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Authority record- P0283
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Michael Henry was born in Liverpool in 1942, both his parents were doctors. Three years later his father got an orthopaedic consultant’s post and the family moved to Cheltenham. Michael Henry was educated at Dean Close Junior School and at Cheltenham College, from where he went on to read Modern Languages (German and French) at The Queen’s College, Oxford. Here, he met and married a fellow modern linguist, June Parrott. After a brief stint in Personnel Management in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Michael Henry got a teaching job in Saskatchewan and he and his wife and small daughter moved to Canada.
Two more daughters were born in Canada, the younger one in Edmonton, Alberta where the family lived for eleven years. Michael Henry’s first literary success was an honourable mention for a poem in the Edmonton Journal Literary Competition. Three years later he won second prize in the same competition. While in Canada he published poems in magazines such as: Waves, Quarry, Event, The Antigonish Review and Canadian Author & Bookman. Selections of his poems were aired on the CBC in 1979 and 1980.
Michael Henry’s first wife died of cancer and he brought his family back to Cheltenham in 1980. He had read about the Arvon courses while in Canada and on one of these in Totleigh Barton, he met writer/artist Tricia Torrington, who became his second wife and a valuable support and critic of his poetry. In 1985 he published a pamphlet ‘Lenten Visitor’, which caught the eye of the publisher of Enitharmon Press. With Enitharmon he published ‘An Ocean in My Ear’ (1988), ‘Panto Sphinx’ (1991), ‘Footnote to History’ (2001) and ‘After the Dancing Dogs’ (2008). His fifth collection, ‘Bureau of the Lost and Found’ (2014) was published by Five Seasons Press.
Michael Henry’s poems have appeared in many magazines including Poetry Review, The North, Acumen, Magma, Tears in the Fence, the Warwick Review and the Interpreter’s House. He has been Poet in Profile and had poems published in Orbis and South. He has also been a regular contributor to Time Haiku. His poems appeared in ‘Light Unlocked’ Christmas Card Poems (Enitharmon 2005), ‘Building Jerusalem’ Elegies on Parish Churches (Bloomsbury 2016) and a Canadian anthology ‘Writing the Terrain’ Travelling through Alberta with the Poets (University of Calgary Press 2005).
In 1989 he was awarded a four-week Hawthornden Fellowship and in 1999 he had a poem commended in the National Poetry Competition. He was also a runner-up twice in the Peterloo Open Poetry Competition (2001 and 2004) and in the Bridport Prize (1993). He came 2nd in the Bedford Open Competition (2006), 1st in the Ware Open Poetry Competition (2007) and 3rd in the Poetry London Competition (2010). In 2011 he won 1st prize for a medical poem in the Hippocrates Prize Open Competition and was short-listed in the 2015 Montreal International Poetry Prize.
Michael Henry and Tricia Torrington are currently reworking and adding to a 1986 pamphlet of theirs ‘Rubin’s Figure’, in which they both write complementary poems on the same or a similar topic.
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Ian Hamilton Finlay was born in Nassau, the Bahamas in 1925. He returned to Glasgow in early childhood and briefly attended Glasgow School of Art
He moved to London, did military service and then returned to Scotland where he worked as a shepherd. He published short stories and plays in the mid 1950s and moved to Edinburgh at the end of the 1950s. He founded the Wild Hawthorn Press, with Jesse McGuffe in 1961, initially publishing work by contemporary poets and artists and eventually exclusively by Finlay
In 1964 he began to produce poems designed to be set in an environment and in 1966 moved to Stonypath with Sue Finlay and began to create the garden there. In 1978 he began “Five Year Hellenisation Plan” for Stonypath Garden , renamed “Little Sparta”. Ian Hamilton Finlay has worked on permanent landscaped installations, with the collaboration of other contributors, in many parts of Europe and the USA and has exhibited world-wide since his first exhibition at the Axiom Gallery, London in 1968
He has been awarded honorary Doctorates by the University of Aberdeen and Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, and was shortlisted for the Turner Prize, Tate Gallery, London in 1985. He has published numerous books and booklets, cards and folding cards, poems and prints and his work is documented in a number of exhibitions and monographs
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Stepmother married to Ernest Park, St Paul's College student 1928 - 1930
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Neville Gabie was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1959. He was the Lead Artist for the Year of the Artist projects, Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail 2000 - 2001. This project resulted from a Year of the Artists residency undertaken by Neville Gabie in the autumn 2000 and spring/ summer of 2001. It was realised with the financial assistance of South West Arts, the Forestry Commission and Arnolfini Collection Trust and the co-ordination by Bruce Allan and Samantha Wilkinson. The project was built upon a permanent work which sees the volume of a tree represented in a variety of states – as a permanent installation in the forest – alongside four event based pieces that were documented and presented in printed form
Recent exhibitions and projects include: Solo Exhibition, Civic Gallery Johannesburg 1998; MOMART Artist in Residence. Tate Gallery, Liverpool 1999-2000; Solo Exhibition Hales Galley, London 2000; Solo Exhibition Kirkby Gallery, with Knowsely Art Service and Liverpool Football Club Museum 2001, “POSTS” published Penguin Books 1999; Saskawa International Photography Prize. Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography 2001
Whilst Artist in Residence at the Tate Gallery. Liverpool, the focus of the work was based around areas of urban regeneration. In an on-going project entitled “An A-Z of Empty Spaces” Neville began to consider the spaces and places, once homes and now left vacant. The objects left behind and notions of “home and belonging”. The tower block, Kenley Close was one such building
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