MSt Tutor Helen Mort’s dedicated edition of BBC R4’s Poetry Please is available on BBC Sounds till 31st July, 2020.
“Helen Mort … she chooses her favourite poems. Including works by Wordsworth, Norman MacCaig and Karen McCarthy Woolf. “
MSt alumna Camille Ralphs has been appointed Poetry Editor at the Times Literary Supplement, the first woman ever hold the role. Camille also has a second pamphlet forthcoming, with If A Leaf Falls Press.
MSt alumna Bette Adriaanse has been nominated for the Netherland’s biennial Victorie Fonds Cultuur Prize in the category Writing.
‘Her imaginative and mysterious prose immediately intrigued the jury.’
MSt alumna Maya Popa is the runner up for whe Alpine Fellowship Writing Prize 2020. Read more about the prize, Maya, and the other winners here.
MSt tutor Ella Hickson has been announced as the Old Vic Theatre’s new Associate Artist, hosting Creatives’ Corner instagram live chat, Wednesdays at 3pm.
From the Old Vic’s website:
“We are delighted to announce award-winning playwright Ella Hickson as our new Old Vic Associate Artist. Every Wednesday at 3pm, Ella will be leading conversations on Instagram Live with emerging talent from across different creative disciplines as we gain an insight into what it means to be working in theatre today.”
Visit the Creatives’ Corner.
MSt alumna Laura Theis won the 2020 Mogford Prize for Food & Drink Writing for “The Lift”.
The prize was judged by Jeremy Mogford, Stephen Fry and Prue Leith.
Read about the prize and Laura, read and download “The Lift” , or listen to it (produced by The Story Player, read by Ian Wilson-Soppitt).
MSt alumna Stephanie Scott’s novel What’s Left of Me is Yours has been published by Orion Books in the UK, and around the world.
Some of the reviews (from Orion Books):
MSt alumna Maya Popa’s reading of Lisel Mueller is now available online. The announcement from The Paris Review:
In our new series of videograms, poets read and discuss the poems getting them through these strange times—broadcasting straight from their couches to yours. These readings bring intimacy into our spaces of isolation, both through the affinity of poetry and through the warmth of being able to speak to each other across the distances.
MSt alumna Susie Campbell’s poetry pamphlet Tenter has been published by Guillemot Press.
From the announcement:
“Tenter is named after the tenter-frames on which cloth is stretched (using tenter-hooks). The poems weave around the making of the Bayeux tapestry as a way into writing about past and current wars and the role of memory and language in the way we commemorate conflict. Tenter explores what the poet sees as a crisis in our current inability to respond ethically to the consequences of wars we are still involved in, whilst engaging in public and civic acts of remembrance. “
Tenter arose from the Oxford/Oxford Brookes Mellon-Sawers Post-War Commemoration project.
Visit Guillemot Press to order Tenter.
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