Northumberland is a ceremonial county in North East England,bordering Scotland. It is bordered by the Scottish Borders to the north,the North Sea to the east,Tyne and Wear and County Durham to the south,and Cumbria to the west. The town of Blyth is the largest settlement. Northumberland is the northernmost county in England.
Basil Cheesman Bunting was a British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of Briggflatts in 1966,generally regarded as one of the major achievements of the modernist tradition in English. He had a lifelong interest in music that led him to emphasise the sonic qualities of poetry,particularly the importance of reading poetry aloud:he was an accomplished reader of his own work.
The British Poetry Revival is the general name now given to a loose movement in the United Kingdom that took place in the late 1960s and 1970s. The term was a neologism first used in 1964,postulating a New British Poetry to match the anthology The New American Poetry (1960) edited by Donald Allen.
Tom Pickard is a poet,and documentary film maker who was an important initiator of the movement known as the British Poetry Revival.
Wylam is a village and civil parish in the county of Northumberland,England. It is located about 10 miles (16 km) west of Newcastle upon Tyne.
Stuart John Maconie is an English radio DJ and television presenter,writer,journalist,and critic working in the field of pop music and popular culture. He is a presenter on BBC Radio 6 Music where,alongside Mark Radcliffe,he hosts its weekend breakfast show which broadcasts from the BBC's MediaCityUK in Salford. The pair previously presented an evening show on BBC Radio 2 and the weekday afternoon show for BBC Radio 6 Music.
The Story of the Amulet is a novel for children,written in 1906 by the English author Edith Nesbit.
Briggflatts is a long poem by Basil Bunting published in 1966. The work is subtitled "An Autobiography". The title "Briggflatts" comes from the name of Brigflatts Meeting House,a Quaker Friends meeting house near Sedbergh in Cumbria,England. Bunting visited Brigflatts as a schoolboy when the family of one of his schoolfriends lived there,and it was at this time that he developed a strong attachment to his friend's sister,Peggy Greenbank,to whom the poem is dedicated. It was first read in public on 22 December 1965 in the medieval Morden Tower,part of Newcastle town wall,and published in 1966 by Fulcrum Press. Bunting also wrote another poem with "Briggflatts" in its title,the short work "At Briggflatts meetinghouse" (1975).
Benjamin Myers FRSL is an English writer and journalist.
Madeleine Clare J. Bunting is an English writer. She was formerly an associate editor and columnist at The Guardian newspaper. She has written five works of non-fiction and two novels. She is a regular broadcaster for the BBC. Her most recent series of essays for BBC Radio 3 was on the idea of Home,and broadcast in March 2020. Previous series of essays include 'Are You Paying Attention?' (2018) 'The Crisis of Care' (2016) and 'The Retreating Roar' (2014) on the loss of faith.
The Morden Tower in Back Stowell Street on the West Walls of Newcastle upon Tyne,England,is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade 1 listed building. Since June 1964,Connie Pickard has been custodian of Morden Tower,and has made it a key fixture of Newcastle's alternative cultural life,with the building hosting music and poetry events often funded by Pickard.
Adelle Stripe is an English writer and journalist.
Queen Elizabeth High School (QEHS) is a coeducational high school and sixth form located in Hexham,Northumberland,England.
The Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle is a Latin Church diocese of the Catholic Church,centred on St Mary's Cathedral in the city of Newcastle upon Tyne in England. The diocese is one of the six suffragan sees in the ecclesiastical Province of Liverpool and covers the historic boundaries of County Durham and Northumberland.
Owen Hatherley is a British writer and journalist based in London who writes primarily on architecture,politics and culture.
Newcastle upon Tyne born author and poet Keith Armstrong has been and remains an inescapable figure in the creative life of North East England.
Tariq Goddard is a British novelist and publisher. He has written seven novels,the first of which Homage to a Firing Squad,was short-listed for the Whitbread Book Award for First Novel. He founded,and was the publisher of the independent publishing companies Zero Books and Repeater Books.
Marcus O'Dair is an English writer,musician/manager,broadcaster and lecturer. He is most notable for his work as part of the band Grasscut,described by Clash magazine as "genuinely daring electronica artists". He is also notable for his 2015 biography of musician Robert Wyatt,a book described in the London Review of Books as "fascinating".
Mark Fisher,also known under his blogging alias k-punk,was an English writer,music critic,political and cultural theorist,philosopher,and teacher based in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths,University of London. He initially achieved acclaim for his blogging as k-punk in the early 2000s,and was known for his writing on radical politics,music,and popular culture.
Repeater Books is a publishing imprint based in London,founded in 2014 by Tariq Goddard and Mark Fisher,formerly the founders of radical publishers Zero Books,along with Etan Ilfeld,Tamar Shlaim,Alex Niven and Matteo Mandarini. It was launched by Watkins Media.
