Three UEA Creative Writing graduates have been shortlisted for the 2021 BBC Audio Drama Awards. Luke Wright, who graduated from the BA in English Literature with Creative Writing in 2003 is nominated in the Best Debut Performance category for Christabel. Janice Okoh (pictured), who graduated from the MA in Creative Writing (Scriptwriting) in 2008, is […]
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He Who Hears the Dreams (extract)
An extract from ‘He Who Hears the Dreams’ (Edition Nautilus, 2019) by Selim Özdogan translated from the German by Lina Briks Keeping distance from people. I thought it would help. It did help, it had helped for years. And now…I thought she was lying. What kind of story was that? You wouldn’t have believed […]
Foreword & Introduction to the MA in Literary Translation Anthology
Foreword by Cecilia Rossi Displacements What is the relationship between translation and place? Perhaps the most widely quoted definition of translation, especially when considering its etymology, is the one that implies a change of place, a movement across from one place to another, a carrying across of something from one point to another. But we […]
BCLT Translators in Residence: What Do We Translate?
What Do We Translate? William Gregory Last week, I was invited by AAT, the Spanish playwrights’ association, to join their translator-writer ‘speed-dating’ event. Many of the playwrights asked me what I was looking for. In other words, ‘what do I translate?’ Where to begin? First: what appeals to me, what speaks to me. But why […]
With a rootless lily held in front of him
The winner of the 2019 Plough Prize, ‘With a rootless lily held in front of him’ is taken from Heidi Williamson’s 2020 Bloodaxe collection Return by Minor Road. Like someone stepping slowly ahead of an old-fashioned car, or the person tasked with carrying the country’s Olympic flame, he must hold the lily as he walks, […]
Three poems from Mock Orange
Three poems from Anne Osbourn’s first book of poetry, Mock Orange, published by SPM Publications in September 2020 My Mother, Age Thirteen Suffocating The cheap stench of privet and Mrs Baldwin’s perfume, as she pulls the lanky girl bosomwards and cuddles her tight. The girl knows she’s welcome round there in the […]
Monique Roffey wins Costa Best Novel Award
The Mermaid of Black Conch by UEA alumna Monique Roffey has won the Novel category of the 2020 Costa Book Awards. It was published by Peepal Tree Press in March last year. Monique was born in Trinidad and graduated from the English Literature BA programme at UEA in 1987. Her first novel Sun Dog was published in 2002. The […]
Spring Journal: Canto IX
A canto taken from Jonathan Gibbs’s book-length poem Spring Journal, a response to the coronavirus pandemic originally written on Twitter, and modelled on Louis MacNeice’s 1939 poem Autumn Journal. “Now we are back to normal, now the mind is ….Back to the even tenor of the usual day Skidding no longer across the uneasy […]
Corona Diaries: In Came the Rona
It starts out as a distant fear in December 2019, a virus, COVID19 or something like that, is ravaging Asian countries, millions of people contacting the flu, thousands dying… then it spread to Italy… locked down Italians are playing beautiful music, you shrug and enjoy the entertainment, with tears in your eyes. Then the United […]
Winter Snow and Pink Champagne: a translator’s letter home from the Nuremberg War Trials
‘This is an extraordinary place,’ 21-year-old Patricia Crampton, then Patricia Wood, writes of Nuremberg, Southern Germany to her parents in England, in a letter postmarked 5 December 1947. She describes leaving work at 5.30pm in the last stages of a bright and sunny November day, yet by 6pm it is completely dark and snowing. Back […]