Sunday, November 27, 2005

Welcome : book launch


Welcome to the Edge Hill Writing blogzine, which is where we hope to post news about what's up in the Creative Writing and Writing Studies areas at Edge Hill College of Higher Education, as well as to showcase some of the best creative work.

Both full time members of staff have recently published books. Along with three other members of the English department we celebrated our books by launching them at Edge Hill last week.

Dr Ailsa Cox's Writing Short Stories, published by Routledge, is a guide to the writing of short fiction, of which Ailsa is a champion. She is also a writer of short stories (and there are links from her webpage to several of her works).

Dr Robert Sheppard's The Poetry of Saying: British Poetry and its Discontents, published by Liverpool University Press, is an account of alternative British poets, including several who have read at Edge Hill over the last few years: Roy Fisher, Lee Harwood, Tom Raworth and Allen Fisher. He is also a poet (and there are links for his webpage and from his own blogzine, Pages, to several of his works).

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