All News tagged with 'poetry'
Chris Meredith launches Wordsmiths in Session
April 11, 2011
Poet and novelist Chris Meredith kicks off the first in a series of monthly literary events at The Hours Cafe and Bookshop in Brecon on Saturday April 16th at 7pm.
Philip Gross on genealogy programme
April 8, 2011
In ‘Look Up Your Genes’, a new Radio Wales documentary transmitted this Sunday, April 10th at 5.30pm, Professor Philip Gross recalls the story of his Estonian father who fled to Britain during WWII.
Glamorgan Professor’s poetry adorns Trafalgar Square Christmas tree
December 17, 2010
Philip Gross’ new version of 'Gerd’ by Norwegian poet Nordahl Grieg is one of three poems commissioned by the Poetry Society in celebration of the world’s most famous Christmas tree. Norway’s most important war poet, Grieg escorted Norway’s King Haakon VII to his wartime exile in London, and was later killed in action on 2 December 1943. Gerd is both a love poem to his wife Gerd and an evocation of peace and the natural landscape.
“I recognise the Nordic attitude to nature and to one’s home landscape,” says Professor Gross, “from my own father, who came as a wartime refugee from Estonia.”
Glamorgan Professor's poem is the star of National Poetry Day
October 12, 2010
Philip Gross’s poem, ‘Room Inside’, from his children’s book Off Road To Everywhere, was adopted as part of the Poetry Society’s National Poetry Day publicity.
Book Launch on Campus
February 3, 2010
Lecturers in the University of Glamorgan’s English Division will today, Wednesday 3rd February, launch three new books at an event on the University’s campus.
Phillip Gross's The Water Table reviewed on BBC 4
November 25, 2009
A collection of poetry written by Professor Philip Gross, of the University of Glamorgan’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences has been the subject of an excellent review on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Saturday Review’.
Lecturers in running for literary prize
March 2, 2009
Two members of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Glamorgan are in the running for a top Welsh literary award.
