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Robert Gavin Hampson
Robert Gavin Hampson FEA FRSA (born 1948) is a British poet and academic. Hampson was born and raised in Liverpool, studied in London and Toronto and settled in London. He is currently Professor Emeritus at Royal Holloway. He was Visiting Professor at the University of Northumbria (2018-21) and Research Fellow at the Institute for English Studies, University of London (2019-23). He is a member of the Poetics Research Centre and the Centre for GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway. He is well known for his contributions to contemporary innovative poetry and the international study of Joseph Conrad. Early life and education Robert Gavin Hampson was born in Liverpool in 1948. He studied English literature at King's College London between 1967 and 1970 and was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to complete a master's degree at University of Toronto. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King's College London
King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public university, public research university in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of George IV of the United Kingdom, King George IV and the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's became one of the two founding colleges of the University of London. It is one of the Third-oldest university in England debate, oldest university-level institutions in England. In the late 20th century, King's grew through a series of mergers, including with Queen Elizabeth College and Chelsea College of Science and Technology (1985), the Institute of Psychiatry (1997), the United Medical and Dental Schools of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals and the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery (in 1998). King's operates across five main campuses: the historic Strand Campus in central London, three other Thames-side campuses (Guy's, St Thomas' an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cris Cheek
Cris Cheek (born 1955) is a British-American multimodal poet and scholar. He began his career in the mid 1970s working alongside Bill Griffiths and Bob Cobbing at the Poetry Society printshop in London and with the Writers Forum group, who met with regularity on the premises in Earls Court. During that time he co-founded a poetry performance group known as jgjgjgjgjgjgjg . . .(as long as you can say it that's our name) with Lawrence Upton and Clive Fencott. Subsequently, cris collaborated on electronic music improvisations with Upton and ee Vonna-Michel as "bang crash wallop" and released several cassettes through Balsam Flex. In 1981, he was a co-founder of Chisenhale Dance Space. His music and sound collaborations include Slant (a trio with Philip Jeck and Sianed Jones). His radio program "Music of Madagascar" produced for BBC Radio 3 won a Sony Gold Specialist Award (now Radio Academy Awards) in 1995. He regularly taught performance writing courses at Dartington Colleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Cobbing
Bob Cobbing (30 July 1920 – 29 September 2002) was a British sound, visual, concrete and performance poet who was a central figure in the British Poetry Revival. Early life Cobbing was born in Enfield. He attended Enfield Grammar School and then trained as an accountant. He later went to Bognor Training College to become a teacher. During the Second World War, he was a conscientious objector. Early involvement with poetry and performance His involvement with performance began with the Hendon Experimental Art Club and the Hendon-based magazine ''And'' in 1951. This led to his setting up Writers Forum, which began publishing in 1963. In 1964 he published ''ABC in Sound'', a book that combined his interest in sound and concrete poetry in an exploration of the visual and auditory possibilities of the English alphabet. Better Books He left teaching around this time and managed Better Books on Charing Cross Road, London. Better Books was more than a mere bookshop. Once descr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjorie Perloff
Marjorie Perloff (born Gabriele Mintz; September 28, 1931 – March 24, 2024) was an Austrian-born American poetry scholar and critic, known for her study of avant-garde poetry. Perloff was a professor at Catholic University, the University of Maryland, College Park, the University of Southern California and Stanford University. She wrote books about W. B. Yeats, Robert Lowell, and Frank O'Hara and promoted poetry that normally was not discussed in the United States, such as works by Louis Zukofsky, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Brazilian poetry. Perloff was widely considered the most influential critic of experimental poetry. She coined the term "unoriginal genius" to reflect the desire of some contemporary poets to create poetry by using other people's words and constraint-based practices rather than inspiration or other personal sources. Early life Perloff was born Gabriele Schüller Mintz on September 28, 1931, into a secularized Jewish family in Vienna. The annexation of Aust ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Jean Chan
Mary Jean Chan is a Hong Kong-Chinese poet, lecturer, editor and critic whose debut poetry collection, ''Flèche'' (Faber, 2019), won the 2019 Costa Book Award for Poetry. Chan's second book, ''Bright Fear'', was published by Faber & Faber in 2023. Chan served as a judge for the 2023 Booker Prize and the 2025 Dylan Thomas Prize. Biography Mary Jean Chan was born in 1990 and was raised in Hong Kong. Chan graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Swarthmore College in 2012 with a BA in Political Science. Chan obtained an MPhil from University of Oxford, Oxford in International Development and also completed an MA and a PhD in Creative writing, Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2018, Chan's Pamphlet (poetry), pamphlet, ''A Hurry of English'', was published by ignitionpress and was chosen as a Poetry Book Society Summer Pamphlet Choice. Chan's debut poetry collection ''Flèche'' was published by Faber & Faber (2019). It was chosen as a Poetry Book Society Autumn Rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen McCarthy Woolf
