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Kate’s 2¢: “Acts of Revision” by Martyn Bedford
“Acts of Revision” by Martyn Bedford
Wow, this is a weird one. Eventually, the style becomes evident, but it takes a few chapters to catch on what is happening. Bedford does a good job of character development. Gregory Lynn emerges as a brilliant man, but a certifiably mental case.
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Martyn Bedford (born 1959) is a British novelist and literary critic.
Life and career[edit]
He is an alumnus of the University of East Anglia.[1]
The first twelve years of Martyn Bedford’s writing career were spent as a journalist on regional newspapers. His initial book Acts of Revision won the Yorkshire Post “Best First Work” Award.[2] He later became the director of the novel writing programme at the University of Manchester, and is fiction critic for the Literary Review.[3] Currently, Bedford teaches the Creative Writing module at Leeds Trinity University.[4]
In 2008–10, he was Academic Writer-in-Residence, Royal Literary Fund Fellow.[1] Bedford lives in Ilkley, West Yorkshire, with his wife and two daughters.
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Acts of revision DB45805
Bedford, Martyn. Reading time: 7 hours, 58 minutes.
Read by John Horton.
Psychological Fiction
After the death of his mother, reclusive bachelor Gregory Lynn uncovers a trove of old school reports that evoke bitter memories of his childhood. Lynn is thus provoked to wreak vengeance against the oppressive teachers who, he believes, doomed him to a failed life. Strong language, violence, and descriptions of sex.
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Kate’s 2¢: “Best of Prairie schooner: fiction and poetry” by Hilda Raz
“Best of Prairie schooner: fiction and poetry” by Hilda Raz
The variety of personal essays in this anthology is fun to read and gives the reader a glimpse of these writers thoughts.
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Hilda Raz (born 1938) is an American poet, educator, and editor. Raz is the author of over 14 collections of poetry and creative nonfiction.[1] From 1987 to 2010, Raz was the editor-in-chief of Prairie Schooner and English and women’s studies professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In 2021, the University’s Libraries collected her papers in its archives and special collections.[2] Raz’s awards include the 1988 Nebraska Literary Association’s Heritage Association’s Literary Heritage Award, 2017 Nebraska 150 Books honors for Divine Honors and Best of Prairie Schooner, the 2010 Stanley W. Lindberg Award. Poet Kwame Dawes describes Raz as “a big figure in American Poetry and in the business of American poetry. We owe her a lot as a university and a state. If we value poetry in the world, we should give her a tremendous amount of credit.”[3]
Raz is the poetry series editor for the Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series at the University of New Mexico and Basque Press’ Poetry Editor.[4]
Raz’s work Divine Honors focuses on breast cancer.[5] Trans describes Raz’s son Aaron’s gender identity.[6] The Nebraska-centered Letters from a Place I’ve Never Lived: New and Collected Poems 1986-2020 is edited by Kwame Dawes with an introduction by John Kinsella.[7] In 2010 Prairie Schooner published an issue devoted to Raz’s influence.[8
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Best of Prairie schooner: fiction and poetry DBC02025
Raz, Hilda. Reading time: 9 hours, 26 minutes.
Read by Kandra Hahn. A production of Nebraska Library Commission, Talking Book and Braille Service.
Literature
Includes some of the best essays that have appeared in Prairie Schooner since 1980. This anthology of works by poets, novelists and critics will delight readers who seek thought-provoking fiction and poetry. Strong language.
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