A huge ‘thank you’ to Clive Allen, writes committee member Viv Apple. Clive (who writes as C.J. Allen) is a poet and the winner of many awards and prizes for his poetry, not least first prize earlier this year in the Alan Sillitoe Memorial Poetry Competition. Read his winning entry, ‘Poems to My Horse’, here. [...]
Read More →What do Karel Reisz’s classic 1960 film version of ‘Saturday Night and Sunday Morning’, all-female punk band The Smears and acerbic rap/rant outfit The Sleaford Mods have in common? Well, they all have a Nottingham connection, they all have attitude to burn, and they’re all appearing at the Nottingham Contemporary on Saturday 30th June. It’s [...]
Read More →The posters for Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 adaptation of Vladimir Nabokov’s novel famously asked “How did they ever make a movie of ‘Lolita’?” When word emerged of the Musicworks production – which has just finished its triumphant premiere at the Nottingham Playhouse – I must admit that a similar question went through my mind: “How will [...]
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The work of Alan Sillitoe is being featured on The Space – an experimental digital arts collaboration between Arts Council England and the BBC.
Read More →The Alan Sillitoe Season 2012 kicked off in fine style last Saturday with good food, wine flowing freely, and the wit and amiability of our guest of honour, award-winning crime novelist John Harvey. Hmmm, maybe “kicked off” is a bad choice of phrase, since John very nearly didn’t make it. Now London-based, but back on [...]
Read More →Exciting times afoot with a major new project funded by the Arts Council: The Space. Committee member James Walker has the inside information: What is The Space? The Space is a project funded by the Arts Council in collaboration with the BBC. On 1 May, it will go live online at www.thespace.org until 30 October. [...]
Read More →Alfreton Road, Ilkeston Road and Derby Road – the A610, A609 and A6200 respectively – converge, a mile or two from Nottingham city centre, in a misshapen rectangle known as Canning Circus. Drive up there today and the main focal points will be the Sir John Borlase Warren pub, Bar Seven, a fancy dress hire [...]
Read More →The intimate space of the Nottingham Contemporary’s café-bar was host to last Friday’s prize-giving event. It was an evening of poetry and music. David Sillitoe, our compere for the evening, set the ball rolling by reading a selection of Alan’s poetry, a poignant reminder that he was an accomplished poet as well an as acclaimed [...]
Read More →The Alan Sillitoe Poetry Competition closed to entrants on 10January, and the adjudication – by Ruth Fainlight – was completed by 31 January. So why the delay in announcing the winners? Well, not only did we want to generate some Hitchcock-like suspense, but we also felt that a competition boasting £400 in prize money and [...]
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Alan Sillitoe Memorial Committeee Member James Walker talks to Sarah Julian at BBC Radio Nottingham about the Alan Sillitoe digital trail being developed as part of the BBCs new multimedia platform; ‘The Space’.
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