Karen McCarthy Woolf (born 1966) is a poet of English and Jamaican parentage. Early life and education Karen McCarthy Woolf was born in London to English and Jamaican parents. Her father emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1957 as a part of the Windrush generation, and her experience and identity as a mixed-race woman has informed her poetry. She has a PhD (2018) from Royal Holloway, University of London: her thesis title was ''At the centre of the edge : contemporary ecological poetry and the sacred hybrid'', and it focused on the work of Louise Glück, Kei Miller and Joy Harjo Writing career McCarthy Woolf was mentored on The Complete Works poets of colour mentoring scheme initiated by Bernardine Evaristo to redress representational invisibility. McCarthy Woolf's 2014 book ''An Aviary of Small Birds'' was shortlisted for the 2015 Best First Collection award of the Forward Prizes for Poetry and the Fenton Aldeburgh First Collection Prize, and chosen as an ''Observer'' poet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sophie Robinson (poet)
Sophie Robinson (born 1985) is an English poet and teacher. Background Sophie Robinson was a student on the MA in Poetic Practice at Royal Holloway, University of London, where she subsequently completed a practice-based PhD in queer poetics under the supervision of Redell Olsen. Robinson's creative and critical work has been published in ''Pilot'', ''How2'', ''Dusie'' and elsewhere. Longer collections include ''Killin' Kittenish'' (2006), ''a'' (2009), ''Lotion'' (2010), and ''The Institute of Our Love in Disrepair'' (2012). Her work has also been included in the anthologies ''Voice Recognition: 21 Poets for the 21st Century'' ( Bloodaxe), ''The Reality Street Book of Sonnets'' (Reality Street, 2008), and ''Infinite Difference: Other Poetries by U.K. Women Poets'' (Shearsman, 2010). She has performed her work in Ireland, as part of the SoundEye Festival, and America. An out lesbian, she lives in London. She teaches at the University of East Anglia. Robinson was the poetry artis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Kruk
Frances Kruk is a contemporary Polish-Canadian poet living in London, UK. She completed her PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London, under the supervision of Redell Olsen. Her writings have been published in journals including ''Damn the Caesars'', ''Sous les Pavés'', ''onedit'', ''fhole'', ''ditch'', and ''HOW2''. She has exhibited visual work and performed solo and collaborative poetry Collaboration (from Latin ''com-'' "with" + ''laborare'' "to labor", "to work") is the process of two or more people, entities or organizations working together to complete a task or achieve a goal. Collaboration is similar to cooperation. The f ..., music, and interdisciplinary projects in various parts of Canada, USA, Cyprus, Ireland, and the UK. She also edited the occasional micropress publication Yt Communication with her late husband, the poet Sean Bonney. Works *Shift & Switch: New Canadian Poetry' (Mercury Press, 2005) * ''Markmallan'' (No. Press, 2005) *''clobber'' (yt commun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett is a poet and academic who is known for her publications in nature writing. Following her PhD studies in contemporary poetics, which led to the publication of a monograph titled ''A Social Biography of Contemporary Innovative Poetry Communities'' (2017), she published two full-length poetry collections and held positions as Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Birmingham Newman University and Leverhulme Research Fellow for 2021–22. She continues teaching at Northumbria University. Her work covers place, environment, and family heritage, and she curates ecopoetic exhibitions. Early life and education Burnett was born in Devon. Her mother is Kenyan while her father was born to a farming family in Ide, Devon. She studied English at Oxford, after which she attended Royal Holloway, University of London, to study for an MA and PhD in Contemporary Poetics. Burnett also studied performance at the Bowery Poetry Club in New York and Naropa. Career Burnet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sarah Perry
Sarah Grace Perry (born 28 November 1979) is an English author. She has had four novels published: ''After Me Comes the Flood'' (2014), '' The Essex Serpent'' (2016), ''Melmoth'' (2018) and ''Enlightenment'' (2024). Her work has been translated into 22 languages. She was appointed Chancellor of the University of Essex in July 2023, officially starting in this role on 1 August 2023. Early life and education Perry was born, the youngest of five sisters, in Chelmsford, Essex, into a family of devout Christians who were members of a Strict Baptist church. Growing up with almost no access to contemporary art, culture, and writing, she filled her time with classical music, classic novels and poetry, and church-related activities. She says this early immersion in old literature and the King James Bible profoundly influenced her writing style. She attended Chelmsford County High School for Girls. She married her husband Robert Perry at the age of 20. She graduated from Anglia Polytec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tahmima Anam
Tahmima Anam (; born 8 October 1975) is a Bangladeshi-born British writer, novelist and columnist. Her first novel, '' A Golden Age'' (2007), was the Best First Book winner of the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prizes. Her follow-up novel, '' The Good Muslim'', was nominated for the 2011 Man Asian Literary Prize. She is the granddaughter of Abul Mansur Ahmed and daughter of Mahfuz Anam. Early life Anam was born on 8 October 1975 in Dhaka to Mahfuz Anam and Shaheen Anam. At the age of 2, she moved to Paris when her parents joined UNESCO as employees. She grew up in Paris, New York, and Bangkok, where she learned the story of the Bangladesh Liberation War from her parents. Outspoken editor from Bangladesh Education At the age of 17, Anam received a scholarship for Mount Holyoke College, from which she graduated in 1997. She earned a PhD in anthropology from Harvard University in 2005 for her thesis "Fixing the Past: War, Violence, and Habitations of Memory in Post-Independence Ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Motion
Sir Andrew Peter Motion (born 26 October 1952) is an English poet, novelist, and biographer, who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship, Motion founded the Poetry Archive, an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work. In 2012, he became President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England, succeeding Bill Bryson. Early life Motion was born on 26 October 1952 in London, to (Andrew) Richard Michael Motion (1921-2006),''Essex Clay'', Andrew Motion, Faber and Faber, 2018, dedication page. a brewer at Ind Coope, and (Catherine) Gillian (née Bakewell; 1928–1978). Richard Motion was from a brewing dynasty; his grandfather founded Taylor Walker, but by Richard Motion's time this had been absorbed by Ind Coope. The Motion family were wealthy armigers who lived at Upton House, Banbury, Oxfordshire, and were prominent in the local area; Richard Motion's grandfather Andrew Richard Motion was a Justice of the Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
