Poet in residence appointed for Rydal Mount
Kieron Winn
The first person to be appointed poet in residence at Rydal Mount will take up his place next month.
Kieron Winn will spend a week at the home of William Wordsworth, writing and meeting visitors to the house.
Kieron’s first collection of poems, The Mortal Man, was published in 2015.
He has twice won the University of Oxford’s most valuable literary award, the English Poem on a Sacred Subject Prize.
Kieron studied English at Christ Church, Oxford, where he was awarded a doctorate for a thesis on Herbert Read and TS Eliot.
The Making of Rodin at Tate Modern review: a master of modernity Melanie McDonagh
It’s disconcerting to find Rodin in Tate Modern. We are used to seeing him in Tate Britain down the river – The Kiss has been brought here for this new exhibition – or in the V&A. He does come within Tate Modern’s remit in period (he died in 1917) but he’s one of the earliest artists to be shown there. His representational figurative sculpture will be a different experience for visitors after the abstract and modernist art.
Yet if Rodin looks different here, that’s good – it makes us see his modernity. Herbert Read, the great critic, began his book on Modern Sculpture with Rodin. This exhibition features his works in plaster and clay and his watercolours – the only marble work here is The Kiss, and one of the few bronzes is the wonderful figure of an athlete that started his career with a useful controversy about whether it was really the cast of a man.
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