by Administrator | Apr 1, 2022 | News & Press
It’s official. After much debate and controversy on the subject, experts have finally ascertained the precise provenance of poet and Pulp frontman, Jarvis Cocker. And South Yorkshire isn’t going to be happy. “We have looked at many aspects of the bespectacled oddball,...
by Administrator | Feb 14, 2022 | Quick Reads
It has come to our attention at Nottingham City of Literature that Sheffield has again been attempting to lay claim to the Nottingham legend and folk-hero, Robin Hood. Many of Sheffield’s blasphemous arguments are focused on location: that Robin Hood was Robin of...
by Administrator | Nov 12, 2021 | Quick Reads
Eco-poetry (also known as nature poetry or green poetry) has become an increasingly politicised genre within contemporary poetry – and rightfully so. It holds numerous reputations that turn many communities of writers and readers away, such as legacies of colonial,...
by Administrator | Feb 28, 2020 | Quick Reads
Clergyman and cricketer Henry Hayman and his family moved from Nottingham’s St Andrew’s Church to Ruddington after he became vicar there in 1877. A year later they were joined by Hayman’s father-in-law Dr Ebenezer Cobham Brewer who had moved up to Notts after...
by Administrator | Dec 14, 2019 | Quick Reads
In the second of our festive celebration of Notts books which have been instrumental in changing the world for the better, we don Lincoln Green… During the war, the young adult novelist Michael Morpurgo was evacuated to the countryside with his brother to avoid...
