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Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Sarah Kane | Kane used this pseudonym to conceal her identity, first at a lunchtime reading and then at the Traverse Theatre, in an attempt to cast off her reputation for obscenity and violence. The programme included a... |
Performance of text | Sylvia Kantaris | Most of the poems were written in Cornwall, which is a strong presence in the volume. Many had already appeared in periodicals: in Australia, Spain, and in the Anglo-Welsh Review as well... |
Textual Production | Jackie Kay | JK
wrote Twice Through the Heart, a poetry documentary for BBC
2 based on the life of Amelia Rossiter
, a woman jailed for killing her abusive husband. Kay, Jackie. Other Lovers. Bloodaxe Books. prelims |
Family and Intimate relationships | Jackie Kay | In her memoirs JK
mentions her partner Denise Else
, who is on good terms with Duffy and her daughter. Else works as a sound technician with the BBC
. Kay, Jackie. Red Dust Road. Pan Macmillan. 123, 177-8 Rustin, Susanna. “A Life in Writing. Jackie Kay Interview”. The Guardian, pp. Review 12 - 13. Review 13 |
Textual Production | Jackie Kay | The collection, dedicated to JK
's adoptive mother, was published by Bloodaxe Books
in Newcastle upon Tyne, with a photograph of human chromosomes on the cover. Kay, Jackie. The Adoption Papers. Bloodaxe Books. prelims Kay, Jackie. Off Colour. Bloodaxe Books. back cover |
Performance of text | Jackie Kay | |
Reception | Jackie Kay | Lesley McDowell
, reviewing the book in the Times Literary Supplement, called JKone of our most notable and challenging poets. “The Knitting Circle”. London South Bank University: Lesbian and Gay Staff Association. Kay, Jackie. Off Colour. Bloodaxe Books. prelims |
Textual Production | Jackie Kay | JK
continues to publish stories in periodicals: for instance Wish I was here, commissioned for Guardian, 2 August 2003. Kay, Jackie. “Wish I was here”. Guardian Weekly, pp. 50-3. 50 Kay, Jackie. “Short story endings”. Mslexia, Vol. 20 , pp. 44-5. 45 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Kennedy | In The Heroes of Clone Kennedy uses a present-day frame story, and the different interpretations of twentieth-century commentators, to present a mid-Victorian woman writer, Dorothea Harding, who used a frame story to convey a tale... |
Occupation | Mary Kingsley | MK
helped to initiate the Royal African Society
, which was founded in her name in 1901 just after her death. Today the Society's website offers a biography and some striking pictures of MK
... |
Performance of text | Philip Larkin | Still struggling, PL
published in 1954 an untitled leaflet of poems with the Fantasy Press
of Eynsham in Oxfordshire (number 21 of their Fantasy Poets). His poems were also by this time being read... |
Textual Production | Marghanita Laski | With Claud Cockburn
, Cyril Connolly
, Kenneth Tynan
, Peter Forster
, Wynford Vaughan Thomas
, and Steven Watson
, ML
co-wrote the script for the BBC
television comedy series Dig This Rhubarb. Lewisohn, Mark. “Dig This Rhubarb”. The bbc.co.uk Guide to Comedy. |
Cultural formation | Marghanita Laski | Though ML
grew up in the Jewish tradition, in a childhood faith which she later described with warmth but with some later distance, she became in time a self-professed and publicly-acknowledged atheist. Her journey from... |
politics | Marghanita Laski | The committee had been convened by the Labour government after a long gestation. Its various recommendations included continuing the BBC
licence fee, setting up a fourth television channel, and keeping strict curbs on commercial television... |
Textual Production | Marghanita Laski |
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