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Bryan Johnson (poet)
Bryan Stanley William Johnson (5 February 1933 – 13 November 1973) was an English experimental novelist, poet and literary critic. He also produced television programmes and made films. Early life Johnson was born into a working-class family, the only child of a bookseller's stock-keeper, Stanley Wilfred Johnson (1908–1973), and a waitress-cum-barmaid, Emily Jane (1908–1971, née Lambird), of Hammersmith, London. During the Second World War they moved to nearby Barnes.G. White, ''Re-reading B. S. Johnson'', Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, p. 14. Johnson was evacuated from London twice during the war. Having been educated at Flora Gardens Primary School, Hammersmith, he and his mother were moved to Chobham, Surrey in 1939 for two years, and he attended the village school. After a brief return to Hammersmith, he was sent alone in 1941 to High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, where he attended a local school. Having failed the eleven plus examination, he was unable to enter Latymer School ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Secondary Modern School
A secondary modern school () is a type of secondary school that existed throughout England, Wales and Northern Ireland from 1944 until the 1970s under the Tripartite System. Secondary modern schools accommodated the majority (70–75%) of pupils between 11 and 15. Those who achieved the highest scores in the 11-plus were allowed to go to a selective grammar school which offered education beyond 15. From 1965 onwards (following Circular 10/65), secondary moderns were replaced in most of the UK by the comprehensive school system. Schools of this type continue in Northern Ireland, where they are usually referred to as ''secondary schools'', and in areas of England, such as Buckinghamshire (where they are referred to as ''upper/all-ability schools''), Lincolnshire (still called ''secondary modern'') and Wirral (called ''all-ability schools''), and Kent where they are referred to as ''non-selective''. Origins The tripartite system of streaming children of presumed different int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Somerset Maugham Award
The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each year by the Society of Authors The Society of Authors (SoA) is a United Kingdom trade union for professional writers, illustrators and literary translators, founded in 1884 to protect the rights and further the interests of authors. Membership of the society is open to "anyon .... Set up by William Somerset Maugham in 1947 the awards enable young writers to enrich their work by gaining experience in foreign countries. The awards go to writers under the age of 35 with works published in the year before the award; the work can be either non-fiction, fiction or poetry. Since 1964 multiple winners have usually been chosen in the same year. In 1975 and in 2012 the award was not given. List of winners 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s References {{Reflist 1947 establishments in the United Kingdom Awards established in 1947 British literary awards Literary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eric Gregory Award
The Eric Gregory Award is a literary award given annually by the Society of Authors for a collection by United Kingdom poets under the age of 30. The award was founded in 1960 by Dr. Eric Gregory to support and encourage young poets. Past winners *1960: Christopher Levenson *1961: Adrian Mitchell, Geoffrey Hill *1962: Donald Thomas, James Simmons, Bryan Johnson, Jenny Joseph *1963: Ian Hamilton, Stewart Conn, Peter Griffith, David Wevill *1964: Robert Nye, Ken Smith, Jean Symons, Ted Walker *1965: John Fuller, Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, Norman Talbot *1966: Robin Fulton, Seamus Heaney, Hugo Williams *1967: Angus Calder, Marcus Cumberlege, David Harsent, David Selzer, Brian Patten *1968: James Aitchison, Douglas Dunn, Brian Jones *1969: Gavin Bantock, Jeremy Hooker, Jenny King, Neil Powell, Landeg E. White *1970: Helen Frye, Paul Mills, John Mole, Brian Morse, Alan Perry, Richard Tibbitts *1971: Martin Booth, Florence Bull, John Pook, D. M. Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
House Mother Normal
''House Mother Normal'' (subtitle – ''"A Geriatric Comedy"'') is a novel by the experimental writer B. S. Johnson. As is typical of Johnson's work the novel is written in an unorthodox style. Plot summary The novel is set in a nursing home A nursing home is a facility for the residential care of older people, senior citizens, or disabled people. Nursing homes may also be referred to as care homes, skilled nursing facilities (SNF), or long-term care facilities. Often, these terms .... It follows part of a typical day for a group of elderly people, both male and female. Their thoughts, memories and opinions of each other and the House Mother (head matron) are explored as they go about their activities, which include: dining, singing, making items for the House Mother to sell on the black market, playing pass-the-parcel, exercising and participating in wheelchair jousts at the House Mother's instruction. Style Each character in the book has their own section. Each of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorna Pegram
