All 3 entries tagged David Morley

Writers' Archive Live

Writing about web page http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/writingprog/archive/

A message from David Morley about a fantastic resource:

After a number of years in development, the Writers at Warwick Archive is now live on the English Department's website. It contains over 200 recordings of writers in many genres and disciplines, from poets of the 1970s to speakers at the most recent Writers at Warwick events, among them Basil Bunting, Carol Ann Duffy, Seamus Heaney, Germaine Greer, Salman Rushdie and Sarah Waters. You can use an A-Z index of writers, view collections of recordings or browse by date, genre or theme.  The archive can be used only for educational and research purposes, and is free of charge. Go to http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/writingprog/archive/ (you need to sign in),

George Ttoouli : 26 Jan 2010 09:00 |  Tags: Creative Writing David Morley |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

UCU Petition: HEFCE wants to fund commercial research!

Writing about web page http://www.ucu.org.uk/standupforresearch

Just had an email from Warwick's UCU. Apparently HEFCE wants to target a quarter of its funding at research that demonstrates commercial market value. Yuh, and I'm a poet, and as David Morley is so fond of saying, "Poetry is the opposite of money." Wonder where that puts literary criticism about poetry?

This from Sally Hunt, General Secretary for UCU:

STAND UP FOR RESEARCH

Please join the six UK Nobel Laureates and many other leading academics who have already signed UCU's statement opposing proposals from HEFCE to change funding criteria. 

To sign click: http://www.ucu.org.uk/standupforresearch

If implemented, the proposals would mean that 25% of future research funding would be allocated according to its ‘economic and social impact’. 

HEFCE has put these proposals out to consultation and the deadline for submissions is 16 December.

The UCU believes that these ‘impact’ proposals represent an attack on the knowledge process and constitute a threat to the existence of basic research activity in the UK. 

Our statement calls on HEFCE to withdraw these proposals. We intend to submit this statement to the funding council and to publish the list of names.

It is already abundantly clear that these proposals do not have the support of the academic community. 

We need every member to sign this statement and to then pass on the link to colleagues to ensure that the voice of the profession is heard.

Please add your name to the list here and circulate this link among your colleagues:

http://www.ucu.org.uk/standupforresearch

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And this from the introduction to the petition:

The latest proposal by the higher education funding councils is for 25% of the new Research Excellence Framework (REF) to be assessed according to 'economic and social impact'. As academics, researchers and higher education professionals we believe that it is counterproductive to make funding for the best research conditional on its perceived economic and social benefits.

George Ttoouli : 23 Oct 2009 12:59 |  Tags: Capitalists Taking Over Academic Research David Morley Poetry Is The Opposite Of Money Ucu |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem

Static Exile

Writing about web page http://www.pennedinthemargins.co.uk/?p=605

So, like, yeah. Kaboom! Big thanks to my publisher, Tom Chivers, at Penned in the Margins.

Amazon launch date is 9th November, but I'll be reading from the book at the official launch on Sunday 8th November, 8pm til late, at the Slaughtered Lamb.

Facebook event here.

I'll be reading with James Wilkes, who launches his book, Weather a System, on the same night. No weblink just yet for that, but for a preview, we published a short selection of his work over at Gists and Piths over summer. (Also there, as part of our Midlands Poetry Series, we're currently running nine of David Morley's bird poems, designed to be read while listening to the linked bird songs.

We've also two supporting readers, Holly Pester and Simon Turner (who co-edits Gists & Piths with me).

No doubt I'll be doing a reading somewhere in the vicinity of Coventry before the year's out, but if you're heading down to London for Reading Week, drop in. And if you manage to find a t-shirt to wear with a picture of Godzilla on it, I'll buy you a drink.

George Ttoouli : 04 Oct 2009 23:22 |  Tags: David Morley Godzilla James Wilkes Penned In The Margins Poetry |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem