Education
King"s College London.
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Stolen Love Behaviour by John Stammers (2005-02-04)
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Interior Night (Picador Poetry) by John Stammers (2010-04-02)
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Panoramic Lounge Bar by John Stammers (2001-04-06)
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Stolen Love Behaviour
(John's second collection consolidates his reputation as o...)
John's second collection consolidates his reputation as one of the most unusual and intelligent imaginations now at work, and will build on the astonishing success of Panoramic Lounge-Bar, winner of the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. It's a mature book, with more lyricism and allusion than PLB, but no less witty for it; powerful, moving and sometimes disturbing, it's a journey through a labyrinth of memory, history and strange anecdote, written in Stammers's trademark style -- literary yet hip and immediate, with a real steetwise vibe, often English in its forms but transatlantic in its voice, and never less than wholly rivetting.
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John Stammers
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He took up writing poetry in his 30s, joining Michael Donaghy’s City University poetry group. Stammers now teaches at City Literature. In 2002/03 he was appointed Judith East Wilson Fellow at the University of Cambridge.
He has edited Magma magazine and was convenor of the British and Irish Contemporary Poetry Conference.
His work has also appeared in London Review of Books, The New Republic, Poetry Daily (United States), Poetry Review and various broadsheets. Cressida Connolly in The Daily Telegraph asks: "Is it possible to be a first-rate romantic poet and yet make mention of Ovaltine, Plexiglas, Rock Hudson, a macramé plant-holder, visiting the chiropodist and wiping dog-mess off a shoe? In the case of John Stammers, the answer is a resounding yes.
Stammers"s voice is idiosyncratic, at once tender and funny, fresh and familiar."
Critic Stephen Burt reviews Stolen Love Behaviour: "We know that a talented 21st-century English poet (Paul Farley, say) can render the 21st-century city in quick, ironic, breezy sketches. And we know that an extraordinarily talented 21st-century London poet (let"s call him, for convenience, Mark Ford) can pursue the opacities of modern sociolects along with the bafflements of adult life.
Can the same 21st-century poet do both? In cityscapes, domestic interiors, and briskly ironized variations on inherited language-games, John Stammers" second collection tries, and largely succeeds.
His less ambitious poems capture moments in (or after) failed romance (less often, successful ones), or days spent in alien urban sites: the more ambitious works explore interiorities, wishes, hypotheticals, "director"s cuts of the lives we"ve never led,/ unreleased and maiden from the archives.".
Achievements
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2001 Forward Prize for Best First Collection (for Panoramic Lounge-Bar) 2001 Whitbread Poetry Award shortlisted (for Panoramic Lounge-Bar) 2005 Waterstones Best New Poetry (for "Stolen Love Behaviour") 2005 Poetry Book Society Choice (for "Stolen Love Behaviour") 2005 Forward Prize for Best Collection (shortlist) (for "Stolen Love Behaviour") 2005 TeamSpeak Eliot Award (shortlist)(for "Stolen Love Behaviour").
Works
book
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Stolen Love Behaviour
(John's second collection consolidates his reputation as o...)
- Stolen Love Behaviour by John Stammers (2005-02-04)
- Interior Night (Picador Poetry) by John Stammers (2010-04-02)
- Panoramic Lounge Bar by John Stammers (2001-04-06)
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Stolen Love Behaviour
Education
Awards
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Whitbread Poetry award; Forward Prize 2001 Forward Prize for Best First Collection (for Panoramic Lounge-Bar) 2001 Whitbread Poetry Award shortlisted (for Panoramic Lounge-Bar) 2005 Waterstones Best New Poetry (for 'Stolen Love Behaviour') 2005 Poetry Book Society Choice (for 'Stolen Love Behaviour') 2005 Forward Prize for Best Collection (shortlist) (for 'Stolen Love Behaviour') 2005 TS Eliot Award (shortlist)(for 'Stolen Love Behaviour')Whitbread Poetry award; Forward Prize 2001 Forward Prize for Best First Collection (for Panoramic Lounge-Bar) 2001 Whitbread Poetry Award shortlisted (for Panoramic Lounge-Bar) 2005 Waterstones Best New Poetry (for 'Stolen Love Behaviour') 2005 Poetry Book Society Choice (for 'Stolen Love Behaviour') 2005 Forward Prize for Best Collection (shortlist) (for 'Stolen Love Behaviour') 2005 TS Eliot Award (shortlist)(for 'Stolen Love Behaviour')