British Council

As a writer she was an assiduous attender of literary festivals, a virtuoso reader of her own and other authors' work. She tells a story from her whoring or book-promotion days of sitting beside Edna O'Brien

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.

In 2004 she conducted a creative workshop in Karachi for the five winners of a national writing competition sponsored by the British Council in Pakistan for the I Belong International Story Chain project. Among these...

JS was, with Helen Dunmore , U. A. Fanthorpe , and Elizabeth Jennings , one of the four poets featured in no. 5 of the audio-cassette series The Poetry Quartets, issued today by the...

AS called her next poetry volume Four and A Half Dancing Men; its title poem had appeared in the British Council 's anthology New Writing 2 earlier the same year.

AS has continued to contribute poems to many of the available outlets: journals like PN Review, the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement, Poetry Wales, Poetry Ireland, The...

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

It was published by Longmans, Green for the British Council and the National Book League .

Her heritage is multicultural. She calls herself French-American, as her American parents raised her in a village near St-Jean-de-Luz, in the Basque region of France. She commented in one interview that although she has...

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...