MSt alumnus Nabin Chettri’s collection, ‘Bini – Poems of a Forgotten Country’ has been honoured with a Discovery Award 2015 by the Red Mountain Press.
Author: MSt Creative Writing
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MSt alumna Daisy Johnson’s collection “Fen” launches in Oxford, on 3rd June 2016
MSt alumna Daisy Johnson’s collection Fen will be launched on 3rd June 2016, at Blackwell’s Bookshop Oxford. The event begins at 7 pm
“Daisy Johnson’s Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives here. They wrestle with familiar instincts, with sex and desire, with everyday routine. But the wild is always close at hand, ready to erupt. This is a place where animals and people commingle and fuse, where curious metamorphoses take place, where myth and dark magic still linger. So here a teenager may starve herself into the shape of an eel. A house might fall in love with a girl. A woman might give birth to a – well what? English folklore and a contemporary eye, sexual honesty and combustible invention – in Fen, these elements have come together to create a singular, startling piece of modern fiction.”
Read more about the collection (from Foyle’s bookshop website)
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MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s “The Girl of Ink and Stars” launches in London & Oxford
MSt alumna Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s The Girl of Ink and Stars, which is The Bookseller‘s One to Watch and Editor’s Choice for May, launches at Daunt Books in London on 3rd May, and at Blackwell’s in Oxford on 5th May.
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MSt tutor Anna Beer in the Guardian on “The sound of silence: classical music’s forgotten women”
The first ‘opera’ written by a woman … Caccini’s La Liberazione di Ruggiero dall’Isola d’Alcina in Brighton, 2015. Photograph: Robert Piwko/BREMF , published in The Guardian, 2 April 2016. MSt tutor Anna Beer’s article on “Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann are familiar names, but what of Fanny and Clara? Anna Beer on why we should be listening to Caccini and Strozzi as well as Mozart and Beethoven” appeared in The Guardian.
Read the article online: “The sound of silence: classical music’s forgotten women“
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