MSt tutor Jane Draycott’s poem “Italy to Lord” is The Guardian‘s poem of the week
Category: Tutor News
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MSt tutor, alumna and student finalists for Aesthetica Award 2017
MSt tutor Jenny Lewis (Sur le Pont des Arts), alumna Alexandra Strnad (The Eyemouth Tapestry and November) and student Majella Kelly (Clipping A Cockatiel’s Wings (for Dummies)) were all finalists for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award 2017.
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MSt tutor Anna Beer’s “Sounds and Sweet Airs” recommended in New York Times
MSt tutor Anna Beer’s Sounds and Sweet Airs has been chosen by Anthony Tomassini, chief classical music critic of The New York Times, as one of his Gift Ideas for Classical Music Fans.
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MSt tutor Jenny Lewis and Oxford schools, “Poetry for Peace” project
“The Poetry for Peace project is aimed at building bridges between English and Arabic-speaking communities. Generously supported by Arts Council England, Oxford University Museums and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO), the project involved poets Adnan al-Sayegh and Jenny Lewis working with over sixty 11-17 year olds from four Oxford schools on themes of heritage and peace”
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MSt tutor Jane Draycott’s poetry on London Underground
MSt tutor Jane Draycott’s poetry is to feature in London Underground’s Poems on the Underground,
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MSt tutor Jane Draycott’s new collection, “The Occupant” out on 24th November, 2016
MSt tutor Jane Draycott’s new collection, The Occupant, which is a Poetry Society Recommendation, will be published by Carcanet Press on 24th November 2016.
“‘I’ve waited some time to read something this intelligent, this sensuous and this crystalline.’ – The Guardian on The Night Tree
‘The language is marvellously modulated yet stirringly wild. Draycott has carried over into our tamer, tired world a strong, strange sense of how original, gorgeous and natural this old poem can be.’ – David Morley, Poetry Review
Following her T.S. Eliot Prize-nominated Over, Jane Draycott’s fourth collection, The Occupant, illuminates the quiet intricacies and brief intimacies of urban life. In the National Gallery, a gardener steals part of a still-life canvas to replant in his own garden; on a winter train a commuter imagines his braver, doppelgänger as a firefighter; in an abandoned sanatorium, a grand piano dreams of former days, ‘rose-spotted paintwork peeling softly, half-moon fanlights rising, sinking’, waiting for anyone to return. At the heart of these imagined scenes the long title poem, ‘The Occupant’, draws on settings proposed but left unwritten by Dutch poet Martinus Nijhoff in his great 1934 modernist narrative Awater. In the stifling summer air, Draycott’s occupant trawls the streets of an unnamed city, while ‘at tills and kiosks police post notices, ‘Missing: Have you seen this wind?’”
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MSt tutor Ben Brown’s play “Four Letter Word”, Burton Taylor studio, Oxford, 8th November)
MSt tutor Ben Brown’s one-act play “Four Letter Word’ is being produced at the Burton Taylor studio in Oxford at 12.30pm on Tuesday (8th November) by St Anne’s students as part of the first year play competition, Cuppers.
Entrance is free.
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MSt Tutors Jenny Lewis, Jane Draycott and Jamie McKendrick at the Woodstock Poetry Festival, Oxford, 11 – 13 Nov 2016
MSt Tutors Jenny Lewis, Jane Draycott and Jamie McKendrick join an international line-up of poets at the forthcoming Woodstock Poetry Festival. The full programme is now online.
Tickets and information: 01993 812760Festival ticket giving entry to all events – £60Children & students half priceTea and cakes are included in the price of all afternoon eventsMost readings are held upstairs in Woodstock Town HallEvents marked * are held in St Mary Magdalene Churchinfo@woodstockbookshop.co.uk -
MSt tutor Wendy Brandmark’s short story wins 2016 Bridport Prize
MSt tutor Wendy Brandmark’s short story “Cut Loose” has been awarded the 1st prize in the 2016 Bridport Prize competition.
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MSt tutor, alumna, and student shortlisted for 2016 Bridport Prize, Poetry
Poems by MSt tutor Caroline Bird, MSt alumna Harriet MacMillan, and student Mary Jane Holmes were short-listed for the 2016 Bridport Prize.
The full short list.
