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Category Archives: research
Shanta Everington on her new book of life writing
Trigger warning: this blog contains sensitive information about adoption, surrogacy and egg donation. I am thrilled to be published this month by Routledge with my life writing book, Another Mother Curating and Creating Voices of Adoption, Surrogacy and Egg Donation. … Continue reading
Moscow and the 1970s – researching the novel – Sarah Armstrong
All novels need research, but some need a bit more research than others. My third novel, The Wolves of Leninsky Prospekt, is a cold-war story of a young British embassy wife, Martha, who lives in a communist apartment block in … Continue reading
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Tagged fiction, historical novel, Moscow, novel, research
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Prose Poetry UK
Anne Caldwell writes: ‘I am delighted to announce that I have an Arts Council Award this year to research and edit a new anthology of UK prose poetry. It will be called the ‘Valley Press Anthology of Prose Poetry’ and … Continue reading
Posted in awards and prizes, poetry, publishing, research, Uncategorized
Tagged Anthology, Arts Council, poetry, Prose poetry, Valley Press
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Bringing a major Irish poet back home – from Nessa O’Mahony
As my co-editor Dr. Siobhán Campbell, one of the Module Team developing curriculum for the new MA in Creative Writing, writes in the introduction to Eavan Boland: Inside History, a new book of essays and poems on the work of … Continue reading
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Tagged biographer, biography, collection, Eavan Boland, essay, Irish, Irish writing, poetry, women
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Kevan Manwaring – Desiring Dragons
Kevan Manwaring’s latest book Desiring Dragons: Creativity, Imagination and the Writer’s Quest was published by Compass books in May this year. Unlike Kevan’s recent collections of folk tales, Desiring Dragons is described – somewhat tongue-in-cheek – in its preface as a ‘How to … 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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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