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POETRY: BOOKS PUBLISHED

Four collections and one audiotape:

The Important Man Northern House Pamphlet Poets No 14, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1971

Heart's Desire Manchester, Carcanet Press, 1978
SBN 85635 238 1
paperback, 1979 same SBN
Selected Poems Manchester, Carcanet Press 1985 ISBN 0-85635-598-4

The Red-Headed Pupil Manchester, Carcanet Press 1994
ISBN 1 85754 086 7
Audio: Jeffrey Wainwright Canto Modern Poets,
Canto Publications, 1984

Out of the Air Manchester, Carcanet Press, 1999,
ISBN 85754-415-3

Clarity or Death! Manchester, Carcanet Press, 2008, ISBN 978 1 85754 912 6

TRANSLATIONS

From the French, mainly of drama for productions on stage and radio
Charles Péguy, The Mystery of the Charity of Joan of Arc
adaptation by J-P Lucet for Comédie Française:
RSC Fringe 1984 with Patricia Routledge & Josette Simon;
Almeida Jan 1986 with Patricia Routledge & Tilda Swinton;
BBC Radio 3 Dec 1988 with Patricia Routledge & Harriet Walter; all productions by A J Quinn

Text published with Introduction, and an Afterword by Marina Warner, Carcanet Press, 1986, ISBN 0-85635-690-5


Paul Claudel, The Satin Slipper BBC Radio 3, Dec 1988,
with Alex Jennings, Emily Richard & John Shrapnel; produced by Peter Kavanagh

Pierre Corneille, Le Cid BBC Radio 3, June 1994
with Kate Buffery, Imogen Stubbs & Nicholas Farrell; produced by Peter Kavanagh;
repeated BBC Radio 3, June 1996


Bernard-Marie Koltès
In the Solitude of Cotton Fields (Dans la Solitude des Champs de Coton) for The Royal Exchange/BBC Radio 'Koltès: A European Playwright' Workshop, 10 November 1996; part broadcast in Night Waves, BBC Radio 3, 14 November 1996.


Stage première by Magpie Theatre, State Theatre of South Australia, director Benedict Andrews, May 1997.

Broadcast BBC Radio 3, 7 March 1999. Producer Melanie Harris. Repeated 1 August 1999.

Stage production, Actors Touring Company, London, Autumn 2001


New York production, Horizon Theatre Company,
Summer 2002

In the Solitude of Cotton Fields (Dans la solitude des champs de coton) republished in Koltès Plays: 2, London: Methuen, December 2003, pp. 181-215, ISBN 0-413-77375-2.

Also:
Translations of poems by Jacques Darras & Suzanne Jacob in La Traductière, Paris, 1983

Translations of some poems by Philippe Jaccottet, faire part no 10-11, Valence, Autumn 1987


Les Amours de Jacques le Fataliste by Denis Diderot, stage adaptation by Francis Huster. unpublished

WRITINGS ON POETRY

CLARITY OR DEATH!

Some poems from and background to CLARITY OR DEATH! published July 2008 by CARCANET.

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