Richard Burns (poet)
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Life and work
Richard Burns (aka Richard Berengarten) was born in LondonLondon
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into a family of musicians. He was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Pembroke College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.The college has over seven hundred students and fellows, and is the third oldest college of the university. Physically, it is one of the university's larger colleges, with buildings from almost every century since its...
and University College London
University College London
University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
. He has lived in Greece, Italy, the UK, the US and former Yugoslavia. His first book of poetry was published in 1967.
Whilst lecturing at Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology (now Anglia Ruskin University) in 1975, he launched and co-ordinated the Cambridge Poetry Festival
Cambridge Poetry Festival
The Cambridge Poetry Festival was an international biennale for poetry held in Cambridge, England, between 1975–1985. The festival was founded in an attempt to combine as many aspects as possible of this form of art...
presenting international poets like John Ashbery
John Ashbery
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, Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg
Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an American poet and one of the leading figures of the Beat Generation in the 1950s. He vigorously opposed militarism, materialism and sexual repression...
, Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann
Rolf Dieter Brinkmann was an important poet of German Pop-Literatur. He also wrote Keiner weiß mehr , a novel of modern family life. His early writing was inspired by Gottfried Benn and the French nouveau roman...
, Ted Hughes
Ted Hughes
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, Michael Hamburger
Michael Hamburger
Michael Hamburger OBE was a noted British translator, poet, critic, memoirist, and academic. He was known in particular for his translations of Friedrich Hölderlin, Paul Celan, Gottfried Benn and W. G. Sebald from German, and his work in literary criticism...
and numerous others.
Poems and poetry books have been translated into more than 20 languages (the poem Volta, presented in issue 9/2009 of The International Literary Quarterly (London) - Richard Burns, Volta: A Multilingual Anthology - into 75. Crna Svetlost (Black Light) was published in Yugoslavia in 1984, Arbol (Tree) in Spain in 1986, and bilingual editions of Tree/Baum (1989) and Black Light/Schwarzes Licht (1996), both translated by Theo Breuer
Theo Breuer
Theo Breuer is a German poet, essayist, editor, translator and publisher.-Life and work:...
, were published in Germany.
His perspectives as a poet combine English, French, Mediterranean, Jewish, Slavic, American and Oriental influences. On his own work Richard Berengarten says: "I would rather think of myself as a European poet who writes in English than as an 'English' poet."
Berengarten is a popular reader of his own poetry, and a dynamic teacher.
Richard Berengarten lives in Cambridge
Cambridge
The city of Cambridge is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England. It lies in East Anglia about north of London. Cambridge is at the heart of the high-technology centre known as Silicon Fen – a play on Silicon Valley and the fens surrounding the...
.
Poetry
- The Blue Butterfly (2006)
- In a Time of Drought (2006)
- For the Living (2004)
- Book With No Back Cover (2003)
- The Manager (2001)
- Against Perfection (1999)
- Croft Woods (1999)
- Half of Nowhere (1998)
- Black Light (1983)
- Roots/Routes (1982)
- Tree (1980)
- Learning to Talk (1980)
- Angels (1977)
- Some Poems (1977)
- Inhabitable Space (1976)
- Double Flute (1972)
- Avebury (1972)
- The Return of Lazarus (1971)
- The Easter Rising (1967)
Prose
- With Peter RussellPeter RussellPeter Russell M.A., D.C.S. is a British author of ten books and producer of three films on consciousness, spiritual awakening and their role in the future development of humanity. He has designed and taught personal development programs for businesses, and has remained a popular public...
in Venice (1996) - Anthony Dorrell: Am Memoir (1989)
- Anthony Rudolf & The Menard Press (1985)
- Keys to Transformation (1981)
Editor
- An Octave for Octavio PazOctavio PazOctavio Paz Lozano was a Mexican writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize for Literature.-Early life and writings:...
(1972) - Ceri RichardsCeri Richards-Biography:Richards was born in the village of Dunvant, near Swansea, the son of Thomas Coslett Richards and Sarah Richards . He and his younger brother and sister, Owen and Esther, were brought up in a highly cultured, working-class environment...
: Drawings to Poems by Dylan ThomasDylan ThomasDylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer, Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 11 January 2008. who wrote exclusively in English. In addition to poetry, he wrote short stories and scripts for film and radio, which he often performed himself...
(1980) - Rivers of Life (1980)
- Roberto Sanesi, In Visible Ink: Selected Poems (1983)
- Homage to Mandelstam (1981)
- Out of Yugoslavia (1994)
Translations
- Aldo Vianello, Time of a Flower
- A. Samarakis, The Flaw (tr. with Peter Mansfield)
- Roberto Sanesi, The Graphic Works of Ceri Richards
- Roberto Sanesi, On the Art of Hemry Moore
- Nasos Vayenas, Biography
Awards
- International Morava Poetry Prize (2005)
- Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary PrizeJewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary PrizeJQ Wingate Prize is an annual British literary prize inaugurated in 1977. It is named after the host Jewish Quarterly and the prize's founder Harold Hyam Wingate...
for Poetry (1992) - Yeats Club Prize (1989)
- Duncan Lawrie Prize (1982)
- Keats Memorial Poetry Prize (1974)
- Eric Gregory AwardEric Gregory AwardThe Eric Gregory Award is given by the Society of Authors to British poets under 30 on submission. The awards are up to a sum value of £24000 annually....
(1972)