Robyn Bolam

From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia

Robyn Bolam
Born (1953-10-20) 20 October 1953 (age 70)
Newcastle upon Tyne, England
NationalityEnglish
Other namesMarion Lomax
Occupation(s)Poet, editor, librettist

Robyn Bolam (born 1953), formerly known as Marion Lomax, is an English poet, editor, and librettist.[1][2] She writes about topics such as love and loss, about surviving under difficult situations, and about changes within the natural world and in society.[3]

Life and works[edit]

Robyn Bolam was born on 20 October 1953 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Her father, Charles Hall, was a carpenter and her mother, Margaret Ann Bolam, was a nurse.[4] She spent most of her early life in Northumberland, England and began her poetry writing at a very young age. At the age of 15, one of her poems was first published in an anthology titled Next Wave Poets 1, and more of her poems were later published in Next Wave Poets 2.[3]

Bolam married Michael Lomax in August 1974[4] and began publishing her works under the name Marion Lomax. Sometime after her marriage, she wrote a poem called 'Special Delivery', which was about the death of her father. The poem was accepted for a magazine called New Poetry, published by Norman Hidden. Hidden would continue to be a source of encouragement for Bolam until his death in 2006 at the age of 93. Another source of encouragement for Bolam was the poet Peter Porter, who encouraged her to apply for the Eric Gregory Award, for which she applied in 1980, and for which she was awarded in 1981.[3][5] In the same year, she also won first prize in the Cheltenham Poetry Competition.[3] In 1993, she was awarded a Hawthornden Castle Fellowship,[1] and spent a month at the retreat for writers in Hawthornden Castle.[6]

Robyn's first book, The Peepshow Girl, was published in 1989 by Bloodaxe Books, followed by Raiding the Borders in 1996, and New Wings in 2007. Her most recent publish work is Hyem, published in October 2017.[7] She did not begin publishing under the name of Robyn Bolam until December 2000 after her divorce from Michael Lomax in December 1999.[4]

Awards[edit]

  • 1981: Eric Gregory Award[3]
  • 1981: First Prize in Cheltenham Poetry Competition[3]
  • 1993: Hawthornden International Fellowship[1]

Books[edit]

  • Stage Images and Traditions: Shakespeare to Ford (1987, as Marion Lomax)[8][9][10]
  • The Peepshow Girl (1989)
  • Raiding the Borders (1996)
  • Plotting Early Modern London: New Essays on Jacobean City Comedy (2004, contributor)[11][12]
  • New Wings (2007)
  • Hyem (2017)

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Robyn Bolam". The Royal Literary Fund. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  2. ^ Rumens, Carol (15 January 2018). "Poem of the week: Moving On by Robyn Bolam". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
  3. ^ a b c d e f "Robyn Bolam". Robyn Bolam. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  4. ^ a b c "Bolam, Robyn 1953- | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  5. ^ "Robyn Bolam Biography". British Council. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  6. ^ "Hawthornden Castle Fellowship". WritersServices. 4 June 2014. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  7. ^ "Robyn Bolam | Bloodaxe Books". www.bloodaxebooks.com. Retrieved 8 October 2018.
  8. ^ Potter, Lois (1988). "Stage Images and Traditions: Shakespeare to Ford. By Marion Lomax. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987". Theatre Research International. 13 (3): 279–280. doi:10.1017/S0307883300005873. ISSN 1474-0672. S2CID 161234101.
  9. ^ Dymkowski, Christine (1989). "Review of Stage Images and Traditions: Shakespeare to Ford". The Review of English Studies. 40 (157): 119–120. doi:10.1093/res/XL.157.119. JSTOR 516353.
  10. ^ Charney, Maurice (1989). "Stage Images and Traditions: Shakespeare to Ford.Marion Lomax". Renaissance Quarterly. 42 (1): 140–142. doi:10.2307/2861939. ISSN 0034-4338. JSTOR 2861939. S2CID 161990997.
  11. ^ Kay, W. David (2006). "Review of Plotting Early Modern London: New Essays on Jacobean City Comedy". The Modern Language Review. 101 (4): 1088–1089. doi:10.2307/20467049. JSTOR 20467049.
  12. ^ Barroll, Leeds (2005). "Plotting Early Modern London: New Essays on Jacobean City Comedy (review)". Renaissance Quarterly. 58 (3): 1050–1051. doi:10.1353/ren.2008.0788. ISSN 1935-0236. S2CID 191486961.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Robyn_Bolam&oldid=1131229440"