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Sylvia Hikins

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Sylvia Hikins

Sylvia Hikins. Courtesy Art in Liverpool.

Sylvia Hikins is an English poet, publisher, painter, and broadcaster.

Life[]

Hikins was born Sylvia Rice-Smith in London. She lives in Liverpool, England.

She married poet Harold Hikins; they ran Toulouse Press, and collaborated on various poetry and avant-garde art works. The cover of their first collaborative work, A Black Look on the Bright Side, had a photograph of them in a graveyard. They posed nude for the cover of their 2nd, Harold and Sylvia's Book of Revelations.[1]

Hikins has broadcast on radio and TV, and was presenter of First Friday on BBC Radio Merseyside for 7 years.[2] She co-judged and edited the 800 line Liverpool Saga sponsored by Phil Redmond and the Liverpool Daily Post and Echo in celebration of the 800th year of Liverpool's Charter. She was editor of Poetry Merseyside.

She has appeared on British poetry circuits including the Edinburgh Fringe.[2] The poem Journey to the Edge, was written by Hikin after driving a truck to former Yugoslavia]] with Women's Aid for Peace in the midst of a war in that country.

Her paintings have been exhibited in Liverpool and Reykjavik, Iceland.[2]

Recognition[]

Hikins is a winner of the Waterstone's Poetry Prize.[2]

Publications[]

Poetry[]

  • A Black Look on the Bright Side (with Harold R. Hikins). Liverpool: Toulouse Press, 1972.
  • Harold and Sylvia's Book of Revelations (with Harold R. Hikins). Liverpool: Toulouse Press, 1974.
  • Just Me: Poems. Liverpool: Toulouse Press, 1977.
  • The Outcasts. Liverpool, Merseyside : Windows, 1985.
  • Journeys. Neston, Wirral, UK: Songster, 2010.

Novel[]

  • See Out the Crazy Times. Kibworth Beauchamp, UK: Matador, 2015.

Edited[]

  • Roll the Union on: An anthology of Merseyside sights and sounds, in celebration of the 125th anniversary of the Liverpool Trades Council. Liverpool: Toulouse Press, for Liverpool Trades Council, 1973.
  • Frank Deegan, There's No Other Way: An autobiography by Frank Deegan 'one of the Liverpool Irish'. Liverpool: Toulouse, 1980.
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Except where noted, bibliographical information courtesy WorldCat.[3]

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Notes[]

  1. ↑ Stephen Wade, Gladsongs and Gatherings: Poetry and its social context in Liverpool since the 1960s (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2001), 148 Google Books, Web, Jan. 25, 2017.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Sylvia Hikins at the Grosvenor Museum", Chehire Today, August 14, 2013. Web, Jan. 23, 2017.
  3. ↑ Search results = au:Sylvia Hikins, WorldCat, OCLC Online Computer Library Center Inc. Web, Jan. 23, 2017.

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