New year, New writers

Monday, 26 January 2009

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Poet, Tony Lopez A new monthly series of evening performances dedicated to reading continues at the Dartington Campus until April, featuring two writers at each event.

Presenting the work of some of the most innovative and dynamic writers currently working in the UK, the series offers a rare opportunity to engage with the possibilities and preoccupations of writing of the highest political and linguistic rigour.

Poets, Marianne Morris and Tony Lopez will continue the series on Thursday 26 February in Studio 3 from 7.30pm.

Marianne was born in Canada, raised in London and studied at Cambridge University before founding Bad Press in 2002 along with Jow Lindsay and Jonathan Stevenson.

Tony has received awards from The Wingate Foundation, The Society of Authors and the Arts & Humanities Research Council. His most recent poetry collections are Covers (Salt, 2007) and False Memory (Salt, 2003), the latter having featured as a book of the year in the New Statesman and the Guardian. He teaches at the University of Plymouth, where he was appointed its first Professor of Poetry in 2000.

For further information about MA Performance Writing at University College Falmouth's Dartington Campus, visit www.falmouth.ac.uk/performancewriting, email admissions@dartington.ac.uk or telephone Admissions on 01803 862224

University College Falmouth is the only independent Higher Education institution in Cornwall with the powers to award degrees in its own name. It has two campuses in Cornwall - at Woodlane in Falmouth and Tremough in Penryn (which it owns, and jointly manages with the University of Exeter) - and a third campus at Totnes in Devon, following its merger with Dartington College of Arts in 2008.

This merger created a new institution focusing on the expansion of Falmouth's expertise in Art, Design and Media and Dartington's expertise in Choreography, Music, Theatre, Art and Writing. The Devon-based courses will relocate to a new, high-specification Performance Centre at Tremough in 2010, paving the way for a new specialist Arts University in Cornwall by 2012, that will be unique to the South West.

The College is a founding partner in the Combined Universities in Cornwall (CUC), a unique initiative to promote regional economic regeneration through Higher Education, funded mainly by the European Union, the South West Regional Development Agency, and the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with support from Cornwall County Council.

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For further information about University College Falmouth, please contact Jilly Easterby MCIPR, Head of Public Affairs, Telephone: 01326 213792; or email: jilly.easterby@falmouth.ac.uk

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