Literature, Poetry

‘Play up! play up! and play the game!’ – the vital legacy of poet Henry Newbolt

Playing the Game: Selected Poems of Henry Newbolt edited by John Howlett is the first scholarly edition in more than four decades of one of the most significant poets of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. To celebrate the publication of this new book, Howlett explains why Newbolt was such a figure of importance … Continue reading

Literature

“A word on Academies”: the Beat Generation writers on higher education

The Beats and the Academy: A Renegotiation - an essay collection newly published from Clemson University Press -  explores the tensions between Beat writers and the academic institutions in which they studied and taught. In this blog post the volume's editors Erik Mortenson and Tony Trigilio probe our understanding of the historical tensions between these … Continue reading

Poetry

Nocturne: An Interview with Jodie Hollander

Each year our Pavilion Poetry students assist with the publishing of our new collections, dedicating their time to an individual poet. In this interview, Emily Woolf talks with author Jodie Hollander about her new collection, Nocturne (Pavilion Poetry, 2023) - you can also listen to Jodie’s responses below. There is a link between music and memory … Continue reading

Poetry

Local Interest: An Interview with Emily Hasler

Each year our Pavilion Poetry students assist with the publishing of our new collections, dedicating their time to an individual poet. In this interview, Melissa Thomas talks with author Emily Hasler about her new collection, Local Interest (Pavilion Poetry, 2023). What inspired your new collection Local Interest? The title comes from those sections of libraries, which I’ve … Continue reading

Literature, Poetry

‘A unique insight into the history of British literary criticism’, Writers and Their Work now available as a digital collection

Our new Writers and Their Work: The Digital Collection is not only a wonderful resource for students and researchers interested in the more than 400 authors featured in the series, it also provides a unique insight into the history of British literary criticism over the past seventy years. The history of the series The first … Continue reading