British Council

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.

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...

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 .

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

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