Andrew McNeillie’s new collection of poems In Mortal Memory is now available. A launch event is being held at 6.30pm Blackwells Bookshop, Oxford, 25 February 2010. If you happen to be in the area you are most welcome to join the gathering. For more information, or to order copies, visit www.carcanet.co.uk
Category: Andrew McNeillie
Launch of Once by Andrew McNeillie
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Ian Niall: Part of his Life
Announcing the forthcoming publication of Ian Niall: Part of his Life by Andrew McNeillie, available March 2007 ‘…We owe Andrew McNeillie a great debt for reintroducing us to the most neglected of writers.’ Douglas Gifford Ian Niall was the pen name of John McNeillie (1916-2002). Between them they wrote more than forty books, over a period of as many years, from 1939 when at twenty-two John McNeillie published Wigtown Ploughman: Part of His Life, with Putnam of London and New York, a Scottish classic still in print, a book that raised a national controversy, leading to housing reform. As Ian Niall, author of the novel No Resting Place (1948), filmed in Ireland by Paul Rotha, he would go on to…
Andrew McNeillie and Julian Bell – Arkwork with Artwork (Clutag Press, 2006)
Announcing the publication of ARKWORK with ARTWORK by Andrew McNeillie and Julian Bell, published March 2006 24pp 170mm x 240mm ISBN 0-9547275-5-X ‘Arkwork’, a series of eleven sonnets by Andrew McNeillie, finds in the loss of the Stranraer-Larne ferry in January 1953, in which 133 passengers and crew drowned, a focus for a reflection on the literary history of shipwreck, death, and survival. The poems are superbly illustrated in dramatic drawings by the artist Julian Bell. (vii) ALTOGETHER ELSEWHERE They went aboard in ones and twos, in no great shape or order. The usual kind of crowd and would be casual but for those quayside feeling queasy blues. They were thrown together… (Excuse me.) But they’d need more than dry…
Andrew McNeillie
Andrew McNeillie was born in North Wales in 1946 and educated at John Bright Grammar School, Llandudno, and Magdalen College, Oxford. He was Literature Editor at OUP for five years until May 2009 when Exeter Univeristy made him a Professor in their English Department, based at the university’s campus in Cornwall. This appointment centres round the magazine ARCHIPELAGO founded in 2007 and a new MA programme closely associated with it called ‘Nature, Writing and Place’. He has two new books forthcoming: a memoir Once due from Seren in May 2009, and a book of poems In Mortal Memory due from Carcanet in February 2010. His first collection of poems Nevermore (2000), in the Oxford Poets series from Carcanet, was shortlisted…