1992 labour leadership election
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He published his debut pamphlet, First Offence, in 1954 and his collection, The Rudiment of an Eye, the following year.
Turner found himself briefly working for the BBC before leaving Glasgow to follow literary friends, James Kirkup and Jon Silken, as the 5th Gregory Fellowship at Leeds University from 1960-2. Here, he actively attempted to bring students to poetry, running daily workshops and seminars of popular if severe criticism, often from his flat.
This period was followed with a pair of more satirical and acerbic titles, The Flying Corset (1962) and Fables from Life (1966) while he remained in Leeds, where he became a crime fiction reviewer for the Yorkshire Post.
He turned to writing thrillers of his own in the late 60’s, which brought him a modicum of success, and it was for these he reverted to the less ostentatious name of Bill Turner, which he would later use for his poetry from 1979 onward.
In 1970 he won the Scottish Arts Council Publication Award for his collection The Moral Rocking Horse and returned to Glasgow, where he held a writing fellowship
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Alexander Graham Bell
Canadian-American inventor of telephone (1847–1922)
This article is about the inventor of the telephone. For the song about him, see The Sweet.
Alexander Graham Bell (; born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922)[4] was a Scottish-born[N 1]Canadian-American inventor, scientist, and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885.
Bell's father, grandfather, and brother had all been associated with work on elocution and speech, and both his mother and wife were deaf, profoundly influencing Bell's life's work.[8] His research on hearing and speech further led him to experiment with hearing devices, which eventually culminated in his being awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone, on March 7, 1876.[N 2] Bell considered his invention an intrusion on his real work as a scientist and refused to have a telephone in his study.[9][N 3]
Many other inventions marked Bell's later l
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Last Thursday was the Leeds launch of the Complete Poems of Jon Silkin. Edited by Jon Glover and Kathryn Jenner and published by Carcanet, the book comes in at around 1000 pages – a testament both to the prolificacy of Silkin, and to the hard work and dedication of Jenner and Glover.
It’s a wonderful brick of a book, packed with published and previously unpublished work, with an informative and thoughtful introduction by Glover. Nicholas Lezard picked the Complete Poems as his Guardian paperback of the week in March, and it’s easy to see why. There’s so much to read, and it’s wonderful to be able to appreciate the scope and ambition of Jon Silkin’s vision. His poems bring nature and the environment into dialogue with Anglo-Jewishness and the Holocaust. They consider how a poem might affect the social and political conscience of its reader without losing its aesthetic power. The reader is transported from biblical kingdoms to post-war Britain; across the wide open fields of Iowa, through the Australian outback, along the cherry blossom lined streets of Japan,
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