Dear all,
I am writing in response to a couple of mails from Richard Caddel, and
Elizabeth James. I hope you all find the information below useful.
Please feel free to get back to me if you have any questions.
Chadwyck-Healey Ltd. will be launching Donegal-bred poet Mathew
Sweeney into cyberspace on National Poetry Day tomorrow. The online
Writer-in-Residence is a new, permanent website which offers everyone
the chance to read and hear selected poems by a featured writer.
Budding writers can use the site to discuss poetry and how they write
it, or send in their own poems for online publication and criticism
Unlike other Internet Poetry sites, the Writer-in-Residence pages are
run by an established poet. Mathew Sweeney, who has published seven
volumes of his own poetry, will be the first resident. A different
writer will follow in six months' time.
Mathew will post one of his own poems each week, accompanied by an
audio file of his own reading that users can listen to as they read.
Every fortnight he will start discussion sessions with a Masterclass
on creative writing. In addition, the Poetry Surgery gives everyone
the chance to submit their own poems and Matthew will select one for
comment each week. The first poem he has selected, 'Baby Colostomy'
written by Jill Copeland-Cowley, is definitely worth looking at.
You can join in the discussion by using the link on the Literature
Online Home page at:
http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk
This component of Literature Online is free to all users. We would
welcome feedback ont he new site and encourage everyone to
participate.
E. James wrote:
> A commercial service that puts large resources of
>full-text literature at the disposal of those who buy or (now) annually
>subscribe, (including lots of educational institutions who can network
>it for free use by staff & students) and which also, through the element
>they call the "Master Index", is going to start pointing its customers
>at other literary websites, including free & independent ones, that it
>deems of a suitable quality.
In response to this, we would be extremely grateful to receive
submissions from the public leading us to sites which feature
electronic texts or literary resources. You can do so either by
writing to me directly, or by using the webmaster link which is part
of Literature Online.
Thanks for your attention, and I hope to hear from you all soon!
Nikki Madan
Webmaster for Literature Online
Chadwyck-Healey Ltd.
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