Two graduates of the 2010-11 Creative Writing (Poetry) MA at UEA have been shortlisted for this year’s Poetry School Pighog Poetry Pamphlet Competition. Julia Webb is nominated for ‘Bird Sisters’, and Mona Arshi for ‘Small Hands’. They have been selected from over 600 entrants. The winning pamphlet will be announced on 26th June and will […]
Archives for May 2014
Owen Sheers shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year
UEA alumnus Owen Sheers has been shortlisted for the 2014 Wales Book of the Year Award. ‘Pink Mist’, published by Faber & Faber, is one of three titles in contention in the English-language Roland Mathias Poetry Award category, which will be announced on 10th July. Each category winner will receive a prize of £2,000, and […]
Four Back Translations of George Oppen’s “Of Being Numerous”
“Untitled” 1 There are things, items, objects, among which we live, and to see them We know them A unique case, A series without limit, The sorrowful marvels; From what has been Told There is a story of our wickedness, Which is not about our wickedness ‘Do you remember a long […]
‘From A Distance’ by Raffaella Barker
‘From A Distance’ is the new novel by UEA Creative Writing tutor Raffaella Barker and is published by Bloomsbury this week. Raffaella was born in London and grew up in Norfolk, where she still lives. She is the eldest daughter of the poet George Barker and the novelist Elspeth Barker, and is the author of […]
UEA alumni and students nominated for Saboteur Awards
Five UEA students and alumni have been nominated for this year’s Saboteur awards. In the ‘Best Anthology’ category they are Lynne Bryan (MA 1985) and Bel Greenwood (MA 2005), editors of ‘Words & Women One’ (Unthank Books), and Katy Darby (MA 2006), editor (with Cherry Potts) of ‘Weird Lies’ (Arachne Press). Katy Darby is also […]
C.J. Flood shortlisted for Branford Boase Award
‘Infinite Sky’, the debut Young Adult novel by UEA alumna C.J. (Chelsey) Flood, has included on the shortlist of seven titles in the running for the 2014 Branford Boase Award. The award is worth £1,000 to the author of the year’s outstanding debut children’s novel. Chelsey obtained a BA in English from the University of […]