Kennedy, Maev. “Booker winner Bernice Rubens dies”. Guardian Unlimited.
Arvon Foundation
Connections
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Textual Production | P. D. James | In connection with teaching for the Arvon Foundation
in the 1990s, PDJ
sometimes let her creative spirit run wild. For the closing Friday night of one course she wrote a poem for reading aloud (about... |
Textual Production | Kate Clanchy | KC
never cherished any idea of being a writer. She says that it was not until much later in life that she began to think seriously about pursuing her own writing. A long-time poetry reader... |
Textual Production | Anne Stevenson | With Amy Clampitt
and Craig Raine
, AS
selected and edited for the Arvon Foundation
the 1985 Anthology of poems from the Observer and Ronald Duncan Foundation International Poetry Competition. This anthology appeared in 1987... |
Occupation | Bernice Rubens | As a writer she was an assiduous attender of literary festivals, a virtuoso reader of her own and other authors' work. |
Occupation | Penelope Shuttle | PS
has tutored for the Arvon Foundation
. In 2007 she acted as judge for the annual National Poetry Competition
(eagerly contemplating the possibility of a new discovery in poetry), and served as chair of... |
Occupation | Catherine Byron | CB
also does freelance work and various community projects. She has been a member of the Arvon Foundation
, the major provider of residential courses for writers in Britain, since 1994; for three years she... |
Occupation | Anne Stevenson | She has since taught at the Arvon
and other poetry foundations. Contemporary Authors, Autobiography Series. Gale Research. 9: 287 |
Occupation | Gillian Clarke | At the time of her move from Cardiff to Blaen Cwrt, GC
was appointed Creative Writing Fellow at St David's University College
in Lampeter, Wales, a post sponsored by the Welsh Arts Council
... |
Occupation | Helen Dunmore | HD
has taught at the University of Glamorgan
and Bristol University
and for the Arvon Foundation
, and held a Writer-in-Residence position at the then Polytechnic of Wales
in 1990 as well as in many... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Maggie Gee | MG
had worked on dramatic techniques on an Arvon
course in 2009; Gebbie, Vanessa. “Crossing the Divide”. Mslexia, Vol. 68 , pp. 15-17. 17 Gebbie, Vanessa. “Crossing the Divide”. Mslexia, Vol. 68 , pp. 15-17. 16 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Helen Dunmore | |
Intertextuality and Influence | Kate Clanchy | KC
's second Arvon
course was taught by Simon Armitage
, who had recently become the poetry editor at Chatto and Windus
. Armitage offered KC
a chance to publish. This led to the appearance... |
Friends, Associates | Ruth Fainlight | The friendship of herself and her husband with Ted Hughes
survived Plath's death. RF
later remembered Hughes and Assia Wevill
sharing their wretchedness in the weeks immediately after the catastrophe, but remembered also making Assia... |
Employer | Frances Horovitz | In the mid-1960s FH
began teaching English and drama part-time to boost her income. She taught at a number of different London schools, including Carlyle Grammar School for Girls
in Fulham. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Employer | Bryony Lavery | She spent two years as writer-in-residence for the Unicorn Theatre for Children
, has tutored for Arvon
writing courses, and is a director, with John Retallack
, of the Performing Arts Labs
(playwriting). “Biographies: Bryony Lavery”. MCC’s Last Easter - Full Casting Announced. |
Timeline
Late August 1968: Two poets, John Moat and John Fairfax, launched...
Writing climate item
Late August 1968
Two poets, John Moat
and John Fairfax
, launched the Arvon Foundation
with a poetry course at Beaford Arts Centre
(in a Victorian house in rural north Devon). Ted Hughes
was guest reader on this course.
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