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 poetry and translation at universities in the UK, Italy and in 2009 Spain, as well as being a mentor for Exiled Writers Ink.
He is the editor of Anvil New Poets (Anvil Press, 1990) and
co-editor, with Mimi Khalvati, of the second Poetry School anthology, Entering The Tapestry (Enitharmon, 2003). He is the adjudicator of the Suffolk Poetry Society's 2008 George Crabbe Memorial Poetry Competition. 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 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. |
Events and courses at a glance in December 2008
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Monday 1st December - St Olave's, Hart Street - Parallel Lives 10 - Pepys and Daniel Defoe
Sunday 7th December - Barbican Library - Milton's 'Samson Agonistes', Handel's Samson
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