http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:48:24 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/and-the-winners-are/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/and-the-winners-are/#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2011 13:40:23 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=4932 A strong showing from poets based in Cumbria in a couple of recent poetry competitions - Joanne Weeks and Annie Foster took 2nd and 3rd prizes at Maryport's 'Beyond the Frontier' competition, judged by Josephine Dickinson, while Mungrisedale Writers' member John Fryer picked up 2nd prize in their competition, themed 'Looking Back' and judged by Grevel Lindop. Read their poems>>]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/and-the-winners-are/feed/ 0 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/prize-winning-poetry-by-martyn-halsall/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/prize-winning-poetry-by-martyn-halsall/#comments Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:14:22 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=4635 West Cumbrian poet Martyn Halsall has won the annual Jack Clemo Memorial Prize - for the third time. The prize is worth £100 and comes with a specially commissioned sculpture that the winner keeps - rather like the FA Cup - for the next twelve months. Read more>>]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/prize-winning-poetry-by-martyn-halsall/feed/ 0 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/works-continue-poet-in-the-house-at-bbc-radio-cumbria/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/works-continue-poet-in-the-house-at-bbc-radio-cumbria/#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2011 17:26:52 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=3446 Producers at Radio Cumbria got all excited at idea of inviting a writer-in-residence into their studios last week, having heard the news that Lad Lit novelist and former maverick music journo Tony Parsons had got the gig at Heathrow Airport. Not to be outdone, the county's broadcasting behemoth got on the phone to young poet John North and asked him if he fancied getting up at the yawn of dawn to commune with the Muse on their behalf for a couple of hours. Read more ... ]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/works-continue-poet-in-the-house-at-bbc-radio-cumbria/feed/ 0 http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/jacob-polley-is-a-scotsman/ http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/jacob-polley-is-a-scotsman/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:33:41 +0000 Mick North http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/?p=2299 ... not because his native city of Carlisle used to be north of the border, but by virtue of the fact that he now teaches Creative Writing at the University of St Andrews, alongside fellow poets John Burneside, Don Paterson, and Robert Crawford. A possibly unexpected perk of the job was the selection of his poem Homecoming for the Scottish Poetry Library's new online anthology, Best Scottish Poems 2010. Read more ...]]> http://www.newwritingcumbria.org.uk/jacob-polley-is-a-scotsman/feed/ 0