John Lucas and Tony Rudolf

Poetry and Prose Readings at the Octagon

8 February 2010

John Lucas and Tony Rudolf

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.