British Council

JK has done a good deal of professional travelling. In September 2003 she went to Nigeria (Abuja, Kano, and Lagos) to read her poetry on a tour for the British Council

Her travels include trips undertaken for the British Council , to Singapore to be writer in residence (1993) and to Tromsø in Norway.

She has also held an academic appointment in Sydney, Australia, and travelled for research purposes to Chamonix in the French Alps, to the Pyrenees, and to opera performances in Germany. In...

CB gave readings and workshops for the British Council in Mumbai (formerly Bombay), India, about her experiences writing poetry for the web.

The first visit was a lecture tour arranged by the British Council . West returned with her husband in late March of the following year for a two-month tour of what are now Croatia...

WC travelled to Amman in Jordan to give readings under the auspices of the British Council .

HD visited Berlin on a poetry-reading tour by Bloodaxe Books authors, sponsored by the British Council .

The first trilogy draws on OM 's experience of the early years of the Second World War in eastern Europe. In both trilogies, British national concerns are disconcertingly filtered through people whose priorities and loyalties...

Throughout the 1980s HD gave many readings of her works: at literary festivals, and at schools, colleges, libraries, clubs, and prisons. Her poetry was also featured on BBC radio (several different programmes) and television. As...

BE and Maggie Gee jointly edited NW15: The Anthology of New Writing Volume 15 (in a series whose titles have seen several changes), published through Granta and the British Council .

Her author statement for the British Council website says that poetry is a conversation—with my parents, with myself, with the living, with the dead, with friends, with strangers, and perhaps with words themselves.

She appeared with six other poets in Portfolio no. 3 from London's Steam Press in 1979 (an actual portfolio of separate leaves, published in fifty signed and numbered copies, in a black cover with illustrations...

EB published English Novelists, one in a series of literary guides issued by the British Council .

Meanwhile in 1993 MW produced for the British Council a slim volume entitled Drama Today: A Critical Guide to British Drama, 1970-1990.

MG thanks many individuals and institutions (including the British Council ) for enabling her to amass considerable first-hand experience of Uganda in order to write this book. She contributed an article, A different view...