Imtiaz Dharker named new Chancellor of Newcastle University
Poet, artist and film-maker Imtiaz Dharker will become Chancellor of Newcastle University on 1 January 2020.
Poet, artist and film-maker Imtiaz Dharker will become Chancellor of Newcastle University on 1 January 2020.
Imtiaz Dharker is Artist in Residence at Chester Storyhouse 9 Nov-30 Dec 2019. An installation of her drawings & new poem will fill Storyhouse’s spaces for a year.
Catalan poet Joan Margarit wins the Cervantes Prize, the most prestigious award for literature in the Spanish language.
Helen Ivory's fifth collection, featuring her own artwork on the cover, wins the East Anglian Writers Book by the Cover Award 2019.
Jen Campbell's debut collection The Girl Aquarium a semifinalist for the Goodreads Choice Awards 2019 (Best Poetry category).
Maitreyabandhu's After Cézanne reviewed in The Guardian; plus interviews & films.
Katrina Porteous interviewed on Radio 4's Front Row about science, space and her new collection Edge.
Jane Clarke interview & poems in The Poet; Guardian & Irish Times Poems of the Week; Poem & Book of the Week features in Elementum; Library of Congress 'Poet and the Poem' interview with Grace Cava...
Imtiaz Dharker poem being set to music for the BBC Radio 3 Breakfast Carol Competition; guest appearance on BBC TV's News at Nine on National Poetry Day 3 Oct; plus interviews & presenting.
Reviews & interviews for Vidyan Ravinthiran's Forward & T S Eliot-Prize shortlisted second collection.
