‘The Dancing and the Death on Lemon Street’ by UEA alumnus Denis Hirson has been shortlisted for the 2012 Commonwealth Book Prize. Denis (pictured) gained his PhD in Creative and Critical Writing from UEA in 2004. Born in South
Africa and now …
Archives for April 2012
Adam Foulds and Sam Byers in’Britain’ issue of Granta
Two UEA writers are included in the latest issue of Granta, the magazine of new writing, whose theme is ‘Britain’. ‘Some Other Katherine’ by Sam Byers is an extract from his debut novel ‘Idiopathy’, which will be published by Fourth Est…
Anne Enright shortlisted for Orange Prize
UEA Creative Writing alumna Anne Enright has been shortlisted for this year’s Orange Prize for
Fiction for her fifth novel ‘The Forgotten Waltz’, which was published by Jonathan Cape last year. Anne (pictured) graduated from the Creative Wri…
Philip Langeskov in The Warwick Review
‘Marta’, a new short story by UEA writer Philip Langeskov, appears in the latest issue of The Warwick Review, the journal of the University of Warwick’s Creative Writing programme, edited by Michael Hulse. Philip (pictured) was born in Copenh…
‘Is There an East Anglian literature?’
Jeremy Page investigates whether there is such a thing as a cohesive East Anglian literature.
4 Poems
Four translations from UEA PhD candidate, Philip Wilson.
Tulle, reed, paper, silk
Tulle, reed, paper, silk, gauze, bombazine, but Leonardo’s wings could never fly Angels exist in poems or in paintings where they do not stir and yet they are astir He opened humans up he opened up the birds compared then realized it couldn’t be Yet still: tulle, reed, paper, silk, gauze, bombazine sliding through his […]
This rain
A translation of the poem by Necip Fazıl Kısakürek in collaboration with the THREADS group.
I Cannot Speak
A translation of a poem by Orhan Veli Kanik.
From Another Hill / City
two translations of From Another Hill by Yahya Kemal Beyatlı From Another Hill I looked from the top of a high hill at you – Istanbul. I’ve never seen, never walked in, never known such a place. Be at the throne of my heart as long as you live – your smallest districts and wards, worth a […]