British Council

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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.

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

She regularly gives readings of her work, for instance at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival on 29 May 2001. She is Professor of creative writing at the University of East Anglia (having previously been Visiting Fellow...

After her two years in London, MR spent some months of 1973-4 working in Bangkok as a librarian for the British Council . She had applied for the job on impulse, almost whimsically, and quickly...

She followed it with a brief study of Coleridge done for the British Council in 1953 (one of the Bibliographical Supplements to British Book News), and with a critical Introduction to his selected Poems...

The book was published for the British Council and the National Book League . There were later a number of revised editions.

This novel won the British Council Darwin Now award.