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A Room to Live In Zusammenfassung

A Room to Live In Tamar Yoseloff

A Room to Live In is a celebration of a unique place in British art. Kettle's Yard was the Cambridge home of Jim Ede, the visionary collector and curator, who opened his doors to generations of students and art lovers. To mark Kettle's Yard's first 50 years, and its lasting legacy, this anthology brings together an extraordinary group of writers, all of whom have been influenced by the house and its remarkable collection. This anthology is essential for anyone who has visited Kettle's Yard or admires its artists, such as Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Alfred Wallis.

Edited by Tamar Yoseloff, with a Foreword by Michael Harrison, Director of Kettle's Yard, and an Introduction by Tamar Yoseloff.

Contributors include: Alan Bennett, Anne Berkeley, Meredith Bowles, Richard Burns, Michael Bywater, Claire Crossman, Tony Curtis, Fred D'Aguiar, Jane Duran, Elaine Feinstein, John Greening, David Hare, Jeremy Hooker, Sue Hubbard, Martha Kapos, John Kinsella, Rod Mengham, John Mole, Sharon Morris, Ruth Padel, Ian Patterson, Jacob Polley, Andrea Porter, Lawrence Sail, Fiona Sampson, Sarah Skinner, Ali Smith, Robert Vas Dias, Susan Watson, Neil Wenborn, Tamar Yoseloff.

Über Tamar Yoseloff

Tamar Yoseloff was born in the US in 1965. She is the author of three poetry collections, the most recent entitled Fetch (Salt, 2007). She is also the author of Marks, a collaboration with the artist Linda Karshan, and the editor of A Room to Live In: A Kettle's Yard Anthology. Her upcoming collection, The City with Horns, is due in May 2011. She lives in London, where she is a freelance tutor in creative writing. Anne Berkeley is one of the poetry group Joy of Six, with whom she has performed across the UK and in New York. Her pamphlet The buoyancy aid and other poems was published by Flarestack in 1997, and a selection of her work appeared in Oxford Poets 2002 (Carcanet). Richard Berengarten was born in London into a family of musicians. He has lived in Italy, Greece, Serbia, Croatia and the USA. He now lives in Cambridge, where he is a Bye-Fellow at Downing College. A former Fellow of the Royal Literary Fund, he has published more than 25 books. Sue Hubbard is an award-winning poet, novelist and freelance art critic. Twice a Hawthornden Fellow her poetry includes Everything Begins with the Skin (1994) and Ghost Station, (2004). She has published a collection of short stories, Rothko's Red, (2008), a novel, Depth of Field, (2000) and a book on art, Adventures in Art (2010) and written regularly for The Independent and The New Statesman. She was the recipient of a major Arts Council Award for her new novel, Girl in White. John Kinsella is the author of over twenty books, including The Hunt (Bloodaxe, 1998) The Undertow: New & Selected Poems (Arc, UK), Visitants (Bloodaxe, 1999), and Wheatlands (2000). He is editor of the literary journal Salt, consultant editor of Westerly, and international editor of The Kenyon Review. He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, Adjunct Professor to Edith Cowan University, Western Australia, and the 2001 Richard L. Thomas Professor of Writing at Kenyon College. Rod Mengham lives and works in Cambridge. He has written books on Henry Green, Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy and on language and cultural history; he has also edited books on violence and the artistic imagination, and on modernist and contemporary fiction. He is the editor of the Equipage series of poetry pamphlets and co-editor and co-translator of the anthology of contemporary Polish poetry, Altered State (Arc, 2003). His own poems have been published in Unsung: New and Selected Poems (Salt, 2001) and with photographs by Marc Atkins in Parleys and Skirmishes (Ars Cameralis, 2007). John Mole (b. 1941) taught for many years in this country and the USA before becoming a freelance writer and occasional jazz musician. As a poet for children he continues to give readings and run workshops in schools and libraries, and his work is represented in many anthologies. Reviewing his work in the Times Educational Supplement, Gillian Clarke wrote: `He's one of the best, and already has many fans.' Ian Patterson was born in 1948 and grew up in Cheshire and London. After a variety of jobs, he now teaches English at Queens' College, Cambridge. He has published numerous translations, most recently Finding Time Again, the final volume of Proust's In Search of Lost Time from Penguin. He lives in Cambridge with the writer Jenny Diski. Andrea Porter is a member of the Joy of Six Poetry Ensemble that has performed in the UK and the USA. She has been published in variety of poetry magazines in the UK, Canada and the USA. She received an Escalator Award in 2005 and an Arts Council grant in 2006. She is also a fiction writer and has had short stories published and has just completed her first novel. Her pamphlet Bubble was adapted for BBC Radio 4 by the playwright Fraser Grace. She writes a blog, We Liked It but not Quite Enough (www.welikeditbutnotquiteenough.blogspot.com) Fiona Sampson has published fourteen books - poetry, philosophy of language and books on writing process - of which the most recent are Common Prayer (Carcanet, 2007) and Writing: Self and Reflexivity (Macmillan, 2005). Her awards include the Newdigate Prize; `Trumpeldor Beach' was short-listed for the 2006 Forward Prize; and she has been widely translated, with eight books in translation, including Travel Diary, awarded the Zlaten Prsten (Macedonia). She contributes regularly to The Guardian, The Irish Times and other publications; and is the editor of Poetry Review. Neil Wenborn is a full-time author and poet who has published widely both in Britain and in the United States. Recent works include biographies of Dvorak and Mendelssohn, and an e-book on Jane Austen's Emma. He is co-editor of the highly respected Companion to British History and A Dictionary of Jewish-Christian Relations, and a collection of his prizewinning poetry, Firedoors, is published by Rockingham Press.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword by Michael Harrison

Introduction by Tamar Yoseloff

Anne Berkeley: Monday

Fiona Sampson: The Fire Glaze

Alan Bennett: from Untold Stories

Jane Duran: Objects in Kettle's Yard

Richard Burns: from `Manual'

Martha Kapos: The Geode

John Greening: Glass

John Mole: Aquamarine

Ian Patterson: Kettle's Yard

Neil Wenborn: In Memory of Alfred Wallis

Clare Crossman: Fiddle-fish and Wave at Kettle's Yard

Fred D'Aguiar: Dreamboat

Tamar Yoseloff: The Artist

Michael Bywater: Kettle's Yard

Robert Vas Dias: After `The Island (with constant chaos)'

Tony Curtis: Three Personages, Barbara Hepworth at Kettle's Yard

Andrea Porter: Three Haiku for a Saint

Ruth Padel: White Buddha at Kettle's Yard

Meredith Bowles: One Summer

Susan Watson: A Bowl by Lucie Rie

Jeremy Hooker: On Looking into A Way of Life

Jacob Polley Stones on a Windowsill

John Kinsella: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and Me

Sue Hubbard: Migrations

Tamar Yoseloff: The Venetian Mirror

Lawrence Sail: The Challenge

Elaine Feinstein: Kettle's Yard

Sarah Skinner: The House

Fred D'Aguiar: Wartime Aubade

Rod Mengham: The Real Avant-Garde

Sue Hubbard: New Year

Ali Smith: Seven Visits to Kettle's Yard

Sharon Morris: Kettle's Yard House

David Hare: Amy's View of Kettle's Yard

Lawrence Sail: Edenic

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Zusätzliche Informationen

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GOR003708171

ISBN 13

9781844714209

ISBN 10

1844714209

Titel

A Room to Live In Tamar Yoseloff

Autor

Tamar Yoseloff

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Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

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Verlag

Salt Publishing

Datum

2007-11-30

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