File FLP/1/1/39 - Jackie Litherland

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FLP/1/1/39

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Jackie Litherland

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  • 1999 - 2010 (Creation)

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S.J. Litherland's work encompasses love, politics, loss, and philosophy. She has six published collections of poetry, The Long Interval (Bloodaxe 1986), Flowers of Fever (Iron Press 1992), The Apple Exchange (Flambard 1999), The Work of the Wind (Flambard 2006), The Homage (Iron Press 2006) and The Absolute Bonus of Rain (Flambard 2010).

Her highly praised The Work of the Wind is a four-part book about her years with the poet Barry MacSweeney and The Homage is a sequence of poems about cricket and former England captain Nasser Hussain which was nominated for Cricket Book of the Year. Her work has appeared in various anthologies, most notably in New Women Poets (Bloodaxe 1993), Forward Book of Poetry 2001 and North by North East (Iron 2006). She was co-editor of The Poetry of Perestroika (Iron) and has edited many books. She has received two Northern Writers' Awards, 1994, 2000. Originally from Warwickshire, she has lived in Durham City since 1965, bringing up a son and daughter and working as a journalist (as Jackie Levitas). Now a part-time tutor and mentor in creative writing, she is also a founding member of Vane Women writers collective and press. She has four grandsons.

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Consists of reviews and a jacket cover proof relating to the poetry collection The Apple Exchange. Also includes photographs, reviews, correspondence and publicity material relating to the poetry collection The Work of the Wind . Also includes reviews of the poetry collection The Absolute Bonus of Rain.

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Restricted for 75 years under the terms of the United Kingdom's Data Protection Act 1998 as material potentially contains personal information about living individuals. To make a subject access request in relation to personal data held in this material relating to you, or to apply to view using a Section 33 exemption (for research, statistical or historical purposes only), please contact mailto:lib-specenq@ncl.ac.uk .

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