Poetry & Prose
Poetry and Prose Readings at the Octagon
John Lucas and Tony Rudolf
8th February 2010
7.30
Hospitality Room
John Lucas is Professor Emeritus at the Universities of Loughborough and Nottingham Trent. He is the author of many scholarly and critical works, including studies of Dickens, John Clare, Arnold Bennett, Ivor Gurney and several books on English poetry, Romantic and Modern writing. His translations of the poems of Egils Saga are an Everyman Modern Classic.
He has published several books of poetry, About Nottingham (1971), Studying Grosz on the Bus (1989), Flying to Romania (1992), One for the Piano (1997), On the Track (2000), A World Perhaps (2002) and The Long and the Short of It (2004). Flute Music is his latest collection.
He has played cornet with many jazz groups in the Nottingham area, where he has lived since 1964. He runsShoestring Press| .
Born in London in 1942, Anthony Rudolf is the author of books of literary criticism, autobiography and poetry (The Same River Twice. He also translates French and Russian as well as editing various anthologies. His essay on R.B. Kitaj was published by the National Gallery in 2001, and he has published essays on other painters. He is Paula Rego's partner and main male model. He has completed a volume of short stories and is now at work on two new memoirs. His reviews, articles, poems, translations, obituaries and interviews with writers have appeared in numerous journals. Rudolf is an occasional broadcaster on radio and television and founder of Menard Press. He became Visiting Lecturer in Arts and Humanities at London Metropolitan University (2000-2003) and Royal Literary Fund fellow at the Universities of Hertfordshire and Westminster (2003-2008) and in 2005, he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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Rebecca Goss and Tiffany Atkinson
22nd February 2010
7.30
Hospitality Room
Born in 1974, Rebecca Goss grew up in Suffolk and now lives in Liverpool. Her pamphlet collection Keeping Houston Time was published by Slow Dancer Press in 1997.
She has an MA in Creative Writing from Cardiff University and was winner of the North West Arts young writer's bursary 1997/98. She taught creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University for several years.
Her poems have appeared in many literary magazines and her work can be found in various anthologies including Images of Women, an anthology of contemporary female poets, and two anthologies of contemporary poetry: In the Telling and The Poets Perspective.
Two of her poems have been made into 'poem-films' for Comma Film, a Literature North West project run in conjunction with Comma Press, dedicated to collaborations between local filmmakers and writers.
Tiffany Atkinson was born in Berlin in 1972 to an army family, and lived in Germany, Cyprus and Britain. After studying English at Birmingham University she started a PhD in 1993 at Cardiff University in Critical Theory, researching Contemporary Writing and Theories of the Body. Tiffany has lived in Wales ever since. She lectures in English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, where she also co–hosts a weekly poems and–pints event. Her poetry has appeared widely in magazines.
Her current critical and theoretical projects include a volume of essays for Macmillan on Theories of the Body, and a monograph concerned with Contemporary Theories of Identity.
She has toured widely in Eastern Europe for the British Council, leading both writers' workshops and academic seminars. Tiffany won the BBC Radio Young Poet of the Year Competition in 1993 and 1994, and the Ottakar's and Faber Poetry Competition in 2000. Her poetry has been published in Poetry Life, Sampler and The Telegraph. Her latest title Kink and Particle (Seren, 2006) won the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Award 2007. It is also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation.