Road. Like her, I had gone to London to try to … Continue reading
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Tagged agent, archives, biographer, diaries, letters, mansfield, myth, New Zealand
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Update from Chris Powici
Tuesday 22nd March Today is proving itself a vivid illustration of how mixed my working life has become. I find myself moderating an Open University forum on ‘graduateness’ and how best to enhance it, at (more or less) the same … Continue reading
Sarah Bakewell wins 2011 Duff Cooper prize
Sarah Bakewell, associate lecturer for Creative writing (A215), was announced the winner of the 2011 Duff Cooper Prize on 22 February. Critically acclaimed, her biography of Montaigne, How to Live: A life of Montaigne, was previously one of only three … Continue reading
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Tagged biography, Costa, Montaigne, philosophy, prize
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