Related Research Articles
The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each year by the Society of Authors. Set up by William Somerset Maugham in 1947 the awards enable young writers to enrich their work by gaining experience in foreign countries. The awards go to writers under the age of 30 with works published in the year before the award; the work can be either non-fiction, fiction or poetry. Since 1964 multiple winners have usually been chosen in the same year. In 1975 and in 2012 the award was not given.
Jacqueline Margaret Kay,, is a Scottish poet, playwright, and novelist, known for her works Other Lovers (1993), Trumpet (1998) and Red Dust Road (2011). Kay has won many awards, including the Guardian Fiction Prize in 1998 and the Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust Book of the Year Award in 2011.
Caitríona O'Reilly is an Irish poet and critic.
Kathleen Jamie FRSL is a Scottish poet and essayist. In 2021 she became Scotland's fourth Makar.
Julia Copus FRSL is a British poet, biographer and children's writer.
Sean O'Brien is a British poet, critic and playwright. His prizes include the Eric Gregory Award (1979), the Somerset Maugham Award (1984), the Cholmondeley Award (1988), the Forward Poetry Prize and the T. S. Eliot Prize (2007). He is one of only three poets to have won both the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Forward Poetry Prize for the same collection of poems. He grew up in Hull, and was educated at Hymers College and Selwyn College, Cambridge. He has lived in Newcastle upon Tyne since 1990, where he teaches at the university. He was the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor at St. Anne's College, Oxford for 2016-17.
Jen Hadfield is a British poet and visual artist. She has published four poetry collections. Her first collection, Almanacs, won an Eric Gregory Award in 2003. Hadfield is the youngest female poet to be awarded the TS Eliot Prize, with her second collection, Nigh-No-Place, in 2008. Her fourth collection, The Stone Age, was selected as the Poetry Book Society choice for spring 2021 and won the Highland Book Prize, 2021.
Kate Clanchy MBE is a British poet, freelance writer and teacher.
Rita Ann Higgins is an Irish poet and playwright.
Edna Longley is an Irish literary critic and cultural commentator specialising in modern Irish and British poetry.
The Seamus Heaney Centre is located at Queen's University Belfast, and named after the late Seamus Heaney, recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Heaney graduated from Queens in 1961 with a First Class Honours in English language and literature.
Maggie Hannan is an English poet, formerly based in Hull, now living in County Sligo, Ireland. She is the author of a single 'but highly influential' collection of poetry, Liar, Jones. She won the Eric Gregory Award in 1990. She was shortlisted for the Forward Best First Collection prize in 1995. She was director of the Humber Mouth Literature Festival.
Leanne O'Sullivan is a poet from the Beara Peninsula in Cork, Ireland. She is the author of three collections of poetry.
Polly Clark is a Canadian-born British writer and poet. She is the author of Larchfield (2017), which fictionalised a youthful period in the life of poet W.H. Auden, and Tiger (2019) about a last dynasty of wild Siberian tigers. She has published four critically acclaimed volumes of poetry. She lives in Helensburgh, Scotland.
Tracey Herd is a Scottish poet based in Dundee.
Gillian K. Ferguson is a Scottish poet and journalist, born and living in Edinburgh, Scotland. She is the creator of Air for Sleeping Fish (Bloodaxe) and the best-seller, Baby: Poems on Pregnancy, Birth and Babies. She won a £25,000 Creative Scotland Award and created a major poetry project exploring the human genome called The Human Genome: Poems on the Book of Life, About her project, she said, "the Genome has remained fascinating throughout; a fantastic, beautiful poem - a magnificent work of Chemistry spanning four billion years of the art of Evolution." The project was praised, including by broadcaster, Andrew Marr of the BBC, Francis Collins, Head of the US Human Genome Project and by philosopher Mary Midgley author of Science and Poetry (Routledge).
Miriam Nash is a Scottish poet, performer and arts facilitator. She has published a pamphlet, Small Change (2015) and a full-length poetry collection, All the Prayers in the House, (2017). She received an Eric Gregory Award in 2015, was shortlisted for the Edwin Morgan poetry award in 2016, and won the Somerset Maugham Award in 2018.
Claire Askew is a Scottish novelist and poet.
Jane Clarke is an Irish poet. She is the author of two poetry collections and an illustrated poetry booklet. The Irish novelist Anne Enright has praised her poems for their "clean, hard-earned simplicity and a lovely sense of line."
Zoë Brigley or Zoë Brigley Thompson is a Welsh poet, joint editor of Poetry Wales, and assistant professor in the Department of English of Ohio State University.
References
- ↑ "Miriam Gamble - Scottish Poetry Library". www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- 1 2 "Miriam Gamble - The University of Edinburgh". www.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ↑ Rumens, Carol (15 December 2014). "Poem of the week: Bodies by Miriam Gamble". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ↑ "The Squirrels Are Dead - Bloodaxe Books". www.bloodaxebooks.com. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- 1 2 Doyle, Martin. "Edna O'Brien wins Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award for Girl". The Irish Times. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- ↑ "The Society of Authors". societyofauthors.org. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ↑ "The Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Award - Edinburgh Research Explorer". www.research.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ↑ "The Society of Authors". www.societyofauthors.org. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
- ↑ "Past winners". Faculty of Arts. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
| General | |
|---|---|
| National libraries | |
