James Kirkup (1918–2009)
Auteur de These Horned Islands
A propos de l'auteur
Crédit image: Photo at ARC Publishing, unascribed
Œuvres de James Kirkup
The Prodigal Son 5 exemplaires
The cosmic shape : an interpretation of myth and legend, with three poems and lyrics (1946) 3 exemplaires
Thirty Tanka by James Kirkup. Tankalphabet. 2 exemplaires
The creation 1 exemplaire
Book of Tanka: An Anthology of Tanka from the Earliest Times to the Present Day : Selected Translations and Original… (1997) 1 exemplaire
True Misteries and a Chronicle Play of Peterbourough Cathedral (Salzburg Studies in English Literature) (1997) 1 exemplaire
When I Was a Child: English Nursery Rhymes 1 exemplaire
Certain State of Mind: An Anthology of Classic, Modern and Contemporary Japanese Haiku in Translation (Salzburg… (1996) 1 exemplaire
Cosmos, Haiku and Renku in Britain 1 exemplaire
The guitar player of zuiganji 1 exemplaire
Zen Contemplations 1 exemplaire
A spring journey, and other poems of 1952-1953 1 exemplaire
The Way I See Japan 1 exemplaire
CITIES OF THE WORLD. BANGKOK. 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Isabelle: Marcelle Lagesse ; translated by James Kirkup ; with a preface by Anthony Blond (1995) — Traducteur, quelques éditions — 3 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Kirkup, James Harold
- Autres noms
- Falconer, James
Jha, Aditya
Honda, Jun
James, Andrew
Kawai, Taeko
Liston, Felix (tout afficher 8)
Raeburn, Edward
Summerforest, Ivy B. - Date de naissance
- 1918-04-23
- Date de décès
- 2009-05-10
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- England, UK
- Lieu du décès
- Andorra
- Lieux de résidence
- Japan
Andorra
South Shields, England, UK
Gloucestershire, England, UK - Études
- South Shields Secondary School
Durham University - Professions
- poet
literary scholar
obituary writer
translator
travel writer - Prix et distinctions
- Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1962)
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 63
- Aussi par
- 18
- Membres
- 215
- Popularité
- #103,625
- Évaluation
- 3.9
- Critiques
- 4
- ISBN
- 62
- Langues
- 1
There's a lot of very entertaining gossip about sexual adventures in the public lavatories of Britain and the continent, as well as two more serious love affairs in Spain. But of course there's also a lot about Kirkup's progress as a writer and his literary friendships, most importantly that with Joe Ackerley, who acted as a kind of literary godfather to him and placed a number of his poems in the Listener, usually over the shocked objections of his clerical staff and/or the nervous BBC bureaucracy.
Kirkup reproduces quite a number of letters from Ackerley, most of which either didn't get included in Neville Braybrooke's edition of the Letters, or were heavily cut there. This often shows us a different side of Ackerley from the "official" one: still warm and funny and very supportive of Kirkup, but also liable to become rather cutting about other people who had annoyed him in one way or another.
A particularly enjoyable feature of the memoir is the very natural way Kirkup includes his own poems in the text, in the context of the situations where they were written.
Great fun, but you need to have a certain amount of background knowledge about the English (gay-) literary world in the 1950s, otherwise you're going to get a bit lost in the stream of names.… (plus d'informations)