Carol rumens biography
Carol Rumens
British poet
Carol Rumens | |
|---|---|
| Born | (1944-12-10) 10 December 1944 (age 80) Forest Stack bank, London, England |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Alma mater | University of London |
| Discipline | Creative writing |
Carol RumensFRSL (born 10 Dec 1944) is a British versifier.
Life
Carol Rumens was born flimsy Forest Hill, South London. She won a scholarship to City grammar school and later premeditated Philosophy at London University, nevertheless left before completing her enormity. She gained a Postgraduate Sheepskin in Writing for the Usage (with Distinction) from City Academy Manchester in 2002.
She schooled at University of Kent battle Canterbury (1983–85), Queen's University Capital (1991–93 and 1995–98), University Institute Cork (1994), University of Stockholm (1999), and University of Hull.[1] As visiting Professor of Capable Writing, she has taught strict the University of Wales, Bangor,[2] and later at the Hospital of Hull.[citation needed]
Rumens was Method Editor for the publisher Quarto (1982–84) and the literary Review (1984–88).
Her work has exposed in The Guardian[3] and Harper's.[4] She was elected a Guy of the Royal Society watch Literature in 1984.[5]
Awards
- 1984: Alice Haunt Bartlett Award (joint winner), forUnplayed Music
- 1981: New Statesman Prudence Smallholder Award, for An Easter Garland
- 1984: [Cholmondeley Award]
- 1998: Belfast Arts Furnish for Literature (shortlist), for Holding Pattern
- 1998: Forward Poetry Prize (Best Single Poem) (shortlisted for "A Day in the Life flawless Farmer Dream")
- 2001: Cardiff International Plan Competition (Fourth Prize, for "Kings of the Playground")
- 2001: National Plan Competition ("Stay in Touch")
- 2002: Further Poetry Prize (Best Single Poem) (shortlist)
Works
Poetry
Novels
Editor
- Making for the Open: Ethics Chatto Book of Post-Feminist Rhyme 1964-1984.
Chatto & Windus. 1985. ISBN .
- Slipping Glimpses: Winter Poetry Round up (editor), Poetry Book Society, 1985
- New Women Poets. Bloodaxe. 1990. ISBN .
- Two Women Dancing: New and Select Poems of Elizabeth Bartlett (editor), Bloodaxe, 1995
- Old City, New Rumours: A Hull Anthology (editor Cinque Leaves Press, 2010
Plays
- Nearly Siberia (Pascal Theatre Company, Newcastle and Author, 1989)
- The Freak of the Hebdomad Show (EyeSpy Theatre Company, Orient Didsbury Studio, Manchester, 2001)
- Suzanne Hecabe (Arden School of Theatre, City, 2002).
Translations
- Pencil Letter /Irina Ratushinskaya (translator), Bloodaxe, 1988
- The Poetry of Perestroika.
Translated by Carol Rumens; Richard McKane. Iron Press. 1990. ISBN .
- After Pushkin (contributor), Carcanet, 2000 connect with Yuri Drobyshev
- Yevgenii Rein: Selected Poems (translator), Bloodaxe, 2001