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Six years in the making … a complete change in direction for me as a writer, a move to a new publisher, a physical change of location and a book with the reader at its centre. It couldn’t be a bigger departure for me. The Depature by Chris Emery ISBN 9781907773150 Hardback 80pp [...] Biography My parents were professors of biochemistry so I decided to be a writer. I wrote my first story when I was thirteen, and after the teacher read it out loud in class, I began to take myself very seriously. I imagined the life of Hemingway. I never considered that writing required so [...] Biography Born in Glasgow in 1945, I grew up in Edinburgh and went to George Heriot’s School. After a short spell working for an Insurance company, I joined the Civil Service in London. Shuffling files around was not my thing though so I took up a place at Aberdeen University where I studied [...] 19th April 6.30 p.m. till 8.30 p.m. Launch of Chris Emery’s third collection of poetry, The Departure, at The Book Hive, 53 London Street, Norwich, NR2 1HL
SOPHIE COLLINS grew up in Holland and moved to London in 2007 to study Creative Writing at Goldsmiths College. Her poems have appeared [...] Biography I grew up in a small town in Ireland when money was tight, jobs were scarce, and there were only two TV channels. Books were my salvation. The local library was where I found most of my reading material. I zipped through the children’s books and used my mother’s library ticket [...] ‘On the Threshold’ — Wells Poetry Festival May 11th–13th Friday, May 11th 7.30 p.m. JOHN SIDDIQUE and Jehane Markham Saturday, May 12th 9.30 a.m. School’s Event 11.30 a.m. Poets published by Salt Publishing, Cromer PENNY BOXALL, TIM COCKBURN, CHARLOTTE GEATER & MERYL PUGH 2.00 p.m. Jean Sprackland & Matthew Hollis 5.00 p.m. Matthew Hollis gives [...] Biography Learning to read is the most exciting thing that has ever happened to me; it may also be the reason for my extreme short-sightedness. As a child, I spent night after night squinting my way through Enid Blyton books, their pages lit by the ribbon of light that ran across the bottom [...] Biography I was born in Manchester in 1971. We moved away when I was little and I grew up a few miles from where I live now, near Nottingham. When I was 8, my mum encouraged me to submit a poem to the Charnwood Arts Writing Competition. The poem was a deeply philosophical [...] Biography I grew up in San Diego, although I am not the typical California girl you are probably imagining. But yes, my high school did offer SURF as a class. It was customary to see people at the grocery in their bathing suits and bare feet. We did know our neighbors by what [...] Biography I’m a native of Mississippi, and while I’ve lived in a number of different places, still consider myself primarily a Mississippian. After finishing university, I moved to the UK where I pursued graduate work both in poetry, in Edinburgh, and in archaeology, in Cambridge. My heart is in poetry, but [...] |
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