Tom leonard poet biography worksheets

tom leonard poet biography worksheets

Tom Leonard – The Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation

  • Tom Leonard is a proud Scot who challenges social hierarchy and stereotyping in this poem.

    • Tom Leonard - Poet - Scottish Poetry Library

  • Thomas Anthony Leonard (22 August – 21 December ) was a Scottish poet, writer and critic.

    • Obituary: Tom Leonard, radical writer who championed ...

      Poems () confirmed his reputation as a poet of stylistic versatility and seriocomic power.

    Tom Leonard | Penny's poetry pages Wiki | Fandom

  • Tom Leonard was born in Glasgow in 1944, where he has continued to live ever since.
    • The collection begins with four essays by specialists whose professional life is closely linked with English literature and poetry – an academic, a teacher, an.
    Tom was the youngest of four children - he had two brothers and one sister.
    A tangible alarm made you always untidy, hot, fractious under the heavy, sexy sky.
    Tom Leonard (poet) - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

    Tom Leonard 1944—2018 - Agenda

      Tom Leonard wrote plays, sound poetry, political polemic and a biography of the 19th-century Scottish poet James ‘B.V.’ Thomson, Places of the Mind.

    Tom Leonard: Poetry from Glasgow | Teaching Resources

      A series of tasks looking at Tom Leonard's poetry, which is written in phonetic urban dialect.

    About: Tom Leonard (poet) - DBpedia Association

  • Scottish poet, born in Glasgow, where he was educated at the University.

    • Tom Leonard Biography - (1944– ), Poems, Bunnit. Husslin ...

      Tom Leonard wrote plays, sound poetry, political polemic and a biography of the 19th-century Scottish poet James ‘B.V.’ Thomson, Places of the Mind.

    Leonard, Tom

    Nationality: Scottish. Born: Glasgow, Lanarkshire, 22 August 1944. Education: St. Monica's Primary School and Lourdes Secondary School, Glasgow; Glasgow University, M.A. in English and Scottish literature. Family: Married in 1971; two children. Career: Has worked in a variety of mainly clerical jobs; organized, with Joan Hughson, sound-poetry festivals Sound and Syntax, 1978, and Poetsound '84, both in Glasgow. Writer-in-residence, Renfrew District Libraries, 1986–1989; Glasgow University and Strathclyde University, 1991; Bell College of Technology, Hamilton, 1993–94. Awards: Scottish Arts Council bursary, 1971, 1974, 1978; Saltire Society Scottish Book of the Year award for Intimate Voices, 1984; Arts Council Autumn Book award for Places of the Mind, 1993. Address: 56 Eldon Street, Glasgow G3 6NJ, Scotland.

    Publications

    Poetry

    Six Glasgow Poems. Glasgow, Midnight Press, 1969.

    A Priest Came On at Merkland Street. Glasgow, Midnight Press, 197