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Wing (poetry Collection)
''Wing'' is a 2020 poetry collection written by Matthew Francis. It is Francis' seventh poetry collection and eleventh book. It received positive reviews in '' The London Magazine'' and '' The Guardian''. Contents ''Wing'' is a collection of 36 poems, divided into three sections, each containing twelve poems. Every section follows a different general theme. Freefall ''Freefall'' is a series of semi-autobiographical poems focusing on nature and the natural world. * Longhouse Autumn * Mere * Waterbear * Frog, Crow * Sandwich Tern * Ladybird Summer * A Charm for Earwigs * Typewriter * Clock * Monomoon * A Dream of Cornwall * Freefall Micrographia ''Micrographia'' is a series of poems inspired by the scientific experiments of Robert Hooke (1665) * The Microscope * Ice, Snow * Sand, Gravel * Fishscale, Feather * Moss, Mould * Nettle, Bee-Sting * Wings of a Fly * Silverfish, Moth * Ant * Flea, Louse * Mealybug Nymphs, Gossamer * Creature Canticles ''Canticles'' is a se ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthew Francis (poet)
Matthew Francis (born 20 November 1956 in Hampshire, United Kingdom) is a British poet, editor of W. S. Graham's ''New Collected Poems'', and a professor at the Aberystwyth University. His status as a contemporary British poet is well known. In 2004, Francis was included on the Poetry Book Society's list of the 20 best modern poets as selected by a panel chaired by poet laureate Andrew Motion. He is revered for his impressive wordplay and sharp imagination, and his beautifully elegant phrasing makes him a very popular poet. Personal life Francis lived in Winchester for many years. He worked for ten years in the computer industry. After his time spent in the computer industry, he went back to university to study the work of W. S. Graham. Soon after he edited Graham's ''New Collected Poems'' and authored a study on Graham called ''Where the People Are''. He now lives in Wales with his wife, Creina, where he lectures in creative writing at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The London Magazine
''The London Magazine'' is the title of six different publications that have appeared in succession since 1732. All six have focused on the arts, literature and miscellaneous topics. 1732–1785 ''The London Magazine, or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer'' was founded in 1732 in political opposition and rivalry to the Tory-supporting ''Gentleman's Magazine'' and ran for 53 years until its closure in 1785. Edward Kimber became editor in 1755, succeeding his father Isaac Kimber. Henry Mayo was editor from 1775 to 1783. Publishers included Thomas Astley. 1820–1829 In 1820 the ''London Magazine'' was resurrected by the publishers Baldwin, Craddock & Joy under the editorship of John Scott who formatted the magazine along the lines of the Edinburgh publication ''Blackwood's Magazine''. It was during this time that the magazine published poems by William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Clare and John Keats. In September 1821 the first of two instalments of Thomas De Quinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sport .... It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust Limited, Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faber And Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel Beckett, Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, Milan Kundera, and Kazuo Ishiguro. Founded in 1929, in 2006 the company was named the KPMG Publisher of the Year. Faber and Faber Inc., formerly the American branch of the London company, was sold in 1998 to the Holtzbrinck company Farrar, Straus and Giroux (FSG). Faber and Faber ended the partnership with FSG in 2015 and began distributing its books directly in the United States. History Faber and Faber began as a firm in 1929, but originates in the Scientific Press, owned by Sir Maurice and Lady Gwyer. The Scientific Press derived much of its income from the weekly magazine ''The Nursing Mirror.'' The Gwyers' desire to expand into trade publishing led them to Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hooke
Robert Hooke FRS (; 18 July 16353 March 1703) was an English polymath active as a scientist, natural philosopher and architect, who is credited to be one of two scientists to discover microorganisms in 1665 using a compound microscope that he built himself, the other scientist being Antoni van Leeuwenhoek in 1676. An impoverished scientific inquirer in young adulthood, he found wealth and esteem by performing over half of the architectural surveys after London's great fire of 1666. Hooke was also a member of the Royal Society and since 1662 was its curator of experiments. Hooke was also Professor of Geometry at Gresham College. As an assistant to physical scientist Robert Boyle, Hooke built the vacuum pumps used in Boyle's experiments on gas law, and himself conducted experiments. In 1673, Hooke built the earliest Gregorian telescope, and then he observed the rotations of the planets Mars and Jupiter. Hooke's 1665 book '' Micrographia'', in which he coined the term " cell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matsuo Bashō
