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We are very sorry to hear that Sir Frank Kermode has passed away. Undoubtedly one of the greatest literary critics of our time, his contributions to the literary world include The Romantic Image (1957), The Sense of an Ending (1967) and Shakespeare’s Language (2000) to name but a few. He was a generous and considerate man as well as an intellectual genius; we here at The Literateur remain grateful to him for his kindness in making time to talk to us last year.
New Writing CompetitionThe Literateur is very pleased to announce a competition aimed at finding the best in new writing, organised jointly with The Literary Consultancy. Click here for more details!———————————————————————-
Barbara Trapido is the author of seven novels including Brother of the More Famous Jack (1982) and Frankie and Stankie (2003). She has been shortlisted for major awards including the Whitbread.
She talks to us about her latest novel Sex and Stravinsky (May 2010), her inspirations and writing processes and being given the label of a “South African writer”. She also tells us a little about the novel she is ‘brooding’ on at the moment, which may involve a lady who uses ‘a pet baboon to deflea the dog’…
James Shapiro is a professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and author of the award-winning 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. His most recent book, Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? explores the origins and various incarnations of the authorship controversy surrounding Shakespeare’s plays.
The celebrated novelist, screenwriter and playwright talks about his new Collected Stories, why writing can seem like a waste of time, the ‘blandness’ of multiculturalism, why he’s become a Marxist (‘in the last three days’) and how he liked Thatcher (because he ‘hated her’).
Open to the World: A Report on the London Review Bookshop’s World Literature Weekend (18 – 20 June 2010)
Get a Green Tie, Be a New Man: Guy Cuthbertson has bought a green tie. He tells us why it represents great artistic and literary expectations.
T.S. Eliot Prize Reading Report: At the British poetry world’s biggest annual prize, a strong shortlist including three former winners battle for the prestige and the cash.
‘Writ in Water’: Shelley, Byron, Keats and the Italian Sea
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We present an exciting new voice in literature and ask them a few questions:
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Barefoot in the Park Poetry Competition Winners
‘The Studio of Paula Rego’ by Anna McKerrow
‘From America’ by Joshua Roche
‘Poem for a Partnership’ by Alan Fielden
‘A Visitor’ by Alex Christofi
‘177′ by Howard Colyer
‘Dog Days’ by Jocelyn Meermans
‘Chicken in a Basket’ by Anna Towers
Incisive comments on latest releases by our team of reviewers.
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Ana Tewson-Bozic
The ocean looked very rough and choppy, darker than ashes it was, with great chasmous waves and many people watching brave swimmers from the beach. It reminded me of a sports day or fireworks celebration, it was strange to see even young people wearing clothes here.
I had insisted upon coming out today and my Baba Marica doggedly stalked the red earth behind as chaperone, so appalled was she of my plan to go alone – as Mama was this day tied to home and my lazy brother.
Nearing the beach, …
Emergence
Fanny Howe
Reality Street Press, June 2010, Paperback, 60pp, ISBN 978 1 874400 47 9
Price: £7.50
Dan Eltringham and Christopher Gatefield
Boston-born Fanny Howe is read as an experimental poet; she is located on the far side of the tracks in English language poetry’s continuing divide between the establishment and progressive poetry worlds. Emergence may not be a collection of new poems but it will be gratefully received by both long-time admirers and newcomers eager to find out more. It comprises of nine poems of varying lengths from the 1970s to the 1990s, …
The Literateur is very pleased to announce a competition aimed at finding the best in new writing, organised jointly with The Literary Consultancy.
The Literary Consultancy, the UK’s leading manuscript assessment service, provides expert, market-aware editorial advice to writers at all levels writing in English. Founded in 1996, The Literary Consultancy is recommended by The Arts Council England and major publishing houses, and holds a strong track record of helping writers get into print.
From today (13.08.10) The Literateur is accepting entries of short stories and poetry. Stories should be no more …
Howie Good
Oh, habitués of the walk-in clinic!
Oh, aficionados of the cockpit voice recorder!
Nothingness isn’t something
you sleep off in a doorway.
The buildings
are full of forgotten vaudevillians
and signs that say EXIT,
and every panhandler demonstrates
the doubtful efficacy of begging.
Light slows to a trickle.
The sun has gone behind a cloud.
Flowers stumble like horse thieves
leaning over the necks of stolen horses.
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Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of 18 print and digital poetry chapbooks and the full-length collection of poetry, Lovesick (2009). His second …
Arun Sagar
All was at once intimate and public
like a note passed through a classroom.
Queues were forming at the check-in counter,
and by the river young men zig-zagged
their skates amid the maple leaves.
But here: mannequins, scarves, steaks
in Rocquefort sauce. These city nights are
brightened with cloud, the way the first
sip of wine sharpens the nerves of the mouth
and October comes with fire colours, fine rain.
