Jane Duran. Courtesy Enitharmon Press.
Jane Duran (born 1944) is a Cuban-born English poet.
Life[]
Duran was born to an American mother and a Spanish father who had fought with the Republican army in the Spanish Civil war. He fled Spain after Franco's victory but would never talk about his experiences. The themes of silences, loss and exile haunt much of her work. Duran was brought up in the United States and Chile, moving to England in 1966 after graduating from Cornell University.
She lives in London with her Algerian husband and their son.[1]
In 1997 she, and poets Mimi Khalvati, and Pascale Petit, founded the Poetry School in London, to provide structured, high quality teaching programmes for adults to develop their poetry from its beginnings through to advanced level. The Poetry School has grown into the only major national organisation whose solely focused on teaching the art of writing poetry, with established teaching centres throughout England as well as online courses and downloadable courses and activities.[2]
Recognition[]
Breathe Now, Breathe won the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection.
In 2005 Duran received a Cholmondeley Award.
Publications[]
Poetry[]
- Boogie Woogie. London: Hearing Eye, 1991.
- Breathe Now, Breathe. London: Enitharmon Press, 1995.
- Silences from the Spanish Civil War. London: Enitharmon Press, 2002.
- Coastal. London: Enitharmon Press, 2005.
- Graceline. London: Enitharmon Press, 2010.
Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[3]
See also[]
References[]
- ↑ Jane Duran, Poetry Archive.
- ↑ About Us, The Poetry School. Web, Jan. 7, 2014.
- ↑ Search results = au:Jane Duran, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Jan. 7, 2014.
External links[]
- Poems
- "The Room and the Road"
- Jane Duran at Verse Daily (5 poems)
- Jane Duran profile & poems at Poetry in Translation (10 translations)
- Audio / video
- Jane Dura (b. 1944) profile and poems written and audio at The Poetry Archive
- Books
- Jane Duran at Amazon.com
- About
- Jane Duran at Enitharmon Press
- Guardian review of Coastal, 25 February 2006
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