Lorna Pegram (October 25, 1926 – May 16, 1993), born Lorna Gladys Hurst Woods, was a British television producer and novelist. She produced ''The Shock of the New'', a series about the development of modern art for the BBC. Pegram wrote seven novels. Life Pegram was born in Ilford in 1926. Her parents were Sybil (born Hurst) and Reginald William James Woods. She obtained a first class degree at King's College London. She then worked for the BBC on the radio programmes ''Listen with Mother'' and ''Woman's Hour'', where she read readers' letters. In the 1950s she worked on the TV programmes ''The Wednesday Magazine'' and ''Look of the Week''. In the late 1960s she began her association with Robert Hughes, an art critic born in Australia. In 1969 Carmen Callil, the publicity manager for Panther Books, persuaded Pegram to include B. S. Johnson to talk about his book '' The Unfortunates'' for the BBC art series ''Release''. Johnson's book had eight parts that could be read in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Unfortunates
''The Unfortunates'' is an experimental "book in a box" published in 1969 by English author B. S. Johnson and reissued in 2008 by New Directions. The 27 sections are unbound, with a first and last chapter specified: the 25 sections between them, ranging from a single paragraph to 12 pages in length, are designed to be read in any order, giving a total of 15.5 septillion possible combinations that the story can be read in. Christopher Fowler described it as "a fairly straightforward meditation on death and friendship, told through memories." Jonathan Coe described it as "one of the lost masterpieces of the sixties". BBC producer Lorna Pegram employed Johnson to talk about this creation for the TV series "Release" after she was lobbied by Carmen Callil of Panther books. With barely any negotiation the interview was ready months before the book was ready for publication. The film included Johnson holding a mock-up of the book that was not at all similar to the final publication. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zulfikar Ghose
Zulfikar Ghose (March 13, 1935 – June 30, 2022) was a Pakistani Americans, Pakistani-American novelist, poet and essayist. His works are primarily magic realism, magical realism, blending fantasy and harsh realism. Biography Born in Sialkot, Punjab, in British India before Independence and Partition, Ghose grew up as a Muslim."Zulfikar Ghose" Encyclopædia Britannica. His father, Khwaja Mohammed Ghose, was a businessman. In 1942, during the Second World War, the family moved to Bombay (now Mumbai). After the partition of Undivided India into Pakistan and India, Ghose and his family emigrated to England. He graduated from Keele University in 1959, going on to teach at Ealing Mead School in Londo [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myddelton Square
Myddelton Square, the largest square in Central London's Clerkenwell, is a residential public garden square of the 1820s to 1840s, with playground, with many trees; its houses are built with exposed brickwork, Georgian style, with high-ceilinged ground and first-floor storeys. Two of its houses were obliterated and rebuilt, and two declared unsafe and rebuilt, in the London Blitz. Internally, with roads and pavements, it spans , as measures by from one set of houses fronting, to another. Architecture It was laid out by William Chadwell Mylne. It still presents as a set of 73 large townhouses of its original style but many have been internally subdivided. The houses were firstly built by 13 building firms, then that chosen in World War II for 11A and 12A on the south side, plus another commissioned from the London Blitz-related reconstruction of two north-side houses. All are constructed in a Georgian style of "yellow" stock brick (often now slightly darkened) in Flemish bond ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claremont Square
Claremont Square is a square in the Angel (Pentonville) part of Islington, London. Its central green mound, hiding a reservoir, is dotted with mature trees on all four sides (embankments). On its north side is Pentonville Road. It is lined on the south, east and west sides by early-nineteenth-century houses, and on the north side, across the arterial road, by heavily recessed apartment/office buildings. Many of the houses have been internally subdivided. Landscaped small reservoir The New River Company constructed a forerunner to today's covered reservoir, Upper Pond, in 1709. Water was pumped up to the Upper Pond from New River Head. In 1855, the Upper Pond was drained, deepened and lined with tall walls, all buffered by tree-lined embankments. The natural views and much-buried walls of the structure mean it was Grade II listed in 2000. It is in use as part of London's inner Ring Main. Thames Water have exclusive access and take charge of repairs, cutting and planting, assist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Birkbeck, University Of London
Birkbeck, University of London (formally Birkbeck College, University of London), is a Public university, public research university located in London, England, and a constituent college, member institution of the University of London. Established in 1823 as the London Mechanics' Institute by its founder Joseph Clinton Robertson and its supporters George Birkbeck, Jeremy Bentham, John Hobhouse, 1st Baron Broughton, J. C. Hobhouse and Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, Henry Brougham, Birkbeck is one of the few universities to specialise in evening higher education in the United Kingdom. Birkbeck's main building is in Bloomsbury, in the London Borough of Camden in Central London. Birkbeck offers more than 200 undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Birkbeck's academic activities are organised into five constituent faculties, which are subdivided into nineteen departments. The university is a member of academic organisations such as the Association of Commonwealth U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
