{"id":2308,"date":"2015-05-11T20:02:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T19:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/?p=2308"},"modified":"2015-05-11T20:02:46","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T19:02:46","slug":"celebrating-the-rich-tradition-of-poetry-at-the-university-of-gloucestershire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/2015\/05\/11\/celebrating-the-rich-tradition-of-poetry-at-the-university-of-gloucestershire\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the rich tradition of poetry at the University of Gloucestershire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rarely a month goes by without happy news of our poets&#8217; success, and now congratulations are due to Lesley Ingram (an\u00a0alumni of our MA programme), Sam Kemp (a current student on our MA programme), and Angela France (one of our lecturers).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/scumbled-upload-cover.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2309\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/scumbled-upload-cover.jpg?resize=97%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"scumbled-upload-cover\" width=\"97\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Lesley has just published her debut collection,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cinnamonpress.com\/product-item\/scumbled\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scumbled<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>with CInammon Press. She won the 2013 Ludlow Fringe Poetry Competition and has previously\u00a0been published in various places including <em>Mslexia, The Flea, Dead Ink, iota, Under the Radar, Writers Abroad,<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Angle.\u00a0<\/em>You can hear Lesley reading from her much anticipated collection at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1593031057636553\/\" target=\"_blank\">a special (and free!) poetry event<\/a> being held on Saturday 6th June as part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/UogFringeFestival\" target=\"_blank\">UoG Creative Writing Fringe Festival<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Also reading at that event will be Angela France, whose many achievements include winning the Lightship International Poetry Prize. Angela has just published two new poems: her work features in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/anglepoetry.co.uk\/current-issue\/\" target=\"_blank\">the new issue of <em>Angle<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and in a new Bloodaxe anthology,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloodaxebooks.com\/titlepage.asp?isbn=1780371551\" target=\"_blank\">Hallelujah for 50ft Women<\/a>.<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/hallelujah_for_50ft_women.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2310\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/hallelujah_for_50ft_women.jpg?resize=91%2C142&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"160pp D8vo\" width=\"91\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>And congratulations are also due to Sam Kemp &#8211; an exciting new voice &#8211; whose poetry appears in the current\u00a0<em>Angle\u00a0<\/em>as well as in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dreamcatchermagazine.co.uk\/html\/about.html\" target=\"_blank\">Dreamcatcher<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/angle-issue7.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2311\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/26\/2019\/01\/angle-issue7.jpg?resize=106%2C150&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Angle Issue7\" width=\"106\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>If you&#8217;d like to hear some of our great poets, then don&#8217;t forget our celebration of poetry on June 6th, featuring Lesley, Angela, <a title=\"Alumni\" href=\"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/alumni\/\">Anna Saunders<\/a>, <a title=\"Former student Mantie Lister elected Bard of Exeter\" href=\"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/2015\/03\/15\/former-student-mantie-lister-elected-bard-of-exeter\/\">Mantie Lister<\/a>, and <a title=\"Nigel\" href=\"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/profiles\/nigel\/\">Nigel McLoughlin<\/a>. Please see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/1593031057636553\/\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook event page<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rarely a month goes by without happy news of our poets&#8217; success, and now congratulations are due to Lesley Ingram (an\u00a0alumni of our MA programme), Sam Kemp (a current student on our MA programme), and Angela France (one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,26,195,215,251,280,291,318,379],"class_list":["post-2308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-angela-france","tag-anna-saunders","tag-lesley-ingram","tag-mantie-lister","tag-nigel-mcloughlin","tag-poetry","tag-publications-and-performances","tag-sam-kemp","tag-uog-fringe"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uniofglos.blog\/creativewriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}