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Kevan Manwaring: creating a spoken word peformance to promote a new book

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Clare Spencer

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 →

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Kevan Manwaring’s Windsmith Elegy takes flight

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Clare Spencer

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 →

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Playing with words and music

Posted on February 11, 2011 by admin

  Write a play with songs, for a cast of four actor-musicians – that was the brief from Penrith’s rural touring company, Quondam. I’d only written one song lyric in my life, and loved it! So I was kicking keen … Continue reading →

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