http://worplepress.co.uk Just another WordPress weblog Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:30:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A snapshot of Beverley Bie Brahic reading from her collection 'Against Gravity' http://worplepress.co.uk/2009/02/04/beverley-bie-brahic-reading-at-city-lights/ John Freeman was born in Essex, grew up in south London and lived in Yorkshire before settling in Wales; he studied at Cambridge and has taught English Literature at Cardiff University since 1972, and from 1983, Creative Writing. Articles, essays and reviews - in particular on Shelley, nineteenth century literature ... http://worplepress.co.uk/2007/09/24/john-freeman/ John Freeman is a master of the ‘plain style’ working in a poetic line that takes in Wordsworth and William Carlos Williams. In this fine new collection many discrete lyrics, sequences, prose poems and longer pieces such as “Archer and Acorn”, debate ‘ways of saying’, as in the opening ... http://worplepress.co.uk/2007/09/24/suite-for-summer-john-freeman-october-2007/ Check out our new book - Dove Release - New flights and new voices, edited by David Morley. This anthology documents a decade of writing at The University of Warwick and includes poems by sixty writers including some winners of the Eric Gregory Awards. Most of the writers are in ... http://worplepress.co.uk/2007/09/24/poetry-readings-and-events/ Peter Kane Dufault was born in 1923 and has been writing poetry for almost sixty years. Born and raised in New York, he attended Harvard and served as a bomber pilot during World War Two. In 1968 he ran for Congress in Columbia County, NY on the Liberal Party’s anti-war ... http://worplepress.co.uk/2007/05/09/to-be-in-the-same-world-peter-kane-dufault-october-2006/ This first anthology of Worple poetry is edited by Peter Carpenter with a Foreword by Kevin Jackson; it gathers together poems written by established Worple authors and others whose work has come to the press’s attention via submission. In all there are contributions from 25 writers including Jonathan Attrill, Anne Fitzgerald, ... http://worplepress.co.uk/2007/05/09/warp-and-weft-an-anthology-of-worple-writing-summer-2006/ Blake, summoning Milton to Felpham’s Vale, envisioned ‘Realms/ Of terror & mild moony lustre in soft sexual delusions’. Starlight on an ancient ditch, the English Channel. A new place humours a shify glaze. Eyes bruised by life in the city watch the waves. News from elsewhere is too loud, in ... http://worplepress.co.uk/2007/04/03/buried-at-sea-iain-sinclair-march-2007/ ELIZABETH COOK was born in Gibraltar in 1952, spent her childhood in Nigeria and Dorset, and now lives in East London. She is the editor of the Oxford Authors John Keats and author of Achilles (Methuen and Picador USA), a work of fiction acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic. ... http://worplepress.co.uk/2006/11/15/bowl-elizabeth-cook-october-2006/ FULL STRETCH: POEMS 1996-2006 represents the first ten years of Anthony Wilson’s publications. Always approachable, his work inhabits the borderline territory between laughter and grief, the public and private, memory and forgetting. ANTHONY WILSON was born in Middlesex in 1964. He has held residencies for The Poetry Society and The Poetry ... http://worplepress.co.uk/2006/11/13/full-stretch-poems-1996-2006-anthony-wilson-april-2006/ was born in Gibraltar in 1952, spent her childhood in Nigeria and Dorset, and now lives in East London. She is the editor of the Oxford Authors John Keats and author of Achilles (Methuen and Picador USA), a work of fiction acclaimed on both sides of the Atlantic. Her poetry, ... http://worplepress.co.uk/2006/11/12/elizabeth-cook/