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The Gwyn Jones Lecture 2006
The Academi Gwyn Jones Lecture 2006, entitled Leslie Norris’ Water Voices, will be delivered this week by Patrick McGuiness. The Lecture was written this year by McGuiness, he follows Ceri Sherlock, Tony Conran, Sean Burke, Adam Philips and Tony Brown in delivering the prestigious annual lecture.
This, the sixth Gwyn Jones Lecture will be the centre–piece of the Leslie Norris Memorial Evening at the Norwegian Church this Thursday.
Patrick McGuiness was born in 1968 in Tunisia and brought up in Belgium, Iran and England. In 1998 he won an Eric Gregory Award for Poetry from the Society of Authors and in 2003 the Levinson Prize from the American Poetry Foundation.
His radio programmes ’A Short History of Stupidity’ and ’The Art of Idleness’ have been broadcast on BBC Radio 3. He is a frequent contributor to The London Review of Books and his work has appeared in a variety of journals and magazines, including: Times Literary Supplement, PN Review, Poetry Review, Planet, New Welsh Review, Poetry Wales, Agenda. He is Chair of the judges of the Oxford Weidenfeld Prize for Translation. Patrick lives in Wales and is a fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford, where he lectures in French.
Previous Gwyn Jones Lectures by Tony Conran, Sean Burke and Adam Philips can be found on the Academi website under ‘Lectures’.