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Warwick musician broadcast on BBC Radio 3
Peter Blegvad, English and Creative Writing professor, has written and narrated ‘Use It Or Lose It’ for BBC Radio 3.
The radiophonic play, co-created by Iain Chambers, details the failing of one man’s mind. The play comprises of narrated fiction, radiophonic music and sound design to take us inside the protagonist’s mind.
Professor Morley's Poetry Spans the Globe
Professor David Morley from the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies has seen one of his poems spread across the world as part of acclaimed artist Julia Foster’s global poetry and art project.
Poems on the Underground
As part of this year's Poems on the Underground programme, a poem, written by Professor David Morley, Director of the Warwick Writing Programme, will be displayed in tube carriages across all London Underground lines throughout February and March 2010.
'Shakespeare Found' Film is Top Download on iTunes U
A University of Warwick production about a newly discovered Shakespeare portrait has become the most downloaded film on Apple's iTunes U service.
Celebrating the life and work of Paul Robeson
Fifty years after his performance of Othello at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the life and work of Paul Robeson will take centre stage in a series of events to compliment the RSC's latest production of Othello at the Warwick Arts Centre.
Taking time over 'Slow Poems'
Warwick
academic and poet Professor David Morley recently contributed over 80 poems to a
“slow art” poetry trail in woodland at Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire. The “slow poems” are written into natural
materials to form a woodland trail and will remain there until they naturally
fade and disappear.
Student Folklore Transforms into Edinburgh Performance
Love and Other Human Tragedy, the student produced folktale book, has been transformed into physical theatre and will soon be presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Launched last May, the first ever University of Warwick student book retells tales that once upon a time came from lands far far away from here.
A Time and a Place - Open Studies Creative Writing
They say that there's a time and a place for everything and Millennium Place seems to sum that up. A group of Open Studies Creative Writing students recently visited Millennium Place to absorb the vibes and get some inspiration.
Introducing White Trash Intellectuals!
White Trash Intellectuals, a brand new publishing house created by the MA students of the Warwick Writing Programme is pleased to announce the launch of their first anthology of writings.
Poetic flow!
Playwright and Nobel Prize-winning poet, Derek Walcott was a special guest of the University last week, as part of a planned year long series of events to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Centre for Caribbean Studies.
Careers Service awarded the Matrix!
Congratulations are in order for the University's Careers Service who has been awarded the Matrix Accreditation only two months after being named second best Careers Service in the country.
Warwick Student Wins Prestigious Student Prize
Saba Hinrichs, a 4th year Electronic Engineering student has won second place in the prestigious UK Erasmus Student Prize.