The Blue Nose Poets

Sue Hubbard

SUE HUBBARD is a freelance art critic, novelist and poet. Twice winner of the London Writing Competition, she was the Poetry Society’s first ever Public Art Poet creating site-specific poems in Birmingham’s jewellery quarter and London’s biggest public art poem that leads from Waterloo to IMAX. Depth of Field, her first novel, was published in 2000. She writes a regular column for The Independent. Her latest poetry collection, Ghost Station, is published by SALT.

Mario Petrucci

A major exponent of public art and hybrid forms, particularly science in poetry, MARIO PETRUCCI was the first ever poet-in-residence at The Imperial War Museum and with BBC Radio 3. His debut collection, Shrapnel and Sheets, was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His most recent collection, Heavy Water: a poem for Chernobyl, is now the subject of a film by Seventh Art and was winner of the Daily Telegraph Arvon Prize. He is four times winner of the London Writers Competition.

Biographies of Guest Tutors and Affiliates

Alan Brownjohn

Sunday 13 May at the Barbican: “HUMAN STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES AND ODDITIES”

ALAN BROWNJOHN has published twelve volumes of poetry, represented in his Collected Poems (2006), and is the author of three novels, The Way You Tell Them (1990), The Long Shadows (a‘literary thriller’ set in Communist Romania - 1997) and A Funny Old Year (2001).

Maggie Butt

The Writing Conference - Barbican 10 December

MAGGIE BUTT is an ex-journalist and BBC TV documentary filmmaker. She runs the Media and Communication department of Middlesex University, and teaches on the creative writing degree. She has a PhD in creative writing, is a university Teaching Fellow and committee member of the National Association of Writers in Education. Her poetry is widely published in magazines, and in Quintana Roo (2003).

Edward Fellows

Guest yoga teacher at The Abbey - 21 - 23 September

Edward Fellows first started practicing yoga in India in 1987. Subsequently he completed a two year teacher training in the Vanda Scaravelli approach. He studied art at Chelsea School of Art and has had many exhibitions in Britain and abroad. His approach is both gentle and exhilarating.

Andrew Gilligan

Sunday 15 July at the Barbican: IS JOURNALISM PROPER WRITING?

ANDREW GILLIGAN is a writer and columnist for the London Evening Standard and a correspondent on Channel 4’s Dispatches. He is perhaps best known for revealing that the British Government ‘sexed up’ its dossier advocating war on Iraq, a story that led to the Hutton enquiry. Educated at Cambridge University, he has been a practising journalist for twelve years and has worked for local and national newspapers, BBC TV and radio.

Philip Gross

PHILIP GROSS is a poet, novelist and radio writer, as well as being Professor of Creative Writing at Glamorgan University. His new books, published last year, are The Egg of Zero (poetry) from Bloodaxe, and The Storm Garden (novel for young people) from OUP.

David Wood

Sunday 2 December at the Barbican: SUDDENLIES AND OTHER INGREDIENTS OF CHILDREN’S BOOKS AND PLAYS

DAVID WOOD has written over sixty plays for children performed world wide with many West End runs and UK National tours. His many adaptations include Dick King-Smith’s Babe, the Sheep-Pig and Roald Dahl’s The BFG and The Witches. David was dubbed ‘the national children’s dramatist’ by Irving Wardle in The Times.