News
- Australian poet Glen Phillips, who co-authored ‘Singing Granites: Poems of Devon and Gondwanaland’ with Anne Born in 2008 has now had some of the poems from that book translated into Chinese, and they are included in a new bi-lingual Chinese-English poetry book published in Mudanjiang China.[13-Jul-11 ]
Oversteps News 17 condensed, July 2011. Two new books and a great day of Oversteps events at the Ways with Words Festival, Dartington.
[7-Jul-11 ]
For an on-line interview with Mandy Pannett (‘Bee Purple’ and ‘Frost Hollow’) see http://www.everydaypoets.com/
[6-Jul-11 ]
‘Ally Pally Prison Camp’ by Maggie Butt, is on the Poetry Kit ‘five books for summer reading’ list; and Maggie will be giving a talk on her book for BBC Radio London’s Arts and Cultural programme this coming Monday afternoon.
[6-Jul-11 ]
A C Clarke (Messages of Change) has won this year’s Grey Hen competition. She has also recently had poems published in Glasgow’s literary magazine Gutter 4, Fras 14, Aberdeen University’s Causeway and in Quantum Leap 54.
A new book by A C Clarke will be published by Oversteps before Christmas.
[2-Jul-11 ]
Ann Segrave was recently invited to read to a group of Creative Writing students from Rutgers, when they were visiting for a Writing and Rambling course. As several of Ann’s poems in ‘Aviatarix’ were inspired by the Sussex landscape, this was highly appropriate.
[1-Jul-11 ]
A new book by Oz Hardwick, prose rather than poetry, will be published by Boydell & Brewer on 21st July. It’s ‘English Medieval Misericords: The Margins of Meaning’. and sounds really interesting.
[25-Jun-11 ]
Michael Swan, Caroline Carver and Alwyn Marriage gave a reading last week at the beautiful Walpole Old Chapel in Suffolk.
[25-Jun-11 ]
Oz Hardwick is reading at Glastonbury this week. He is one of the poets in residence at the Mandala Stage, reading every day and playing a set with his duo ‘Sixpenny Wayke’
[25-Jun-11 ]
Melanie Penycate will be reading with other poets at an open-air event at St Paul’s Church Covent Garden on 9th June, when Iris Theatre launches its summer season. www.iristheatre.com
[5-Jun-11 ]
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