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Autor Cliff Forshaw
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 iul 2022
RE: VERB poetically recreates Rimbaud's terrestrial adventures: from Hooligan Poet and Seer in bohemian Paris, through the years as tough merchant and gun-runner in Africa, to his death aged thirty-seven in a Marseilles hospital.
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ISBN-13: 9781915079855
ISBN-10: 1915079853
Pagini: 72
Dimensiuni: 140 x 216 x 4 mm
Greutate: 0.1 kg
Editura: Broken Sleep Books

Notă biografică

Cliff Forshaw is a poet and painter. Educated by Catholic priests, he left school at sixteen and worked in an abattoir before studying painting at art college and developing an interest in languages and literatures, which he studied sporadically at Warwick, Cambridge and Birkbeck College, London where he took an MA with Distinction in Renaissance Studies.After working in Spain, Mexico, Italy, Germany, and New York, and freelance writing in London, he won a British Academy studentship to complete his doctorate at Wolfson College, Oxford with a thesis which explored classical and renaissance satire, and in particular the figure of the Elizabethan Malcontent Satyrist.Since then he has lived in Snowdonia, been prosody consultant for the OED, and taught at Bangor, Sheffield, and Hull University where he was Senior Lecturer in English. In 2017, he left to concentrate on writing and painting, and was awarded an honorary Senior Fellowship. He is currently a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at York University.He has been writer-in-residence in France, Romania, Tasmania, Kyrgizstan and California, twice been a Hawthornden Writing Fellow, and won the Welsh Academi John Tripp Award. He has also been invited to read at various literary events in Brussels, Palo Alto, Dublin, Sydney, Iceland and Suceava (Romania). In 2016 he appeared at the XII International Festival of Poetry in Granada, Nicaragua.As founder member of the Humber Writers, he led and contributed poems, drawings and paintings to eight collaborative books and several exhibitions for the Humber Mouth and other literature festivals. He has also made three short- films: Drift (Humber Mouth Festival 2008); Under Travelling Skies, which won the first Larkin25 Words Award in 2012; and Slipway, which was commissioned by Wordquake and shown at the Beverley Literature Festival 2013. Other recent book collaborations to which Cliff has contributed poems, paintings and photographs include: Incoming (Humber Mouth Festival 2014); Sketches, Dispatches, Hull Tales and Ballads (Kingston Press / Humber Mouth Festival 2012); Postcards from Hull (Humber Mouth Festival 2011); Hide (Far Ings Nature Reserve / Humber Mouth Festival 2010); Architexts (Humber Mouth Festival 2007).