Welsh writing in English,is a term used to describe works written in the English language by Welsh writers.
Performance poetry is a broad term,encompassing a variety of styles and genres. In brief,it is poetry that is specifically composed for or during a performance before an audience. During the 1980s,the term came into popular usage to describe poetry written or composed for performance rather than print distribution,mostly open to improvisation.
Sir Andrew Motion is an English poet,novelist,and biographer,who was Poet Laureate from 1999 to 2009. During the period of his laureateship,Motion founded the Poetry Archive,an online resource of poems and audio recordings of poets reading their own work. In 2012,he became President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England,taking over from Bill Bryson.
Jeffrey Addison Nuttall was an English poet,performer,author,actor,teacher,painter,sculptor,jazz musician,anarchist and social commentator who was a key part of the British 1960s counter-culture. He was the brother of literary critic A. D. Nuttall.
"The British Poetry Revival" is the general name given to a loose poetry movement in Britain that took place in the 1960s and 1970s. The revival was a modernist-inspired reaction to the Movement's more conservative approach to British poetry. The poets included an older generation - Bob Cobbing,Paula Claire,Tom Raworth,Eric Mottram,Jeff Nuttall,Andrew Crozier,Lee Harwood,Allen Fisher,Iain Sinclair—and a younger generation:Paul Buck,Bill Griffiths,John Hall,John James,Gilbert Adair,Lawrence Upton,Peter Finch,Ulli Freer,Ken Edwards,Robert Gavin Hampson,Gavin Selerie,Frances Presley,Elaine Randell,Robert Sheppard Paul Evans Adrian Clarke,Clive Fencott,Maggie O'Sullivan,Cris Cheek,Tony Lopez and Denise Riley.
Brian William Bransom Griffiths,known as Bill Griffiths,was a poet and Anglo-Saxon scholar associated with the British Poetry Revival.
Bob Cobbing was a British sound,visual,concrete and performance poet who was a central figure in the British Poetry Revival.
Allen Fisher is a poet,painter,publisher,teacher and performer associated with the British Poetry Revival.
The New British Poetry 1968-88 was a poetry anthology from 1988,jointly edited by Gillian Allnutt,Fred D'Aguiar,Ken Edwards and Eric Mottram,respectively concerned with feminist,Black British,younger experimental and British poetry revival poets. The book's general editor was John Muckle,founder of the Paladin Poetry Series. He attempted to challenge what many saw as a narrowly defined 'mainstream' by creating a book around different strands in radical poetry and four editors who might not otherwise have worked together:"Their differences,both in the shape they have given their selections and in their introductory remarks,make this a many-sided,exciting,unpredictable - and no doubt contentious book." The anthology's multicultural and counter-cultural stance gave it a strong anti-Thatcherite flavour. The book was widely if critically reviewed and went on to influence a number of subsequent anthologies of British poetry.
Other:British and Irish Poetry since 1970 is a poetry anthology edited by Richard Caddel and Peter Quartermain,and published in 1999 by Wesleyan University Press. According to the Introduction
Philip Jeck was an English composer and multimedia artist. His compositions were noted for utilising antique turntables and vinyl records,along with looping devices and both analogue and digital effects. Initially composing for installations and dance companies,beginning in 1995 he released music on the UK label Touch.
Lawrence Upton,was a poet,graphic artist and sound artist,and director of Writers Forum.
Jeremy Adler is a British scholar and poet,and emeritus professor and senior research fellow at King's College London. As a poet he is known especially for his concrete poetry and artist's books. As an academic he is known for his work on German literature specialising in the Age of Goethe,Romanticism,Expressionism and Modernism with contributions on figures such as Goethe,Hölderlin,and Kafka.
Dartington College of Arts was a specialist arts college located at Dartington Hall in the south-west of England,offering courses at degree and postgraduate level together with an arts research programme. It existed for a period of almost 50 years,from its foundation in 1961,to when it closed at Dartington in 2010. A version of the College was then re-established in what became Falmouth University,and the Dartington title was subsequently dropped. The College was one of only a few in Britain devoted exclusively to specialist practical and theoretical studies in courses spanning right across the arts. It had an international reputation as a centre for contemporary practice. As well as the courses offered,it became a meeting point for practitioners and teachers from around the world. Dartington was known not only as a place for training practitioners,but also for its emphasis on the role of the arts in the wider community.
Adrian Clarke is a contemporary British poet. His collections include Skeleton Sonnets,Former Haunts,Possession:Poems 1996-2006,and Eurochants.
Clive Fencott is a writer and sound poet,a performer associated with the British Poetry Revival,and an academic.
Writers Forum is a small publisher,workshop and writers' network established by Bob Cobbing. The roots of Writers Forum were in the 1954 arts organisation Group H,and the And magazine that Cobbing edited. The writers' branch of Group H was called Writers Forum. In 1963 a press with the publishing imprint "Writers Forum" was begun and administered by Cobbing,John Rowan and Jeff Nuttall. Between 1963 and 2002 Writers' Forum published more than one thousand pamphlets and books including works by John Cage,Allen Ginsberg,Brion Gysin,and P. J. O'Rourke,as well as a wide range of British Poetry Revival modernist poets,such as Eric Mottram,Bill Griffiths,Geraldine Monk,Maggie O'Sullivan,Paula Claire and Sean Bonney. While publishing was integral to the Cobbing-led workshop,it also provided an opportunity for poets to read their works in a supportive and non-critical environment.
Robert Gavin Hampson FEA FRSA is a British poet and academic. Hampson was born and raised in Liverpool,studied in London and Toronto and settled in London. He is currently Research Fellow at the Institute for English Studies,University of London and Emeritus Professor at Royal Holloway. He was also Visiting Professor at the University of Northumbria (2018-21). He is a member of the Poetics Research Centre and the Centre for GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway. He is well known for his contributions to contemporary innovative poetry and the international study of Joseph Conrad.
Alembic was a poetry magazine established by Peter Barry,Ken Edwards,and Robert Gavin Hampson,which appeared eight times during the 1970s. It existed between 1973 and 1978. The magazine was based in London.
Paula Claire is a British Poet-Artist,whose work spans the areas of sound,visual,concrete and performance poetry. She was associated with the British Poetry Revival Movement in the 1970s and a member of Konkrete Canticle,a poetry collective founded by Bob Cobbing,which performed works for multiple voices and instruments. She has performed and exhibited her poetry internationally since 1969,creating site-specific performance pieces and using the voice contributions of her audience. She is founder and curator of the Paula Claire Archive:fromWORDtoART - International Poet-Artists,a collected body of work by fellow poet-artists.
