Oliver Soden (born 1990) is an English biographer. He studied at Lancing College in Sussex and at Clare College, Cambridge.[ citation needed ]
Soden's first published book was the authorized biography of the English composer Michael Tippett, a task he took over following the death of Dennis Marks. Well received by critics, [1] Michael Tippett was shortlisted for the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography and won both the Royal Philharmonic Society Storytelling Award and the Somerset Maugham Award.[ citation needed ]
His next book, titled Jeoffry the Poet's Cat (2020), purported to be a biography of the 18th-century cat that kept the poet Christopher Smart company during his confinement in a succession of mental asylums. Smart dedicated a poem fragment in Jubilate Agno to his cat, a piece now known as "For I will consider my cat Jeoffry". The Times Literary Supplement chose Jeoffry the Poet's Cat as one of its Books of the Year. [2]
In 2023, Soden published Masquerade, the first major biography of Noel Coward in 30 years. [3]
Soden is also a journalist and broadcaster, and has contributed to the Guardian, the Spectator, Prospect Magazine, and the BBC among others.[ citation needed ]
Daniel Abse CBE FRSL was a Welsh poet and physician. His poetry won him many awards. As a medic, he worked in a chest clinic for over 30 years.
Granta is a literary magazine and publisher in the United Kingdom whose mission centres on its "belief in the power and urgency of the story, both in fiction and non-fiction, and the story's supreme ability to describe, illuminate and make real." In 2007, The Observer stated: "In its blend of memoirs and photojournalism, and in its championing of contemporary realist fiction, Granta has its face pressed firmly against the window, determined to witness the world."
Private Lives is a 1930 comedy of manners in three acts by Noël Coward. It concerns a divorced couple who, while honeymooning with their new spouses, discover that they are staying in adjacent rooms at the same hotel. Despite a perpetually stormy relationship, they realise that they still have feelings for each other. Its second-act love scene was nearly censored in Britain as too risqué. Coward wrote one of his most popular songs, ‘Someday I'll Find You’, for the play.
Erika S.L. "Kika" Markham is an English actress.
Arthur James Marshall Smith was a Canadian poet and anthologist. He "was a prominent member of a group of Montreal poets" – the Montreal Group, which included Leon Edel, Leo Kennedy, A. M. Klein, and F. R. Scott — "who distinguished themselves by their modernism in a culture still rigidly rooted in Victorianism."
Sheridan Morley was an English author, biographer, critic and broadcaster. He was the official biographer of Sir John Gielgud and wrote biographies of many other theatrical figures he had known, including Noël Coward. Nicholas Kenyon called him a "cultural omnivore" who was "genuinely popular with people".
— W. H. Auden, from "September 1, 1939"
Daljit Nagra is a British poet whose debut collection, Look We Have Coming to Dover! – a title alluding to W. H. Auden's Look, Stranger!, D. H. Lawrence's Look! We Have Come Through! and by epigraph also to Matthew Arnold's "Dover Beach" – was published by Faber in February 2007. Nagra's poems relate to the experience of Indians born in the UK, and often employ language that imitates the English spoken by Indian immigrants whose first language is Punjabi, which some have termed "Punglish". He currently works part-time at JFS School in Kenton, London, and visits schools, universities and festivals where he performs his work. He is a professor of creative writing at Brunel University London.
Charles Boyle is a British poet and novelist. He also uses the pseudonyms Jack Robinson and Jennie Walker. As Walker, he won the 2008 McKitterick Prize for his novella 24 for 3.
Mark Abley is a Canadian poet, journalist, editor and nonfiction writer. His poetry and some of his nonfiction books express his interest in endangered languages. In November 2022 Abley was awarded an honorary D.Litt. by the University of Saskatchewan for his writing career and for his services to Canadian literature.
This Year of Grace is a revue with words and music by Noël Coward, produced by Charles B. Cochran in London in March 1928 and by Cochran and Archie Selwyn in New York in November of that year. The London cast was headed by Sonnie Hale, Jessie Matthews and Maisie Gay, and Tilly Losch choreographed and performed in dance sequences. Coward himself, together with Beatrice Lillie, starred in the New York production. The show was successful both in the West End and on Broadway, earned mostly strong notices, and introduced some of Coward's enduring songs. After an Australian tour in 1929 it was not revived, although several of the songs have been incorporated in later stage compilations of Coward's works and were performed by Coward in his cabaret appearances and recordings.
Jubilate Agno is a religious poem by Christopher Smart, and was written between 1759 and 1763, during Smart's confinement for insanity in St. Luke's Hospital, Bethnal Green, London. The poem was first published in 1939 under the title Rejoice in the Lamb: A Song from Bedlam, and edited by W. F. Stead from Smart's manuscript, which Stead had discovered in a private library.
Maurice Denton Welch was a British writer and painter, admired for his vivid prose and precise descriptions.
Alan Emlyn Williams was an ex-foreign correspondent, novelist and writer of thrillers.
Edwin Stuart Gomer Evans was a Swansea-born Welsh novelist and poet, raised in Ystalyfera in Glamorgan.
This is a summary of 1923 in music in the United Kingdom.
John Edward Gallas FEA is a New Zealand born poet who in 2016 was the Joint Winner of the Indigo Dreams Pamphlet Prize and the St Magnus International Festival poet.
Francesca Allinson (born Enid Ellen Pulvermacher Allinson; 20 August 1902 – 7 April 1945) was an English writer, musician and puppeteer. She was the youngest child of the pioneering physician and wholemeal bread entrepreneur Dr Thomas Allinson, and sister of the artist Adrian Allinson.
Wilfred Florestan Franks (1908–2003) was a British artist, designer, sculptor, dancer and actor. He married Daphne Rudd in 1951.
Jeffrey Mark was an English composer, folk song collector and writer.