"Graham creates a democratic space in which anyone present can contribute thoughts about the poems and the poet's ideas" (Workshop participant) |
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Graham Fawcett provides courses, seminars, and tutorials on reading and writing poetry. He has been a tutor for The Poetry School since 1997, devising and teaching new courses on poetry past and present from around the world. He has taught translation at Goldsmiths College since 1991 and lectures on both poetry and translation at universities in the UK, Italy and Spain. He has been a mentor for Exiled Writers Ink, and is a trustee of Outside In, the children's world literature charity, and President of the T S Eliot Society (UK) - www.eliotsociety.org.uk..
He has edited Anvil New Poets (Anvil Press, 1990), is
co-editor, with Mimi Khalvati, of the second Poetry School anthology, Entering The Tapestry (Enitharmon, 2003), adjudicated the Suffolk Poetry Society's 2008 George Crabbe Memorial Poetry Competition, and contributed to the 2009 celebrations in Woodbridge to mark the Edward Fitzgerald bicentenary.
2010 collaborations include Pepys 350, the first Chipping Campden Literature Festival in early May, the debut of Art House Holidays in Atlantic Spain at the end of June, and a new series of monthly supper lectures on Dante's Divine Comedy starting on September 6th in London and available for tour.
He is a translator and interpreter in Italian and has written and presented radio programmes about literature and music on BBC Radio 3 for many years.
Graham studied Classics at Christ's Hospital, read Archaeology & Anthropology and English at Cambridge, and has worked for Southern Arts, the British Institute of Florence, and the Arvon Foundation. He has lived in Italy and French Catalonia and now lives in London. |