born then was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan. During his lifetime, Bashō was recognized for his works in the collaborative '' haikai no renga'' form; today, after centuries of commentary, he is recognized as the greatest master of haiku (then called hokku). He is also well known for his travel essays beginning with '' Records of a Weather-Exposed Skeleton'' (1684), written after his journey west to Kyoto and Nara. Matsuo Bashō's poetry is internationally renowned, and, in Japan, many of his poems are reproduced on monuments and traditional sites. Although Bashō is famous in the West for his hokku, he himself believed his best work lay in leading and participating in renku. He is quoted as saying, "Many of my followers can write hokku as well as I can. Where I show who I really am is in linking haikai verses." Bashō was introduced to poetry at a young age, and after integrating himself into the intellectual scene of Edo (modern Tokyo) he quickly became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dafydd Ap Gwilym
Dafydd ap Gwilym ( 1315/1320 – 1350/1370) is regarded as one of the leading Welsh poets and amongst the great poets of Europe in the Middle Ages. Life R. Geraint Gruffydd suggests 1315- 1350 as the poet's dates; others place him a little later from 1320- 1370. Later tradition has it that Dafydd was born at Brogynin, Penrhyn-coch (at the time Llanbadarn Fawr parish), Ceredigion. His father, Gwilym Gam, and mother, Ardudfyl, were both from noble families. As one of noble birth it seems Dafydd did not belong to the guild of professional poets in medieval Wales, and yet the poetic tradition had been strong in his family for generations. According to R. Geraint Gruffydd he died in 1350, a possible victim of the Black Death. Tradition says that he was buried within the precinct of the Cistercian Strata Florida Abbey, Ceredigion. This burial location is disputed by supporters of the Talley Abbey theory who contend that burial took place in the Talley Abbey Churchyard: On Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Barnie
John Barnie is a poet, essayist and editor from Abergavenny in South Wales. He was a lecturer in the University of Copenhagen from 1969 until 1982. Following his return to Wales he was appointed assistant editor of the magazine '' Planet: The Welsh Internationalist'' and took over as editor in 1990 until 2006. He is a prolific poet with collections from various presses, most recently Cinnamon Press and won an Arts Council of Wales Prize for Literature in 1990 with his essay collection ''The King of Ashes''. A recent project with the Oxford Museum of Natural History based on his ''A Report to Alpha Centauri'' focuses on his concern for Nature and environmental issues. Reviewers of his work have noted his interest in paleoanthropology and his pessimism about the evolutionary path taken by humans. But they have also identified a wry humour in the presentation of this theme in his poetry and a counter to an apparently misanthropic stance in his positive affirmation of the natur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sheenagh Pugh
Sheenagh Pugh (born 20 December 1950) is a British poet, novelist and translator who writes in English. Her book, ''Stonelight'' (1999) won the Wales Book of the Year award. Pugh was born in Birmingham. She was a creative writer educator at the University of Glamorgan until her retirement. She has written several poetry collections, and two novels. She has also written ''The Democratic Genre: fan fiction in a literary context'' (2005), a literary study of fan fiction. Life Pugh was born in Birmingham. She studied languages at the University of Bristol. She now lives in Shetland but lived for many years in Cardiff and taught creative writing at the University of Glamorgan until retiring in 2008. Her collection of poetry, ''Stonelight'' (1999) won the Wales Book of the Year award in 2000. She has twice won the Cardiff International Poetry Competition. Her collection of poetry ''The Beautiful Lie'' (Seren, 2002) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and the collection ''The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wales Arts Review
''Wales Arts Review'' is a critical writing hub for Wales. Originally published fortnightly, the site has published daily since 2016. It offers a critique, by Welsh and Wales-based writers, of various social and cultural aspects of Wales. History The ''Wales Arts Review'' was founded in 2012 by Editors Gary Raymond, Phil Morris, Dean Lewis and Dylan Moore as a successor to the literary magazine ''The Raconteur''. Founded on the principal of providing a community of writers and artists a high quality critical coverage of the arts in Wales, its core function is to build a platform for a new generation of Welsh critics to engage with the wider world through writing about and vigorously debating books, theatre, film, music, the visual arts and the media. In partnership with Wales Arts International, the Welsh Books Council and the Arts Council of Wales, ''Wales Arts Review'' has quickly established itself in a central role in the new Welsh culture of arts criticism. Features '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
