David Rain 1961-2015
...at the University of Adelaide, where he acquired a PhD in English literature for a dissertation on the 18th-century novelist Samuel Richardson. He lived in Britain and Ireland from 1990...
Alexander Hutchison 1943-2015
...perennial, was composed in the early seventies and drew praise from Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Michael Ondaatje. It was included in Hutchison’s first collection, Deep-Tap Tree (University of Massachusetts Press, 1978),...
Tessa Ransford, OBE 1938-2015
Tessa Ransford was an established poet, translator, literary editor, reviewer and cultural activist on many fronts for over 40 years, having also worked as founder and director of the Scottish...
Bridge
...or work. Conceived by Consultant Fellow Katie Grant, and developed and funded by the RLF, the workshops are run by experienced professional writers who have worked with students in universities...
The Early Years
...delivered a third novel to my editor, and he felt, quite rightly, that the novel needed a major rewrite. I was worried about this, but hoped I’d find a way....
Helen Grant
...first novel, The Vanishing of Katharina Linden, was published by Penguin in 2009; it was shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal and the Booktrust Teenage prize, and won an ALA...
Beth Miller
Beth Miller is a novelist and nonfiction writer. Her first two novels were When We Were Sisters (Ebury, 2014) and The Good Neighbour (Ebury, 2015). More recently she’s published The...
Ed Harris
...spent one winter as a husky trainer in Lapland. Ed’s first major play Mongrel Island opened at Soho Theatre in 2011 to great critical acclaim, and was later produced in...
America’s Last High Modernist
...Gewanter he co-edited the Collected Poems of Robert Lowell (2003). He is unapologetically American and ashamed of America. A master of the long poem, his eleven collections engage deeply with...
Jonathan Buckley
...an MA in modernism. From there he moved to King’s College, London, where he researched the work of the Scottish poet/artist Ian Hamilton Finlay. He then worked as a bookshop...